LoriMeville
MarvelApp – A Design Tool for Non-Coders (and non-designers)
I can’t code…or design, really. My 12-year-old daughter can code to program a Lego robot and design intricate objects to be 3-D printed, but it’s all completely foreign to me (and I don’t really want to learn, yet). For people who do not know how to code, the idea of building an app initially seems […]
A3 – Student Self-Assessment of BC’s Core Competencies with CC4Me
How can educators in British Columbia address both the revised content curriculum and BC’s core competencies in classrooms? How do we help students learn about and effectively self-assess their competency profiles? While some teachers, schools, and districts have embraced the Core Competencies and have dived into learning and assessment, others are just getting started and […]
What 3 Words
What 3 Words (W3W) is a free app that uses your smartphone’s GPS signal to locate you anywhere in the world, on land or water. The entire surface of the globe is divided into 3 metre by 3 metre squares, each with a unique 3-word locator. W3W is available in 48 languages and is becoming […]
Culture of Mobility
When referring to mobile culture, do you think about mobile devices with any-time and any-where access to the internet, or do you think about the culture of being on the move? As cities grow, traffic problems increase, and global climate change becomes more concerning, bicycle sharing programs (both pedal bikes and electric bikes) have been […]
A-1 Science Inquiry with Mobile Digital Microscopes
Hi everyone. While working on our Mobile Collaboration to Enhance Working, Learning, and Playing OER, three things happened: (1) I started thinking about how science inquiry could be implemented with mobile devices. (2) I started playing and letting my students explore with the digital wifi microscopes we purchased recently. (3) I got further inspired by […]
Debating the Issues with Kialo
To Debate or Not to Debate? If you’ve ever tried to facilitate a debate or discussion on a complex topic in your classroom, you’ve probably encountered any number of frustrating scenarios, from students not taking the topic seriously to not understanding how a debate works. It takes planning and front-loading of expectations to make sure […]
A-2 Our Moveable Feast: Mobile Collaboration to Enhance Working, Learning, and Playing
Hi everyone. We would like to invite you to participate in our OER – a Wix site on Mobile Collaboration to Enhance Working, Learning, and Playing. Our intended audience consists of adult professionals who are looking to implement or improve mobile collaboration in their lives, whether it be their workplace, education, or the arts. Please […]
Personal Learning & Teaching Assistants
The article Collaborative Mobile-Learning Architecture Based on Mobile Agents (2020) proposes a mobile learning (m-learning) application that uses ‘mobile agents’ which can assess, track, and report students’ progress and collaborative efforts while engaged in learning activities within or outside of the classroom. These mobile agents are combinations of software with data that can move between […]
An Online Collaboration Tool Experience
In their study on online collaboration for professional development, van Oostveen, Dejardins, and Bullock (2019), investigated the possibility of learning as meaning-making through collaboration. The authors’ premise was that our current online strategies conflict with educational theories that stress the social constructivist nature of learning, and that teachers and educational systems are slow to change […]
Happy 2021!
Hi everyone. My name is Lori Meville and I have been teaching biology, math, and junior science in the Cariboo-Chilcoltin for the past 23 years. My family and I went to Quebec for a year off in 2018, during which I decided to start the MET program, and I’ve been working one course at a […]