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ABOUT ME
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I am an online high school teacher currently teaching Foods, Religious Studies, and Social Studies. I enjoy developing courses in Moodle and supporting my colleagues in trying to new technologies in their classrooms.
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I live on Treaty 7 which is traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3) Alberta.
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Category Archives: Tasks
Task 12 – Speculative Futures
My Situation Prompt: Describe or narrate a scenario about a curriculum found a decade into a future in which society as we know it has come apart. Your description should address issues related to entertainment and elicit feelings of amusement. … Continue reading
Task 11- Detain/Release
So, it looks like I was a bit too lenient with the drug dealers in my caseload! ????♀️ I think that I was trying so hard to not be biased that my decisions may have been impacted. The piece of … Continue reading
Task 10- Attention Economy
Well, this activity certainly wasn’t subtle, even though the article Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI design (2011) claims that subtlety is your friend when trying to deceive users! It took me a long time to get past that … Continue reading
Task 9- Network Assignment Using Golden Record Curation Quiz Data
This type of assignment is not my cup of tea. It put me way out of my comfort zone! In one of my other courses, there was an app called Threadz that analyzed the MET students’ contributions to discussion posts. … Continue reading
Task 8- Golden Record Curation
My task is to curate 10 of the 27 musical selections from the Golden Record. I need to decide ‘what to keep’ or rather ‘what could we afford to lose’. These selections collectively aim to convey the depth and diversity … Continue reading
Task 7- Mode Bending
Task 7 Mode – Bending Reflects Redesigned- What’s in your bag? Tactile audio: Challenge: Guess what’s in my bag based on the sound it makes when I interact with it. So were you able to guess the objects from … Continue reading
Task 6- An Emoji Story
This was a fun and challenging task. I did start with the title because I’m ‘Type A’ and must start from the top. I relied mostly on words. I deliberately skipped articles, even in my … Continue reading
Task 4- Manual Script
Commentary on manual script: Normally, I type. The only time I write by hand is when I am taking notes for school, writing cards, or maybe making a grocery list (but usually my grocery list is on an app, on … Continue reading
Task 3- Voice to Text
Transcript of my story: 1 My oldest son who is 19 and going into his second year of University did not get into residence this meant that I needed to buy him a bed I ordered the bed second week … Continue reading
Task 2- Does language shape the way we think?
Here are my reflections on Lera Borditsky’s SAR lecture “How Languages & Culture Shape the Way We Think” from May 2017 . 1. [4:25] If just want to tell you where I live and it’s the 7th blue house to … Continue reading