graham herrick
A1 – Zombies, Run!
As an instructional designer, the power of storytelling and the hero’s journey narrative has always interested me. In my own experience, I find them to be powerful tools when designing compelling and motivational learning experiences. A few years ago, I tore my ACL in one of my knees playing basketball. I was devasted as basketball […]
Alone Together
You have probably experienced it before. You are in an environment with other people, perhaps they are your friends and family, and not a word is spoken. You’re all on your smartphones. MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes about this phenomenon in her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each […]
Cancel Culture
Over the past few years, the idea of a person, brand, or even show being “cancelled” has become a polarizing topic of debate. “Cancelled” refers to the public backlash fueled by social media to culturally block a person, company or thing that has been deemed of committing wrongdoing from having a public platform. Calls to […]
FrameVR: An immersive mobile 3D collaboration and creation space
In the last semester, I worked with a group to create a virtual field trip. While discussing the various tools we could use, one member of our team introduced us to FrameVR, which my other group members and I were unaware of. We successfully used FrameVR to develop our field trip. While we created the […]
Greetings!
Hi everyone! My name is Graham Herrick. This course will be my third course in the MET program. Currently, I live in Beijing, China, however after eight years here in China, my wife and I will be moving back to Ontario in October. I originally came over to China after completing my BA to teach […]