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ETEC 540 – Task 10: Attention Economy

Introduction In this assignment, I reflect on how the design choices in the game “User Inyerface” influenced my behaviour as a user and heightened my awareness of manipulative design practices in online spaces. The “Attention Economy” Digital platforms are constantly competing for our attention. The “attention economy” describes the ongoing,…

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ETEC 540 – Task 9: Network Assignment Using Golden Record Curation Quiz Data

BACKGROUND INFO: TERMINOLOGY NETWORK STRUCTURE AND GRAPH THEORY Vertices, vertex, nodes = an entity and we can ascribe some value to; each person or song in the visualization is a node; they have static properties that can be quantified. Edges, links, ties, relations = can be defined as a relation…

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ETEC 540 – Task 8: Golden Record Curation Assignment

What is the Golden Record? Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 and are currently the most distant human-made objects from Earth and the first to enter interstellar space. On board each Voyager is a Golden Record containing music, voice greetings, photos, as well as images etched onto…

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ETEC 540 – Task 7: Mode-Bending (What’s in your bag?)

Your browser does not support the video tag. If the animation doesn’t appear to be working, follow this link Introduction Writing today is increasingly transmodal – a process where different media such as text, sound, and image interact to create new forms of meaning (Murphy, 1969, as cited in New…

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ETEC 540 – Task 4: You say Puh·tay·tow, I say Pih·tah·toh

For Task 4, I selected the Potato Printing assignment, blending my love of crafts with coursework. I chose the word “IDEAS” as it reflects both what one could carry in a tote bag and what a sketchbook represents. Preparation Using supplies on hand, I gathered yellow and sweet potatoes, vintage…

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ETEC 511 – Truth and Reconciliation Assignment

1. Identify a significant corpus (body of texts, or singular text) of searchable educational history-related documents in your own locale or one you are most interested in (i.e. B.C., Ontario, South Africa). You can choose a fictionalized account, non-fiction narrative, historical text, a set of related documents, a report, etc.…

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ETEC 511 – Module 1: Thinking about Usability (Mini-Assignment)

Instructions: For each of Issa and Isaias’s (2015) seven “Usability Criteria” (p. 33), explain each criterion in your own words and provide a concrete/practical example of each. Draw from your own experience and try to find educational examples where you can. 1. Learnability Describe in your own words: How easy…

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ETEC 511 – IP #3 – Algorithms

Introduction Google impacts many people around the world everyday and could rightfully be called the world’s most powerful company (Jack, 2017). Google’s products include online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and more (Google, 2024). When most people search for information on the internet, Google’s…

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