{"id":4880,"date":"2011-09-06T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2011-09-07T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:02:37","slug":"hello-from-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/09\/06\/hello-from-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4880 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/09\/06\/hello-from-montreal\/stjeanbaptitsteday2011sml\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/files\/2011\/09\/stjeanbaptitsteday2011sml-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4883\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4883'>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the giant puppets at St-Jean Baptiste day 2011\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/09\/06\/hello-from-montreal\/laronde3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/files\/2011\/09\/laronde3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4891\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4891'>\n\t\t\t\tThe day after my birthday I risked my life on the Goliath with a 52m initial drop and speeds up to 110km\/h. You can see it in the background.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I\u2019m a full-time Master\u2019s student in the Educational Technology program at Concordia University in Montreal. I&#8217;m also the head teaching assistant for an Educational Communication course and an Editorial Assistant for the IEEE journal <em>Transactions on Professional Communication<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Previously, I studied journalism at Carleton, law at Western, and practised business law in Ottawa for a number of years, specifically software licensing. During the dot-com boom, I drafted a lot of contracts and negotiated for start-ups with such giants as HP, IBM, Cisco, and Synopsys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I am researching in the area of managing \u00a0anxiety to improve performance. I am examining each level in education: design, presentation and learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I created YouTube videos out of an anxiety management course I designed for my HPT class. I&#8217;ve only got 2 out of the 4 videos up so far. Someone embedded the videos into an anxiety management website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anxietymanagement101.com\/v1-anxiety-management-free-simple-effective\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.anxietymanagement101.com\/v1-anxiety-management-free-simple-effective\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I also published a chapter from a literary novel in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement. The novel is finished but could use another round of polish:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue4\/writings-fiction-price.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue4\/writings-fiction-price.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I enjoy biking and spent time in a biking group with a former Tour de France racer.<\/p>\n<p>I am taking ETEC522 for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n<p>* I want to take a &#8220;big picture&#8221; course with real-world applications<\/p>\n<p>* I want to experience a point of view external to my own university<\/p>\n<p>* I want to have a university-level online experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a full-time Master\u2019s student in the Educational Technology program at Concordia University in Montreal. I&#8217;m also the head teaching assistant for an Educational Communication course and an Editorial Assistant for the IEEE journal Transactions on Professional Communication. 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