Category Archives: Acceptance

This is another artifact from ETEC 512, and it is no coincidence that the majority of my artifacts are derived from courses that allowed students to go beyond the scholarly essay, and into the world of multimedia submissions. This artifact is a simple overview / concept map of various psychological approaches to instruction and learning. I enjoyed creating this artifact and found it to be a very good reflective tool to look at what I learnt, and highlight things that resonated with me. I truly thank all the instructional designers for UBC that allowed me to “think outside the box” and apply my learning in ways that are more meaningful.

This artifact is from ETEC 512: Application of Learning Theories to Instruction. I would have to admit, this course in general took me from being rather skeptical about learning theories into the acceptance of their importance into classroom instruction. This artifact in particular had me looking at something in my past (gaming) that could be applied to my current employment (teaching). I found it incredibly interesting to look at the basics of Behaviourism and create a real life application that could be used by teachers to increase engagement.

This is another artifact from ETEC 565M on something I found to be very important, which is standardized data collection. This topic has become increasingly relevant to me as I am forced into using various learning management systems, but still finding it a very manual process transferring grades from blended applications (such as google quiz) to the gradebook of the learning management system (in my case rediker, which does not support xAPI/Scorn). As more and more work is done online, the need to standardize data collection in a virtual marksheet will become increasingly important, even in my own case using Google Quiz for the majority of my formative assessments I would love for the results (after marked) to go directly into the gradebook.