Assignment Instructions: This assignment entails playing a game solo and taking notes, then watching someone online play the same game via Twitch or YouTube, taking notes as well. As this is a bit more elaborate assignment, please see instructions below. Your job is to act as a researcher, taking notes…
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Intellectual Production #8: Working alone–and for some of you this is re-reading (no harm in that!), read chapters 1-3 and do at least 5 of the exercises Fullerton suggests. For those of you who this is not a new reading reflect on your past work, and choose different exercises –…
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“Cats and portals: Video games, learning, and play.” (Gee, 2008) 3 Descriptive Sentences Gee (2008) explores how well-designed video games are a form of play that support deep learning, much like how cats engage with the world by actively playing, interacting, and exploring. Games such as Portal frame play as…
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Link to video presentation (opens in YouTube) Link to demo of Plan, Prep, Perform (built with Claude.ai) ETEC 565 – Final Project
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( Sara’s original post can be found here ) I really enjoyed reading Sara’s reflection for Task 6: *An Emoji Story*. I’m fairly sure she was summarizing the CBC show *Schitt’s Creek*, the hilarious Canadian sitcom. Coincidentally, I started rewatching the series again tonight – it is becoming a holiday…
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(BL’s original post can be found here) BL’s mode-bending assignment is such an insightful example of how meaning totally shifts when you move from one mode to another. I really appreciated how BL didn’t simply translate their “What’s in your bag/phone” task into another form, but instead reconsidered the purpose…
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(James’ original post can be found here) I really enjoyed reading James’ post for Task 3 – Voice to Text. I didn’t do this task as part of my assignments so I was curious to see what the task was about and how others approached it. I also have not…
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Describing Communication Technologies Below is my final project for ETEC 540 and describing communication technologies. I chose to follow the evolution of the letter “A” through time and how the evolution of a single letter has impacted our culture, education, and literacy. Click the image below to begin the presentation…
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For this assignment, I reflected on Boroditsky’s (2017) talk, the power of language in our society, and how I use language in my part-time role as a high school volleyball coach. As a monolingual speaker, I don’t have multiple languages to draw examples from, so I turned to…
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** Adrianne’s original post can be found here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/akraft/2025/11/16/text-to-image/ For this linking assignment, I reflected on Adrianne’s post and their “Studio Ghibli-style” text to image prompt. Adrianne used the prompt in Microsoft Copilot: “Create an image of an inclusive makerspace in studio Ghibli style.” The resulting image was surprisingly…
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