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Hello everyone, hope that everyone is safe, healthy, and avoiding cabin-fever! We had our second Technology class online using the conference feature today, with 5 presentations. The Ed Tech presentation that Tania, Celine, Ally, Leah and Melanie did on Vooks was informative and relevant to our pandemic situation right now. Vooks is an app thatContinue reading “April 8th – Blog Post”

Hi OTECB fam! I am sure many of us can relate to the last two weeks feeling like they have been much longer than fourteen days, with March Break, social distancing, and new routines and ways of life settling in. I will say that I am enjoying the return to school and the added structureContinue reading “Back to Life, Back to Reality…Sort of”

Hello fellow Quarantiners! Today’s post is going to be to the tune of “Living La Vida Loca” by Ricky Martin. If you do not know this tune…please take a minute to watch it on YouTube. You know how to do that because you are all techno wizards. NU’s number one group….is obvi OTECB. Online isContinue reading “Living CoVIDA Loca!”

Hello fellow bloggers! What a time to be alive (literally, thank you God for my good health)! It’s a crazy world we are living in. I hope this post finds you well and you are keeping safe and healthy!  When we started this semester, I knew this course on educational technology was going to haveContinue reading “Quaren-teaching : Teaching and Learning in this COVID World”

Our current reality due to the worldwide pandemic requires people to self isolate and stay home as much as possible. This can be extremely challenging, especially with the nice weather around the corner and having young children at home. Luckily we live in an age where technology offers a vast amount of entertainment and learningContinue reading “Augmented Reality During Quarantine: Group C”

Prior to this presentation from my fellow peers about the Kandinsky Method, I had no idea about the amazing resource available online to students: Chrome Music Lab. This online resource, free of charge, aligns with the Visual Arts of the Ontario curriculum of which students are able to make music through art. There are variousContinue reading “Learning About The Kandinsky Method”

Through the advice of Paul Davis, we learned that every time we use the internet of a social media platform, we leave a trail, and every time we save something in the cloud there is a physical location in which this information is being saved, that it is not actually in the sky and untouchable.Continue reading “Student Education for the online world”

Blog Entry #2: Kleine Manansala This week’s Ed Tech presentation explored the ways of practicing safe use of the internet. Group C introduced a program called Be Internet Awesome which enables students to explore different ways of using the internet safely. This program is offered by Google which makes it very accessible and easy toContinue reading “Practicing Safe Browsing”

This weeks group presented chapter 6 by discussing the revolution of technology and how teachers are the exclusive agents responsible for the task of ensuring that prescribed knowledge and skills are effectively transmitted to students. The chapter analyzed and asks if it’s time that we reinvent school to keep up with the advancement of technology.Continue reading “Making it Right”

Technology is used more extensively after school than in school because students find real audience in after school technology environments, because they find a real outlet for their creativity, and because they find some kind of freedom—freedom to follow their interests, freedom to pursue niche knowledge that is dismissed by schools, freedom to learn fromContinue reading “Strano’s Typity-Taps”