greg patton
A1: Indoor Positioning Analytics
For Assignment 1, I chose to look at a tech company called Inpixon and its Indoor Positioning Analytics platform. This interested me for two reasons: I work in New Westminster and we are on the brink of moving into a brand new facility. The building is a modern education learning environment, and I have been […]
K-12 Blueprint: BYOD
https://www.k12blueprint.com/toolkits/byod I came across this website as I was doing some research into “Bring Your Own Device” and how to successfully implement it into a classroom and school. I am NOT saying that this site is amazing and the “be all, end all”… but what I found interesting is how in-depth they went into the […]
drum pads 24
Originally posted by on September 28, 2017 This is a fantastic sample/drum pad music making machine that I use not only for my music class but for any music my students want to build themselves to add to projects. The layout is quite simple, with 12 pads that act as sample triggers that you can upload […]
Augmented Educational Environments
Originally posted by Adam Matthews on March 29, 2015 Please watch the video below and follow the link through to my article on Medium. I chose to do the video as a way to illustrate the technology in a simple and credible way. I discovered Medium while doing research for my assignment 1 and really like the […]
8 Tracks Internet Radio
I miss the days of mixtapes. I would spend hours figuring out what songs went together and if they would all fit on the tape (nothing worse then choosing that last perfect song and then finding out you ran out of tape with a minute left). I took pride in those tapes and loved getting […]
Using Playlists to Personalize Learning
https://literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2018/06/08/using-playlists-to-personalize-learning Ok, at first I was looking for educational aspects of music apps, but then I came across this article and it really hit home with me. Before I became an administrator, I taught exclusively at alternate programs where the ideas of personalized learning was tantamount as your student population was fluid to a degree […]
Rap About It
Originally posted by unknown on February 5, 2016 Through recent searchers for more information on the effects of technology, specifically mobile technology, on humans and human interaction, I came across this video: “Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?”. It is preaching to/from a certain perspective, that of the negative effects or ‘loss of connection’ though social media, but still […]
Making Music on the Move
Originally posted by Jon Campbell on January 20, 2019 Media consumption in the modern era is predominantly mobile. Whether it’s in the car on in earbuds on the bus, the primary method many of us use to consume audio, in the form of music or podcast, is on the move. The Canadian artist Drake’s music was streamed from […]
Serial Podcasts
I’m that Dad that on long car trips has his family listen to old radio plays. They humour me, sometimes they even like them, but sooner or later they want to get back to listening to music or playing video games or yelling at each other to stay on their side of the back seat. […]
Strava’s privacy PR nightmare shows why you can’t trust social fitness apps to protect your data.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/01/29/145947/stravas-privacy-pr-nightmare-shows-why-you-cant-trust-social-fitness-apps-to-protect-your/ Though this article is older (January 2018) I think it is poignant to our times as we move into a phase where contact tracing and involuntary logging of our location will become more prevalent. Above is a screenshot of a bike ride I did about a month ago. From that post, you can extrapolate […]