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Twitter Meltdown

Twitter Meltdown

https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/ Despite the number of high profile Twitter users who have said that they were going to quit after Elon Musk took over, Twitter ended 2022 with it’s highest numbers. While it is predicted to decrease in number of active monthly users, until the numbers actually come out, there is no way to say for […]

Cospaces Edu – Another Look

Cospaces Edu – Another Look

Cospaces Edu is a powerful website that enables students to explore and create VR and AR worlds. Although this website and app was mentioned in this post (CoSpaces Edu | ETEC523: Mobile and Open Learning (ubc.ca)) I think it is worth a second look. In the classroom, students can create worlds in VR that are […]

Google Classroom App- most friendly online classroom platform for all learners, an excellent teaching tool during pandemic

Google Classroom App- most friendly online classroom platform for all learners, an excellent teaching tool during pandemic

Google Classroom has long been a favourite of mine. As this relatively simple tool develops and expands, I continue to be amazed. The Google Classroom mobile app is a great example mobile technology. It can be challenging as an ESL teacher to ensure that your students comprehend the instructions.They sometimes dislike reading, or it can […]

OCR on Mobile Devices – Vision Engines

OCR on Mobile Devices – Vision Engines

Although it has been around for a few years, I recently encountered Photomath by Blink. This app leverages the company’s OCR technology for mobile device cameras (now called a Machine Vision Engine) to input a math equation and “instantly” solve it, and display the solution as multiple steps. Originally designed with an on-device math engine, […]

Know More About MoBI

Know More About MoBI

“Mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) is an integrative multimethod approach used to investigate human brain activity, motor behaviour, and other physiological data associated with cognitive processes that involve active behaviour” (Jungnickel et al., 2019, p.59).  The most significant advantage of MoBI is moving lab environments toward more naturalistic ones. The experiments can be done by getting […]

OwlBearRodeo and Story Telling

OwlBearRodeo and Story Telling

I have been an avid role playing game (RPG) player for more than half my life. It began in my first year of high school and has continued on, evolving from forum based writing until I was introduced to dice-based tabletop role playing games (TTRPG). My interest and dabbling with TTRPGs began before the pandemic […]