Category Archives: ETEC540 Tasks

You Decide the Speculative Future: Interactive Video Please enjoy my low budget branching video. There are eight possible paths. Note: You’ll get feedback about correct/incorrect, but there are no correct/incorrect answers. This is just a necessary artifact from creating an interactive … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed playing User Inyerface! I assumed that a troll built the game and I had to play within their logic. What tripped me up in some points of the game were that I started to trust the logic … Continue reading →

How Similarly or Not Were We Grouped? From just the class section data, I was grouped with Carla, Tanya, Emily, and Rebecca. I noticed that all of Tanya’s choices are also choices that at least one other person selected. I … Continue reading →

10 Songs from the Golden Record From the Voyager’s Golden Record, I narrowed the playlist down to 10 songs. Tchenhoukoumen recorded by Charles Duvelle | Senegal Flowing Streams performed by Kuan P’ing-hu | China Kinds of Flowers recorded by Robert … Continue reading →

The purpose of the What’s in Your Bag task was to unearth identities that we hide within unexpected objects in our bags. When I first did this task, the weirdest and most useless objects in my bag were my Ontario … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →