Category: TWU Online

Sound Effect Story

Sound Effect Story

I decided to tell a story of a couple making and eating dinner. I used Freesound for all of the noise clips. I even used some of the search tips I learned in other activities to improve my searches.  I used 8 sound clips in total. The background music was chosen because it sounded ‘normal’ …

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Recording and Sharing Audio

Recording and Sharing Audio

https://anchor.fm/maddison-couturier I chose to record my simple ‘Hello World’ introduction. I found both apps very easy to use. I accidentally added to sound clips to the end of the anchor.fm app. I couldn’t figure out how to remove them. I really liked soundcloud. It was nice that you could pause and come back to the …

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1000 Words

1000 Words

I’m not very savy when it comes to taking good pictures. I don’t have a real camera, I simply use my Samsung S6 camera. So I spent the morning playing with a bunch of features that I was not aware of. I followed along with a blog post from Android Central https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6-camera-tips-and-tricks and learned a lot …

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The Art of Crap Detection

The Art of Crap Detection

I really enjoyed working through this activity. I read through almost the entire blog in one sitting. One area where I struggled was with using the google reverse image search, I could not find “Search Google for image” to appear in the “context menu”. I’m using google chrome as my web browser so I’m not …

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Great Googly Moogly

Great Googly Moogly

Reflection on the google image search activity: From the images above it is clear to see the majority of the images are of Caucasian ethnicity. Searching professor returned images of mostly men that appear to be over the age of 50. Related search terms included university, scientist, hogwarts, and animated. In contrast, the images of …

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Finding U

Finding U

Maddison Olsen is a young women from Canada. She has lived in both Athabasca, AB and Vancouver, BC. Her interests include going to the gym, cooking (and photographing) healthy recipes, reading, and helping other people live healthier lives. She seems happy and surrounded by lots of friends. However, she is private when it comes to her …

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Tracking The Trackers

Tracking The Trackers

So far this has been very eye opening. I’ve had Lightbeam running for about 15 minutes and have visited a few of my favorite sites. I visited 9 sites and I connected with 50 third party sites. It seems like the sites with more connections were online shopping sites. Where as sites that I used …

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Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy

I don’t think I know a single person who hasn’t seen the negative attacks on posts of others online. When creating online media everything is open to interpretation. Therefor the circumstances of the person reading and responding to the post greatly influence how they respond. To protect myself from participating or being victimized by internet …

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Narrating U

Narrating U

I put pen to paper and started this exercise by brainstorming all the reasons I decided to return to school. Once I had a mess of words I organized them into some common themes and choose a few to focus on. My greatest motivation is to learn more about leadership and grow my personal management skills …

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Annotating U

Annotating U

At first I found this activity to be quite frustrating. I could not figure out how to get the extension to open! But after some trouble shooting, I was successful.   I’m excited to use this tool to interact in the upcoming courses.  This tool allows for the sharing of knowledge in such a simple …

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