Everyone should have their final grades for all assignments in ETEC522 via email by now. Please let me know immediately if you haven’t got yours. Questions welcome. It was a pleasure getting to know you all, and I’ll enjoy even more being kept up to date on all of your ventures going forward. I realize […]
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David Vogt
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David Vogt
Something ventured…
Welcome to December everyone, and the conclusion of our learning adventure. As per my earlier message, you have your A1 & A2 grades now, and should have the balance of your grades by the end of the week. I’m thoroughly enjoying the grading process, as I do ETEC522 and MET overall, because all of you […]
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David Vogt
Completion Schedule
Nice action on the Venture Forum! Just to let you know, I’ve done my second review of your A2 assignments and you should expect your grades on these later today. I’ve also done a first review of your A3 assignments, so you should expect these back to you, along with your A4 work, by the […]
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David Vogt
The Home Stretch!!!
Hi everyone – Just to say THANK YOU that the Venture Forum is now live with all of your pitches, and you should feel that you`ve now accomplished the lion`s share of your work for the course, so BRAVO! Via separate email you each should have received your review assignment for this week – the […]
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Doug Connery
Thanks David for a “random list” of great pitches.The hardest part will be choosing three best to do detailed comments on.
Doug.
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Peggy Lawson
Thanks for the reminder Doug. I do recall reading somewhere our procedure and tasks for reviewing the pitches, but a refresher would be helpful or pointing me in the right direction as to where I saw that information before.
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tomwhyte1
Three? I was under the assumption, that the expectation was all?
Thoughts?
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Doug Connery
Hi:
Under 4 Launch there is a dcoument that states quick comments for 7 and in-depth for 3. I was refereing to choosing 3 for the in-depth review. Hope this did not cause too much confusion!
Doug.
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tomwhyte1
See that now… opps… Oh well, I have done a detailed write-up on 9 of the 10… Yours and Peggy’s are part of that…
At least I got a bit more practice… 🙂
Thanks for showing me that.
Have a great night.
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Peggy Lawson
Thanks Doug. I knew I had seen it somewhere. In hindsight it seems to be the obvious place for instructions for this venture project, but I’ve never fully been comfortable with the blog format as an LMS
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adi
Thank you from the Week 12 OLE team
On behalf of this week’s group, we would like to thank you all for being a part of our OLE. An OLE should promote hands on experiences, self-directed and mediated learning, learner autonomy, personal inquiry and divergent thinking. You all embraced the challenge in different ways and held different opinions regarding the various platforms and […]
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David Vogt
Posting Your A3
Hi everyone – from Jamaica! (No, not a holiday, unfortunately. I’m here to help a group of MET graduates launch a new venture – a non-profit enterprise called EdTech Jamaica that intends to provide national leadership in every aspect of learning technologies implementation here. A grand and worthwhile vision – hopefully it is an inspiration […]
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teacherben
Should we include a personal reflection in the ventures forum or should be email that to you?
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David Vogt
A3 Advice
Pursuant to Peggy’s recent A3 post, and some other queries via email, I’m posting this general announcement to welcome any questions about Assignment 3 that might not be answered or sufficiently clear in the instructions and rubric in the course requirements. As per the course schedule, your A3 is due at the end of Week […]
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Doug Connery
Hi David, thanks for the info.
As the November 25 due date draws near, I have some questions.
Will you create a Venture Forum Category for us to link our submissions to?
Just to be clear, we create a new post here and upload our elevator pitch (video) and venture pitch (video or written) and embed them in the post. This is where Kaltura comes in, automatically I assume.
Then we wait for you to assign each of us 10 ventures to review. We comment briefly on 7 and in more detail on our top 3 and then choose and justify one or more of the top three to fund. This needs to be done by the last day of classes on Friday November 30.
Thanks David.
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kstackhouse
3rd Annual Global Education Conference
Just wanted to let people know about this free online conference that is coming soon. I did not participate last year but heard through a colleague that it was a very interesting experience. Here is the link if you are interested: http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2012-conference Enjoy!
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visramn
Thank you for sharing.
Nureen
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David Vogt
A1 Results
Good evening, my friends. I’ve now finished second review and evaluation of your A1 submissions, and all of you should now have received an email from me with my comments and your grade. If you haven’t received this email, please let me know immediately. I will also welcome any questions and concerns you might have. […]
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visramn
Bringing Week Seven to a Close
Bringing week seven to a close Group seven would like to thank all of you for taking part in the discussions and activities this week. We hope this week has allowed for you to enhance you understanding of Augmented Reality and has introduced you to some new educational tools. We appreciate your active participation and […]
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David Vogt
UBC Mobile App Design Contest
Just in case it provides an inspiration or vehicle for your emergent A3 ideas (yes, I know, you haven’t completed A1 yet!!) I’m pleased to append details of a UBC-wide contest I launched today to propose new mobile apps for dramatically enhancing the UBC experience. The contest closes January 15, 2013 – after ETEC522 completes […]
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David Vogt
A1-A3 Questions
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I’ve had a couple of recurring questions about A1, so I’ll share answers more generally: – when your A1 is complete (it is due on the 14th) please email it directly to me, as a link, document, or whatever. I will acknowledge receipt. – it is possible to create a direct link […]
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joeltremblay
David,
In your rubric for A1 you talk about the EVA process. I’m correct in assuming you’re talking about the Economic Value Added process correct? I want to clarify before I continue.
