Mental Health through the cultural lens of different generations For this assignment, I decided to focus on what mental health means for different generations of folks. My own mental health journey is something I’ve worked at for a long time and I’ve encountered some barriers and stereotypes. I was interested to see what kinds of […]
Cochrane, Alberta: How diverse is it, really? My investigation Cochrane, Alberta, is located on Treaty 7 territory and is a short distance from the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It is often considered a suburb of Calgary and is home to around 37, 000 people (Town of Cochrane, 2024). It is “the fastest growing community in Alberta, […]
The Edmonton Oilers fan club: A subculture like no other My first experience as an Edmonton Oilers hockey fan occurred at the age of 10 when my brother-in-law took me to my first game. At the time, I knew very little about hockey but was taken with the atmosphere of being in the arena. The […]
Tiny Breathers Group project for the assignment of Making a “Usable” Learning Tool. Project Proposal: Group Members: Zoe Armstrong, Victoria Teran, Fiona Mao, and Anh Lam Background Teaching is a high-stress profession, with increasing burnout rates among educators. Teacher burnout is a “psychological syndrome teachers experience in response to chronic job stress, including emotional exhaustion, […]
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Educational technology – is it ready to be foundational to education? You don’t have to search very hard to find that the pandemic affected people differently. Many would tell you that the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. In relation to education, the learning gaps amongst students also got wider. The Canadian Commission […]
YouTube Takeover: The Displacement of the Beloved TV Cart Introduction There were two types of days that fired up an elementary school 90s kid. The first was a computer lab day. The sweet sound of 25 to 30 iMac 3Gs going off at the same time was a core memory for many. The second was […]
The work for my IP 2 Assignment can be found here.
Usability Usability is a two-way street between user and system. It encompasses the inherent competencies of each individual user as well as the capacities of the system to “show” the user how to navigate its parts to in turn find success. What is success in usability? According to Dix et al. (1998, p. 162) and […]