Author Archives: Linda Duong
Link 3: Manual Scripts
I’ve decided to examine Sarah’s post on manual scripts. Although we had similar experiences with the task, her script manifests in very differently. How has your colleagues’ experience differed from yours? And how do you know? Sarah wrote a reflection … Continue reading
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Task 6: Emoji Story
Can you guess the story? View text description Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas or a combination of all of them? In this emoji story, I relied entirely on ideas. I used each emoji to represent an idea/object. … Continue reading
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Link 2: Speech-to-Text Task
I’ve decided to examine Andrew’s Speech-to-Text task. This is based on my observations to date (June 6, 2020). How has your colleague’s experience differed from yours? And how do you know? In terms of the specific task, I think it’s … Continue reading
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Printmaking – A Stamp from the Past
I didn’t do this week’s potato printing task, but wanted to share a similar thing I did back in Grade 9 or 10 art. This is a stamp made from linoblock and what the stamp ended up looking like. The … Continue reading
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Task 4: Manual Scripts
Letters to No One This is the finished product of my two letters to no one. I’ve applied a photocopy filter to the original photograph so that you can more clearly see my writing. Do you normally write by hand … Continue reading
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Link 1: What’s in Your Bag
I’ve decided to examine Shaun’s What’s in Your Bag task. This is based on my observations at the time of writing (May 23, 2020). How has your colleague’s experience differed from yours? And how do you know? Shaun chose to … Continue reading
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Task 3: The story of my voice to text task
The story of me trying to do the voice to text task Hello the test can you hear me okay I think this is working on so this is the speech-to-text task I don’t know what kind of story of … Continue reading
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Task 2: Does language shape the way we think?
For this task, we used CLAS (Collaborative Learning Annotation System) to annotate Lera Boroditsky’s talk: I really enjoyed this talk because it helped me understand how language is a technology that shapes the texts (e.g., speech, written work) that we … Continue reading
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Reflecting upon value-laden language
I’ve been reading ahead for Week 2, and loved Lera Boroditsky’s talk on how language shapes the way we think. I didn’t know that there were some languages that did not have words for numbers or that there were so … Continue reading
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Task 1: What’s in my bag?
Hi, I’m Linda. I am an instructional designer and course & educational technology assistant at the University of Toronto. This task is based on Ellie Brown’s bag series that “explores the duality between the way people characterize themselves in public … Continue reading
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