ETEC 540 Text Technologies

10 Selected Songs: Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38 Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. Glenn Gould, piano. 4:48 Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55 “Melancholy Blues,” performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05 “Johnny B. Goode,” written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38 Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, “The Fairie Round,” performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort…read more

On Friday, I attended Classrooms to Communities 2021 Provincial Conference for my choice of professional development. This year’s focus was “listening to the land, giving voice to the sea: stories to nourish hope and resiliency” (C2C, n.d.). One of the workshops I attended was “A Holistic Approach to Soundscaping”. Inspired from teachings within the First People’s Principles of Learning, a Holistic Approach to Soundscaping was an invitation for whole-body listening, or listening with all of the senses. Presenter and Aboriginal Education Coordinator, Faye O’Neil, explained that whole body listening creates…read more

When composing this emoji story, the work I chose was very intentional. Many other options that I could have chosen felt very complex and I felt I would be even more limited with how much emotion, history, and/or context I could provide with only emojis. With that, I also chose the work based on how much I liked the work itself, as well as the plot, as I figured liking it would also help me to visualize and retell the story more easily. I started with the title because it…read more

M5 Twine Task.html When I first read “Twine task”, my initial thought was: are we going to make something out of or with twine? I didn’t feel quite as silly when I learned another friend and classmate also thought a similar thing. We had both connected “twine” to our original understanding of the word: a string. I immediately connected to this as another example of Jonathan Berkowitz’s insights on linguistic change. I now know that for this task “twine” was not referring to a jute string, but rather the linking…read more

          Currently, the majority of my writing is typed, but I also write a lot by hand. I found the physical task easy because I love writing by hand (whether printing, cursive, or calligraphy). However, it was the task of choosing something to write about that, for me, posed more of a challenge. Normally, my hand-written creations are shorter and more personal in nature. With the requirement of approximately 500 words, and with my prose being posted on a virtual domain, I wanted to choose a…read more