Hello!
Happy New Year! My name is Elixa Neumann and I live in Vancouver, BC! I have been a teacher in the Burnaby School District since 2016 but am on a leave of absence this year due to the pandemic. I decided to start my masters and explore other career paths in education, other than teaching […]
Greetings from Nini Mao
Hello everyone, my name is Nini Mao. I am a new student at MET, and this is my first semester and first course. I grew up in Beijing, China, and moved to BC Canada two years ago. I have been working in financial education field for over 20 years since I graduated with my MBA. […]
Introduction – Stephen Michaud
Hi! My name is Stephen Michaud, this is my second term (third course) in the MET program. I joined the MET program to get a better educational and pedagogical background in ed-tech. I have worked in ed-tech for the last 15 years and I am current the Senior Manager, Learning Applications, Integrations, and Analytics in […]
Hello Everyone!
Hi everyone, My name is Erin Duchesne and I am a third year, grade 1 teacher from Edmonton, Alberta. I graduated from the University of Alberta in 2018 and this is my first semester in the MET program. This year I was tasked with the challenge of teaching fully online to the 30 grade one’s […]
A journalist, educator, and instructional design wannabe
Technology made my professional life possible, and I have scrambled to keep up with the ways I’ve needed to use it every step of the way. As a journalist covering the Northwest Territories and Nunavut for one of Canada’s few remaining independent news agencies, technology was vital to connecting with communities with no road access […]
way’ (hello) from the Okanagan!
Hi everyone, My name is Meg (Margaret Irwin) and I’m excited to be in courses 7 and 8 of my MET journey. I am a Foods teacher in Vernon, BC on the traditional, unceded territory of the Syilx Nation. I have been a teacher for 16 years, teaching mostly Home Ec and PE at the […]
Week 1: Mobility Perspectives
Ok, what’s so special about mobile learning? 523 weeks 1-4, the Mobility phase, are the beginning of an answer to this question. In week 1 you participate in a flash-poll (“Frontiers Poll”) on the mobile ideas, trends and technologies identified by primary research firms and pundits as the most current and critical for everyone to pay attention to. […]
Week 2: Mobile Technology Review
Appropriate to the collective authorship theme of 523, I would like to acknowledge that the ‘seed’ Week 2 materials were originally assembled by MET alumnus Ping Zhang. Mobile technology has changed our world and lives immensely. What is inside this technology? Where did it evolve from? What are the trends? How do networks and devices cooperate […]
Week 3: Mobile Culture Review
I want to thank your MET peer Andrew Murray for his fine work in assembling a debut set of Mobile Culture readings and resources for this week. Rather than pretend to set a stage for all of Mobile Culture – which would be fun, to say the least – I will begin by sharing two […]