Thanks
Joel
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melissaayers
Week 5: Apps OER
Welcome to our Apps OER. After viewing our launchpad video please feel free to join us this week on Weebly for our ETEC 522 Apps OER experience. The OER team: Melissa Ayers, Patason Brooks, Mike Rae, Ken Stackhouse, Jonathan Tang
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adi
Great presentation! You’re a natural. I’m very much looking forward to learning about Apps. Thanks.
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jenbarker
I really liked your use of different backgrounds. Not that it matters, but I curious as to where the video was shot?
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kstackhouse
Thanks for the comments. The video was shot in Saint John, New Brunswick. I have to give my wife, Laura, credit for spending the day walking around the city filming me. 🙂 She is a good sport. One thing I found interesting was the amount of time it takes to make such a short segment. I definitely have a greater appreciation of what it takes to make news reports or reports like Rick Mercer’s Rants.
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teacherben
I have been doing a lot of tutorials to support staff recently and it does take a lot more time that you expect it to (and more than others probably appreciate.) I assume that the more I do, the easier it will get, either because I get better at doing it, or that I won’t be so uptight about seeing myself on camera and all the little mistakes. The changes in scenery do keep us watching. I would love to have a version where you did it all in one spot so I could show both to my students to compare. (I’m not actually asking you to make anther one…)
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kstackhouse
I actually didn’t do any single takes of the script. I had decided to do a paragraph per scene so I just did as many takes as required at each location. For me the editing part was easy and probably took about an hour using iMovie. We probably spent about 3.5 hours filming. So it took about 4.5-5 hours to make a video under 3 minutes. 🙂
In my media studies class they create three video projects, a commercial, a movie trailer (to a movie that doesn’t exist), and a chase scene (no cars). The students are always amazed that it takes them about three hours of filming for a 3-5 minute storyboard.
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Peggy Lawson
Nice intro to your week – you’ve defnitely caught my attention. I’ll looking forward to an interesting week!
Peggy
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visramn
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C. Ranson
Apps OER Team, great introductory video. Going to visit your Weeblysite now.
Catherine
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Eva Ziemsen
Just a question, what camera and mic did you use?
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kstackhouse
Thanks for your interest. I used a combination…my iPhone 4 and my iPad 2…no external mics. There was only one scene where there was a lot of background noise that I had to adjust the audio in iMovie so you could hear me better.
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Kent Jamieson
It’s amazing what you can do nowadays with mobile technology and apps. I just finished editing our Grade 4 camp experience using iMovie into a 12 minute video for parents…all on my iPhone! I look forward to learning more this week about apps!
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kstackhouse
That is awesome. I was just telling a friend about this ability. He couldn’t believe that the iMovie app was only $4.99! I have only used the desktop version. I heard that there have been a few full length movies filmed using iPhones.
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jenniferschubertubc
I’ve filmed a lot of footage for demo videos on my iPhone 4S and have been really impressed with both the quality and the ability to edit “on the fly.” I also do a bit of photography when I can and am always amazed at the quality of the photo editing apps floating around out there. Some of the photos I take on my phone give the ones I take with my fancy schmancy digital SLR a run for their money! (And the phone is MUCH more portable…)
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adi
Thanks to this week’s group for an awesome learning experience. Both activities taught me a lot and left me curious to carry on learning. The links to the readings were also very interesting. I did not know there was a difference between an application and an app, or that there are three types of apps: native, web and hybrid, and that some are easier to build, but others to find.
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melissaayers
Many thanks for the positive feedback about our OER – its very reassuring to hear!
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David Vogt
Here Comes Week 4 – The Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp
Great action in the Pitch Pool, everyone. Thanks! The main point, as described, was to start some active thinking and role-playing about ventures, both pitching them and reviewing them. While there is well-defined content and context for a great pitch, there’s enormous room for an entrepreneur’s art, talent and personality to have impact. I’m an […]
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David Vogt
Week 3 Starts Tomorrow – The Analyst’s Bootcamp
Thanks for diving into the rough and tumble world of emerging market predictions over the last week. From my perspective, their accuracy and reliability lie somewhere between those of horoscopes and weather reports. You could ignore them completely, but it’s prudent to calibrate your own thinking against a few ‘professional’ sources every so often, and […]
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David Vogt
Please mind your online manners…
One aspect of using WordPress I appreciate is that it can feel like the dynamic flow of a great cocktail party – lots of intelligent people in active conversation. And like at a cocktail party, conversation is injured when somebody says something inappropriate or out of sync. This is my way of saying I’m […]
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teacherben
Hi David,
Just to be clear, if we ‘discover’ a post outside of the week where it was posted, or we want to carry a discussion on, you would prefer we not bother and instead try to focus on the new topic for the week and let the older stuff rest. Is this right?
