A3 – Personal Data: Should You Be Worried?
Hi all! Personal data security isn’t something new but since the pandemic, more activities are moving online. With the increasing use of mobile devices, the risk of personal data breach isn’t something to overlook. For this project, I look into relevant topics including data (in)security, data economy, and also a new ways of empowering users […]
News Online
I’ve been thinking a lot of late about how we’ve managed to get to a place where we’re so divided and so extreme in our political opinions. And I think I’ve come to a reasonable hypothesis. There’s a lot to be said about cable news and their role in the division, and all I’ll say […]
A3 Mobile Games and Technology for Primary Classrooms
Mobile Games and Technology Changing The Way We Teach As a primary teacher I have noticed that the students who are coming into our classrooms come in with knowledge that is far superior to the students who have just graduated from our primary… Go to this Sway For my A3 I have created a presentation […]
A3 – Teach Assist: The Virtual Teaching Assistant Teachers Need
For the A3 Forecasting project I wanted to focus on something that is pertinent to myself and many other educators; the work, life balance of being an educator. Artificial intelligence is everywhere and will only continue to grow over the years to come so we might as well use it to its fullest potential. For […]
A3 – The Future of Satellite to Mobile Phone Communications
Shortly before our section of ETEC 523 began in the spring there was a significant breakthrough in satellite to cellphone communications. Recalling some of the recent stories I heard from my students about growing up without cell reception in the Outback of Australia, in coastal BC towns or in rural Hawaii I wanted to explore […]
A3 – SPIRITED MINDS: A Mental Health Application
For my forecasting project, A3, I decided to explore wearable technologies. Specifically, I described a fictional future technology that does not currently exist. It is a mobile mental health application, called SPIRITED MINDS. This application requires the use of a smartwatch device. Its main purpose is to aid the self-regulation process by providing therapeutic activities […]
A3-Mixed Reality for Career Education
Hello everyone, for my A3 assignment, I decided to explore a possible solution to the problem of career education that we have been struggling with for years. And mixed reality technology could be a good way to explore different options. My website can be found here.
Mobile Annotation
Inspired by a need to mark up some of my beautiful cookbooks with recipe adaptations (and at the same time not really wanting to wreck their pristine nature), I decided to look at creating digital annotations for physical books. Within my presentation, a Weebly site, I explored some of the current options out there and […]
A3 – QuoteLovers a Language Learning App
For this forecasting project, I chose to describe a FICTIONAL app that does not exist now. The app is presented on a website where the product page mimics the app description on Apple’s App Store to introduce key terminologies and concepts of Mobility, so it is a parody of a real app on the App […]
Mobile-First Design
Switching to responsive, mobile-first designs that put mobile prioritization at the heart of the design process is listed as one of the 2020 WEB DESIGN TRENDS. This article was an interesting read to me, and I think that it is closely related to this week’s topic: usability. I didn’t know that Google predominantly uses the […]