A2 – Mobile Collaboration
Welcome to our Mobile Collaboration OER, Please join us in this week’s Moveable Feast as we explore tools, lessons, issues and the future of mobile collaboration. Note the following activities are embedded throughout: Tools (survey) Lessons (add your own) Mobile Collage Reviews (Fligrid) Issues (Dotstorming) Future (Learnbright) Our team worked hard to make our app […]
A1- Swift Playgrounds
My A1 is about coding, reviewing the coding app Swift Playgrounds. I am a language instructor and I think that coding is one of the languages that should be learned (or even taught) to children as we face this new Information Age. Here is the link to my https://chaoslamasloca.wixsite.com/etec523-a1
A1: Seesaw: Authentic Authorship in the Early Years (and beyond!)
I chose to explore some of the ways that Seesaw can be used as a tool to support and encourage independent authorship with early learners focusing on extending the power of the writer’s workshop model using a mobile device. Two key advantages to this tool are: Ease of use and understanding The opportunity for an […]
A1 – Mobile Activism
Happy Sunday and Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Here is my A1 analysis of mobile activism, which is an aspect of mobile culture and technology that has emerged in the past few years as an accessible and powerful way for everyday people to take part in activism and affect social, political, economic, […]
A1 – Mobile Game-Based Learning
For this A1 project I wanted to dive in deeper to mobile game-based learning (GBL). It caught my attention in the Frontiers Poll at the beginning of the course. I enjoy using GBL learning in my class, as the students enjoy learning with it. I often use games as a supplement to teaching, as stations, […]
A1 Fiction Express-you decide, the author writes
For the A1 assignment, I created a video to go through a reading platform: Fiction Express. Fiction Express is a platform that offers innovative online fiction for students to read. The highlights of this platform are that it connects the professional authors and readers through online voting. The readers can vote on where the story […]
A1 – Floop – Student Feedback
How can we use technology to make student feedback more efficient? As a grade 7 and 8 math, science and language teacher with about 60 students in total, I explored the mobile tool Floop to provide students with effective and efficient feedback. In this podcast I am going to talk about the importance of effective […]
A1: Data Consolidation as in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
I created a video in portrait orientation which is optimized for mobile viewing. I immediately jumped to this topic as I have dabbled in many iterations of this long-running series and have always been disappointed by the level of detail present in the past. This overhauled version has some really exciting technology in it, and […]
A1 – Online Learning – The Least Favourite Child in Education?
In this video,I discuss some of the reasons why students see online learning as lower-quality than face to face learning. I also follow up with how the use of mobile technology could enhance the overall learning experience for students. I would like to hear whether you have encountered the same attitude while working with students […]
A1: Podcasting
For this assignment, I focused on podcasting and created a podcast and wix website to share my knowledge and thoughts of using podcasts for education. I have embedded my podcast which is about 4 minutes long into my website. Just for added fun, I also included my first try at a podcast that I submitted […]