Out of my comfort zone
Hello Everyone! My name is Juliana and ETEC 522 is my 7th course.
I have had a very varied career. I have worked as a research technician in the biotech field and I have also worked as a biosafety associate in the laboratory safety field. I have also completed my Bachelors in Education degree in Secondary Science.
I enjoy teaching in the adult education environment and I am intrigued by serious games and Multi-User Learning Environments (MUVEs). I am also interested in creating appropriate assessments for blended and completely online environments and I wonder why the MET program does not have a course dedicated to the topic. I do hope that they create a course in assessments soon as I would love to take it 🙂 !
I look forward to this course as I am interested in seeing what will help me be a “successful pioneer” in this field. As my background was mostly in the sciences, I have never had the opportunity to analyze businesses or had the opportunity to create a venture of my own. This sounds like a daunting process to me, but I hope to learn a lot from the experience.
My other interests do include food. Not cooking food, but eating food! I enjoy trying the different restaurants here in Vancouver and I have created a website dedicated to this. Juliana’s Favorite Restaurants (The Vancouver Chapter) only states some of my top picks, but I do hope to one day create a more comprehensive site showing all of my dining experiences.
Looking forward to working with you all!
Juliana.
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David William Price 5:53 pm on September 6, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Juliana
Check out http://www.jason.org…. an interesting and free middle school science teaching resource that combines curriculum, games, and a whole backend system for teachers to manage curriculum, give assessments, etc. The system allows you to create student, teacher and guest accounts, each with different features.
andrea 11:52 am on September 7, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Juliana,
Games are such an interesting area for online learning exploration and ventures. The possibilities are endless! I also agree with your point about a course on assessment in MET – I’d be interested in something like that too.
Andrea
P.S. Thanks for the link to your resaurant site. Unfortunately, it looks like the Red Door is changing! I live in the neighborhood and noticed it will soon be Luke’sCorner Bar & Kithen.
mcquaid 5:02 pm on September 7, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi, Juliana.
Love the look of your food site… I don’t recall seeing wix.com before. I may use it some day! I keep a beer blog now (have for just about a year), and use blogger to do it: http://www.peibeerguy.com
I’m glad you mentioned serious games. As a teacher who’s also a gamer, it’s a natural fit for me. I’m always surprised a what can be “sneaked” into a game, and what students can glean from them (Cold War history from Black Ops, for example… not really a “serious” game, but still…). Sims like Civilization Revolution (or a tweak thereof) have lots of cool possibilities. Games like the Assassin’s Creed series offer some impressive amounts of history.
Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!
kstooshnov 12:56 pm on September 8, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hello Juliana,
Great to see your restaurant blog, and I will have to show it to my wife, who may ask you for a link in hers (she writes about food in her Japanese blog and is always interested in what’s being served in Vancouver). Also very keen to see what develops with blended learning and on-line assessment. If UBC doesn’t offer this much needed course, perhaps one of us should design one, and sell it back to the university! 😉 As for the serious gaming, all the exposure I have had to James P. Gee has me convinced that those who play have the “level up” advantage over students in more traditional school settings. Looking forward to learning with you in this course.
Kyle