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This category is used to collect together and to display all of the artifacts referenced in my ETEC590 ePortfolio.
This semester, I’ve started posting my pre-lab lectures as pre-recorded videos in order to allow me to spend my virtual lab-time showing my students actual slides and pointing out things of interest. One of the things I noticed was that my audience’s attention as measured by YouTube’s analytics dropped significantly...
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I recently asked my institution’s IT department about incorporating H5P support into our LMS (Blackboard). One thing lead to another, and I’ve just delivered my second PD session to introduce this fantastic tool to the faculty at my university. Presentation slides are embedded below: While I enjoyed the experience, and...
This was the final course in the MET program, and I am glad I waited to take this course until later in the program. After providing some grounding in epistemology, this course focused on Constructivism and its application to teaching. While I found the initial (Philosophy/Epistemology) portion of the course...
The Research Methodology in Education course is a core course in the MET program, and it serves to introduce students to the different approaches to research used in this field; focusing on quantitative, qualitative, and action research. The intention is to give students the tools necessary to become better consumers...
This was one of the first projects in the MET program for most of the members of my group. As a result, we did not yet have much background in the application of technology to pedagogy. We thus focused on presenting content in a way that made sense to us...
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...
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...
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