Author: Mark Bates
I am an Educator living in Quispamsis, New Brunswick Canada. Currently, I am seconded from my Grade 5 class at Island View School to the position of Educational Support Teacher – Technology in the Southern Anglophone School District. Technology has been a common thread throughout my careers in education and community services. Now I am fortunate to be able to use my enthusiasm for integrating digital technologies into my teaching pedagogy and share those experiences with others in my district.

Synthesis

Flight Path Précis As I stated in my Flight Path at the begin of the course, I had several reasons why I wanted to enter UBC’s Master in Educational Technology program and register for ETEC 565.  In regards to the course,

Case Study | Music Video

Task Dafna teaches Fine Arts in a Vancouver Board of Education (VBE) alternative high school program. Students there have, for various reasons, struggled in mainstream high school programmes. At her “school” a flexible structure, condensed (4 hour) day, and interdisciplinary

Moodle Course Site

Task A Moodle online course site with the following components: Overall quality of work, as per the overall standards listed above. A significant component of your score on this assignment relates to the calibre of your web design (including level sophistication,

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Digital Story

Reflection My educational digital story is intended for use by an educator in the classroom with students in Grades 2 or 3.  It is a digital story, not a lesson or lecture, although it is meant to be used within

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Parental Advisory – Blog May Contain Learning

Scenario Summary Noelene has her high school students blogging Uses LiveJournal Has set out purpose, procedure, assessment Students appear to enjoy activity and writing is improving Problem 2 parents are concerned that its public strangers have commented on student’s ‘personal’

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E-portfolio Assignment #4: Assessment tools

Task A complete exam or quiz for your LMS course site, reflecting a variety of question types and assessment strategies, and built within Moodle’s quiz tool (add-ons or plug-ins like Hot Potatoes cannot be used to complete this assignment). Your

Let’s Wiki

Task Develop a first draft of an activity in which you would use either a synchronous or asynchronous tool (or combination of both) to support student interaction in your Moodle site.  Provide a short description of the activity and your

Musing on Museology

Case Study Trinh is an associate professor in museum studies at a comprehensive university. She has delivered an innovative introductory online course on museology; in fact, students enrolled at universities in New Zealand, South Africa, and Finland all take her

Online Learning Environments and Interactive Technologies

To what extent have you experienced on-line or mixed-mode courses that achieved this kind of learning environment? I thought, I would use a type of infographic using the on-line service ThingLink to illustrate examples of how I have experienced the kind of on-line learning

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Ah Ha’s

Through recent discussion in the secure course forum and the process of completing two assignments, I’ve had separate but related ‘ah ha’ moments.  My new goal is to keep these in the front of my conscious mind with the hope

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