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This course was unlike the others I had taken in the MET program – it didn’t really deal with any pedagogy or direct application of technology to teaching, it dealt a lot more with the administrative side of educational technology in an organizational context. Being exposed to the institutional perspective...
Presentation: Contemporary Authoring with H5P November 14th, 2017. This presentation was given by John Allan (member of the CNA-Q Blended Learning Committee) as part of a regular series of talks hosted by the Doha eLearning Developers Guild. John introduced and demonstrated some of the features of a relatively new eLearning...
Here is a real situation from my lab (this happened just today): I’m in my 200-level Cell Biology lab, trying to get my students to figure out how to do a particular (simple) calculation – I don’t want to just give them a formula to memorize (and forget on an...
When I started out teaching, all that was available to me was chalk and a blackboard (actually, three blackboards). I quickly learned 3 things about teaching: Students want to learn Presenting content in an appealing way makes a difference Coloured sidewalk chalk is the way to go when you’re working...
To me, one of the more useful exercises in ETEC 512 was the Lesson Plan Assignment. Not having had any formal teaching training, I had no experience developing lesson plans – my lessons were generally planned out in my head, and they generally involved lists of things I needed to...
I wrote this summary to help me remember some of the details of this PD session. I tried to include as much detail as possible. Professional Development Session on Problem Based Learning February 17th, 2015. Presentation was given by Dr. Wendy Newstetter from Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. It really...
My first formal exposure to teaching theory was through a college course dealing specifically with adult education. I chose this course in the hopes of gaining some background knowledge which would help me to better understand education research. I also felt that it would help me tailor my teaching to...
The idea of using virtual reality, or augmented reality, or 3D video has come up several times throughout the MET program, and they are featured as ‘Important Developments in Educational Technology’ in the 2016 NMC Horizon Report (Johnson et al., 2016). So, it’s not surprising that a related idea “popped...
One of the first assignments in ETEC 510 was the production of a stop-motion video for the course wiki. Because it was my first video and I didn’t feel comfortable voicing it (too many “um”-s and “aah”-s), I chose to do it in the form of a silent film. One...
As my partner and I worked on our OER on Self-Directed Learning for ETEC522, we needed to plan some activities for our fellow students. We would need them in order to be able to host a week-long interaction with the educational resource we were preparing. We planned to release various...
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