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Paula Poodwan
In my humble opinion, I think if we want to continue the discussion in the outside area of the weekly forum, like in the Announcements, Blog Café, General, and Questions & Answers, we should be okay to post and respond at anytime. Just my two cents 🙂
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David Vogt
Thanks for these –
As Paula suggests, the Cafe, Announcements, etc, are places designed for legitimately off-topic conversations. For example, someone sharing some news pertinent to the whole course, or asking a question about an assignment down the line. What I’m looking to curtail are ‘dead letter’ postings covering an activity or conversations from a previous week. With 40 people active in a blog attention is our most precious commodity – we all need to take part in cultivating it wisely.
David
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Emerging Markets Poll Results & A2 Teams
Dear mob – The Emerging Markets Poll results have been analysed and you all should now have received an email introducing you to your A2 assignment and EMT team-mates. Please let me know immediately if you haven’t received your A2 assignment. Here is the roll-out of the Emerging Markets covered in this session of ETEC522: […]
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Patrick Pichette
Hi David,
Would you be willing to share your thoughts on what you considered to be the 8 top emerging markets? On my end, there were at least 10 if not 12 that I felt were quite viable and had a lot of potential but I followed the criteria and selected 8 as positive votes and made the rest negative votes even if I thought they had potential. I’m just curious if our thoughts are aligned on the top 8 or not.
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David Vogt
Thanks for asking, but I’ll demure on revealing my own selections. I could have composed a set of poll topics that represent my own sense of the most exciting learning technologies, but felt that these third-party predictions would be both less biased for you and more eye-opening for me.
David
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Paula Poodwan
Hi David,
I’m not so sure how the “Private Group” works but when I clicked “ Private Group” It takes me to the UBC Blogs ETEC 522 – Sept 12 page.
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David Vogt
That’s right, and from there you simply click on the request for permission to join…
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Paula Poodwan
I am able to join the private group that is set up for all of the students in the course, but I couldn’t find the private area for our group project for assignment 2. I know we can meet outside WordPress but at least I need to get a hold of my teammates in here first 🙂
I understand that after you have set up the teams, everyone will then be subscribed to the working areas. The instructions in “ How to use this Weblog” said “You can navigate to your private group area by clicking on the Community link on the Top Menu Bar, and then selecting your group from the dropdown list”. However, on the top menu bar, there is no option that says “Community”, unlike the picture you posted along with the instructions, where the community option was in between Home and 1. Inspiration.
Thanks,
Paula
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adi
I’m having the same problem Paula. Thanks for posting this. 🙂
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David Vogt
Welcome to Week #2!
Hi everyone – hope you had a fine weekend. Thanks for diving in to the course and introducing yourselves. We’ve clearly gathered an exceptional group of learning adventurers for this journey together – I’m looking forward to our shared experience. Our second week is about getting primed for working in the world of global education […]
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tomwhyte1
Greeting From The Hat
Good day, My name is Tom Whyte, from Medicine Hat, Alberta. This is one of the many courses I am taking this semester, which I hope I will be able to continue to take, professional changes might be happening, which may reduce time 🙁 However, if I remain this will either be my 6th, 7th, […]
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jameschen
3 MET courses in one term is quite a bit! Nice meeting you, Tom.
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kstackhouse
Hi Tom,
Like you I am taking 3 courses. I have been doing two per fall/winter while teaching. I am on leave right now, so hopefully it won’t be too crazy. Best of luck this term.Ken
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tomwhyte1
My professional obligations might be changing, forcing me to alter this plan… Will know in the next week. But thanks for the insights, greatly appreciated.
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David Vogt
Hello everyone! I’m your instructor – …
Hello everyone! Welcome to September! I’m your instructor – David Vogt – you can reach me whenever you wish at david DOT vogt AT ubc DOT ca or by using the message system in this weblog. I spend most of my time as an entrepreneur and innovation leader, but I have a longstanding passion […]
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Ranvir
Hello everyone, my name is Ranvir and I’m really excited to take this course. This is my 3rd course and I hope to learn a lot and share experiences as we work together. I live in Surrey,BC and have an interesting commute to UBC where I work as Instructional Designer/ elearning PM
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Doug Connery
Hi David:
Thanks for the welcome and introduction. Can you tell us about the East Coast Trail, such a contrast of shorts and icebergs.
Doug.
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pcollins
Great to meet you David and I am very much looking forward to this course. Did you by chance have the opportunity to sample any of the Glen Breton when you were on the East Coast????? We still have a half of their single malt in the cupboard – Good for what ails you.
PC
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joeltremblay 12:32 pm on December 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi there David,
I haven’t received anything via email? Is that where you’re sending the feedback/marks to or?
David Vogt 2:06 pm on December 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’ve just finished relaying all of the A2 grades – so please let me know if you haven’t received them via email yet. Cheers, David
Patrick Pichette 9:49 pm on December 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I might be blind but I only see an email acknowledging reception of the A4 assignment.