Hello my name is Katie Cowen. Welcome to my personal web space for ETEC 540: Text Technologies.
I am currently in my 8th and 9th MET program courses and am on track to complete the program by next September, yeehaw! I live in Kamloops, BC with my husband, our dog Finn and we have a baby boy making his debut in January 2020!! I am currently teaching PE and Grade 2 in Kamloops and absolutely love it. I’ve enjoyed experimenting with many new technologies particularly when teaching the Applied Design Skills and Technologies curriculum this past year and am looking forward to trying other things I never got around to last year. Looking forward to meeting and working with many of you this upcoming term. Good luck to everyone.
Hi Katie,
I’m not able to comment directly on your “what’s in your bag exercise page,” because I can’t see a comment option there, but I want to thank you for your thoughtful contribution and to say that I look forward to learning with you this term!
Hi Katie,
Just dropping a comment to say I enjoyed your story about New York. I also originally thought of doing a travel memory because you can recall what happened as a vacation leaves a lasting impression, probably a variety of items to describe, and it might be of interest to others who travel. I ended up not going with a vacation story, though I considered a few, but I still ended up with a real-life memory. This assignment would have been really hard, for me, I think if I had had to make up a completely fictitious story. The WTC memorial hadn’t been completed when I was in NYC, but if I ever go back, its on my must see list. I hadn’t heard of the Chelsea market though. I might look that up as a possibility. I found finding good shopping that wasn’t the crazy expensive brands tough. This sound like it might have better treasure hunting.
Cheers!
Hi Katie,
I am also posting into your comments section to add my text about the text technologies found in your bag.
I like how you say the objects are like texts that open many doors for communication. Your emphasis on how you backup many of your online commutations by writing it on paper shows how important keeping notes is to you.
The idea of a handbag is just that – to have things on hand – I found that how you describe your items shows how closely linked you are to your work-life. What you feel you need to have on hand are many of the school-teacher’s tools.
I am an informal educator and I just completed creating a program about archaeology and paleontology. This said, I would like to speak to what researchers in the distant future could learn about on our lifestyle by looking at the items we carry in our bags.
Your item list: iPhone charger, teacher’s planner, wallet, work keys and whistle, hand lotion, hand sanitizer, lip balm, hair clip, iPhone, water bottle, measuring tape, car key, pencil case with sticky notes, small scissors, eraser, stickers, white out inside and multicoloured pen.
From looking at the items in your bag, I assume you are someone who is physically active with a hair clip to hold hair out of the face, a water bottle to stay hydrated, and a whistle and hand sanitizer. A quick look into your agenda may show that you are a PE teacher and a gr 2 teacher, which would concretize the link between the bottle the whistle, and the hair clip.
The fact that you own a backpack that functions pretty much like a purse and that you have car keys in your purse reveals your principal mode of transportation. you appear to be someone often on the go!
Your text itself shows a high degree of organization. I wonder if we would find links between the colours of ink in the writing tools of your pencil case and the notes you keep in your agenda.
One of the questions we were asked was “”How does the narrative of the (private) contents of your bag compare with the narrative produced by image you have of yourself or the image you outwardly project?”
From your text and your contents, it feels as though how you describe yourself truly is what you carry in your bag.
Thank you for opening yourself up!
Evelyn Tsang
Hi Katie,
Your emoji story looks like the teleromance “General Hospital” to me, with stormy romances to make one laugh or cry.
How close was that? And got a hint? 😉
Hi Katie,
Responding to the Golden Record Curation:
It was interesting to see what while our selection criteria was very similar, what came out in our song selections was quite different. We both wanted to select a diverse geography, and to represent asia I chose the chinese strings while you chose Japanese strings. To represent American sounds, you chose Louis while I chose Johnny B. Goode. Similar structures in criteria, different end results.