Mobile Time Management with Flipd (App)
This post was encouraged in part by Maria Agop’s post about the app “Headspace for Kids”. Headspace is a great app, and as Maria mentions, mindfulness can be beneficial for really, anyone. As I was reading this post, I thought about the fact that one of the things that we encourage kids (and ourselves really) […]
D2L Brightspace Pulse App
The Pulse App is D2L’s mobile platform that maximizes productivity on the go while delivering a comprehensive learning experience on any device. The app allows students to stay connected and engaged with convenient, mobile learning. Students can view their class schedules, grades, and content with D2L Brightspace. They can access their full course content seamlessly […]
Online Tutoring
My apologies for this late first post. I was drawn to this post for a number of reasons including the fact that I am about to embark on some online tutoring myself and in particular to a line written about connecting online tutoring to powerful lessons in global citizenship, a well-known topic that I am […]
Our addiction to selfies and photographing things around us
Are you an avid photographer who enjoys capturing picturesque sunsets, natural moments, or events you witness on the street? Most people enjoy comments on the photos they share on social networking sites like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and others. Many of these images were either photoshopped or taken with filters. There is nothing wrong with posting […]
Digital Dependence: Are you a nomophobe?
The constant connectivity and access to information provided by smartphones have led to a culture of constant availability and immediacy, where people feel the need to be constantly connected to the internet and their social networks. Nomophobia and Phonophobia are terms used to describe the fear of being without your mobile phone or the fear […]
W03: Who Can Be Trusted?
W03: Who Can Be Trusted? Another very pleasant week of reading and thinking. I am very grateful for being here. I just wish I had three heads to be able to read everything! As it is, Social Narrative kept my attention, and I appreciated my colleagues’ consideration toward diversity of social media, its peculiarities, influence, […]
Gamification of Apps
This post is inspired by Gamifying your life By carla pretorius on May 25, 2020 In my opinion, if you want to talk about gamification, you are looking for the feature of continuity. A specific game is considered popular or successful when more users download, participate in, recommend to others and stay up to date with its […]
Cybersecurity – How much your phone knows about you?
I believe most of you have worried at least once that your personal data has been collected by your phone. Yet, not many people know precisely or care much about what information their phones have about them. For example, have you ever noticed the ads appearing in different apps changing after you mentioned something in […]
2022 Screen Time
In November of 2022, The Canadian Paediatric Society released new guidelines and recommendations on screen time limitations for children. Essentially, they now recommend limiting sedentary screen time, and acknowledge the growing base of learning and assistive tech base apps. I am interested in this shift and wonder about how previously “sedentary” apps will shift towards […]
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 […]