Hello! Please feel free to explore my ETEC 565 e-portfolio and my Synthesis Reflection. I would like to thank my classmates and instructors for a great semester! The discussions have been rich and I have enjoyed following all of your weblogs. The past 13 weeks have been instrumental in my development in the field of […]

E- learning Toolkit – Accessibility Instructions: Take a look at your LMS (Vista or Moodle) site, including images, multimedia, links, tables and frame. Check the “Quick Tips” on WAI and check your work at Markup Validation Service.  See updated Web Accessibility Quick Tips based on WCAG 2 at a glance. What did you find? How […]

Please view my Moodle Final Reflection page for my final reflections on building my LMS course site in moodle.

Think about an example of how multimedia has been used effectively to enhance your learning. Feel free to reflect on your MET experiences, or any other. Over my first year and three courses in the MET program, the multimedia which I feel has been used effectively to enhance my learning has been screen casting.  A […]

Social Software E-learning Toolkit Reflection For this E-learning Toolkit Activity, I have decided to focus on four Social Software sites that I use personally.  The main sites that I use most frequently are Delicious and Twitter, and I have explored Digg and Flickr. 1.  Who “owns” materials posted by members? Delicious By posting content, you […]

Please view my Digital Stories and my reflection on my social media creations on my Digital Story page. Enjoy!

E-learning Toolkit:  Audio For this E-learning toolkit activity, I used Audacity to record 10 .mp3 files that I have uploaded to my moodle course.  The purpose of these voice recordings is to have audio support for the reading component of the course; the descriptions of the Milky Way, the Sun and the planets.  In each […]

E-learning Toolkit: Using Picasa For this E-learning toolkit activity, I chose a photo of a lily that I took at Grotto Canyon, close to Canmore, Alberta.  I followed the instructions in the activity pretty much step-by-step and as such, found the usability of Picasa to be intuitive.  On the left is my original photo, in […]

E-learing toolkit:  Weblogs We have been discussing Weblogs in much detail over the past week or so in ETEC 565, which has led me to this toolkit activity.  I’ve spent the greater part of this afternoon browsing through some educational blogs which has been interesting and has led me to discover many articles, video clips, […]

Came across this YouTube video today – interesting and inspirational!