I recently completed a UBC Student Mental Health survey that was created by Dr. Daniel Vigo in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at UBC. The goal of the survey is to help better understand the challenges UBC students are facing, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. UBC is hoping…
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Concept mapping, or mind mapping, is one of my favourite ways to organize myself with any project. It allows me to see relationships and connections among my topics that I wasn’t able to notice when just thinking about things or writing them in paragraph or point form. Mind mapping helps…
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During our ETEC 512 Online Learning Conference, many different educational software programs were used by our classmates. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but I thought I’d put them in one spot for future reference for myself and to share with others. Here are some of the programs…
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Here is a list of resources that may be helpful on your truth and reconciliation journey. This list will be updated regularly with new resources. WEBSITES Indigenous Foundations – Terminology https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/terminology/ Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre – https://irshdc.ubc.ca/ UBC Faculty of Education Truth & Reconciliation – https://educ.ubc.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-2023/ National…
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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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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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Disclaimer This is the first of five intellectual productions (IPs) for this course. IPs are completed individually and worth 30% of our final grade. I chose to complete this assignment in writing form to answer the four questions provided for us. Maybe in the future I will do something more…
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Disclaimer: Due to the technology limitations of this blog post, I was unable to create a chart to compare the answers to the questions and my references are not using true APA formatting, as they lack hanging indents. 1. First and in your own words: Who were these people, and…
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Group Project Proposal: “EduConnect” – Technical Support Community for Educators Around the World Imagine this scenario: You’re teaching a new project this semester and integrating coding into your middle school history class for the first time. Students in your class are making interactive timelines for various ancient civilizations in Scratch.…
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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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