ETEC 540 Text Technologies

A day with an iPhone.html It was a struggle for me to create a futuristic speculative narrative. So, I adapted and created something that was meaningful to my own learning: creating a speculative narrative that imagined, instead, how a teenager might experience their relationship with media, education, text and technology today. Inspired by Dr. Shannon Vallor’s mirror metaphor, I created my narrative to speculate a teenager of today because I think this is relevant for me as an educator today and because it was an entry point to look at where…read more

My microblog was made using the message app on my iPhone. I used the prompt, Education is not about…The statement I generated wasn’t a reflection of ideas in blogs, academic articles, or magazines, etc., and I wonder if this was because I created it using Message?  Would it have turned out differently if I used a platform such as Twitter or Instagram? The statement didn’t sound like me because I don’t think it really makes sense or offers a complete thought. Many of the prompts given were often quite simplistic…read more

So, no… I didn’t get to the end of the game. I tried to stay on there, but I eventually became bored and felt that I had had enough so just decided to leave it and do something else with my time. This would be true for any other website that I would look and might potentially do something similar. If I ever am on a website that has this many pop-ups and links (which is rare), I just leave and choose to look up whatever I am searching for…read more

When analyzing the visualizations and reflecting on the implications and outcomes of their generations, I couldn’t help but be reminded on my own experience with choosing the tracks and I wondered how others selections were impacted because of the given and limited track selections themselves? For example, when looking at the number of edges between Pamela Treadway and Nataliia Kudryk, the information shows that they link on four tracks: 1, 16, 18, and 27. However, I remember that I choose many of the songs just to make the required 10,…read more

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