{"id":1310,"date":"2017-01-30T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2017-01-30T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:49:44","slug":"the-virtual-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/30\/the-virtual-context\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major theme that seems to be emerging for myself as I progress through the course is the focus on brick-and-mortar classrooms of math and science and how technology can be used to make these spaces technology- enhanced.\u00a0 We saw this in the video cases presented in Module A.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious however of how virtual classrooms fit into the scope of the course so far.\u00a0 If a technology-enhanced space is a classroom in a school with tools like smartboards or motion sensor equipment connected to a computer, how can a virtual classroom qualify to be a technology-enhanced space?<\/p>\n<p>For example, Elluminte Live is a popular conferencing tool used by virtual schools for live interaction between teacher and students.\u00a0 Is it appropriate to say the Elluminate Live window of one live class is the &#8220;classroom&#8221;?\u00a0 If so, would tools like powerpoints, simulations, google docs, LMS based discussions, quizzes, chat systems allow for the Elluminate live classroom to be technology-enhanced?<\/p>\n<p>It would be great to get some feedback from peers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major theme that seems to be emerging for myself as I progress through the course is the focus on brick-and-mortar classrooms of math and science and how technology can be used to make these spaces technology- enhanced.\u00a0 We saw this in the video cases presented in Module A. I&#8217;m curious however of how virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-design-of-teles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}