Introduction
I was excited to participate in ETEC 522 prior to my enrolment as I have always been interested in entrepreneurship and the business field. The excitement paid off as I look back on my time during the course.
Explanatory Narrative of Posts
The links to my 10 posts are at the end of this submission
Selected Post 1 – Are You a Changemaker?
Explanation: I enjoyed this post specifically as I was trying to be honest with my peers and myself. Through saying that I often get caught up in the latest technological trend, I often found myself to be a changemaker but for the wrong reasons. This is still something I am working on personally as I try to view technology through a critical lens.
Selected Post 2 – Is the Education Marketplace Broken?
Explanation: This post occurred just as I had a similar conversation with a co-worker relating to the flow of money and resources from higher authorities to the education sector. It is an issue that I deeply hope is fixed eventually through a free-flowing marketplace.
Selected Post 4 – Immersive Experience End of Week Comment
Explanation: I really wanted to find a way to keep the conversation going during my OER week. I was listening to a podcast, and they touched on the topic of Meta and VR/AR. I hope that this post will keep the conversation going with future students taking ETEC 522.
Overall Posts
I think that I actively participated in discussions with my peers and actively proposed new views and questions during these discussions. Throughout each week of OERs, I participated in the group discussion on the ETEC 522 site and completed the various Padlets and surveys on each group’s OER website. During the Venture Forum, I provided in-depth feedback to my peers and congratulated them all on a job well done!
Participation
I actively participated each week; however, I would not say that I contributed exceptionally more than my peers in terms of the number of responses or comments provided. I would rate myself in the top 40% in relation to my peers for responses.
Final Statement
I can proudly say I put in a lot of effort into each of my assignment submissions using my experience in web design to create the best experience I could for my peers and for future students taking this course. I immediately noticed that most assignments were completed with Google Sites. I hoped that by trying new things with WordPress I would inspire other students to do the same instead of creating yet another Google Site. I hope future students will see the assignments I posted which were completed on WordPress (A1, A2, and A3) and try to push their project designs a little bit further.
List of Selected Postings
- Are You a Changemaker? – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2020/08/30/are-you-a-changemaker/#comment-3476
- Is the Education Marketplace Broken? – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2020/08/30/w02-is-the-education-marketplace-broken/#comment-3554
- Pitch Pool Response for Mursion – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/01/26/mursion-vr-for-teachers-and-students/#comment-3573
- Immersive Experience End of Week Comment – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/10/09/week-6-oer-immersive-technologies/#comment-3710
- Assistive Technologies OER – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/10/23/week-8-assistive-technology-for-english-language-learners/#comment-3762
- Classrooms of the Future OER – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/11/06/week-10-classrooms-of-the-future/#comment-3816
- Coding Revolution OER – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/11/13/week-11-coding-revolution/#comment-3847
- 5G Networks OER – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/11/20/week-12-5g-networks/#comment-3893
- Review – SpeaKulture by Safa’a – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2022/11/25/safas-venture-pitch/#comment-4030
- Who Owns the Future of Education? –https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522/2020/08/30/w13/#comment-4027