My audio recording experience to date includes a background with using Voice Memo on iPhone, some music dubbing on GoPro and video interview/essays via YouTube; and by far, my experience with this exercise was the worst. I can appreciate the intention of this exercise to familiarize ourselves with various mediums and tools to communicate or …
In all forms of non-digital communication, I have developed the practice of “think before I speak”. I am continually amazed however that I have the temptation to respond quickly or spontaneously to a social media post or other digital platform… Continue Reading →
Hello everyone, Thank you all for digging into the orientation and for your depth of insight. While we are a little spread out over a few activities in the orientation, that is fine. A few of us are just getting started while others are well on their way. I think that it is worth noting […]
This course prompt was timely since only yesterday my daughter asked me if I knew about the 15 people who died from a Legionnaires outbreak at the London Drugs at Guildford Mall. She said, “Look Dad (pointing to her phone), it’s an actual, real story”. Even before I wanted to see her phone, I said …
For a few years now, I have been consciously trying to use “ixquick”, which is now called “startpage” for browsing the web. In brief, this browser (like a few others) uses the search results cache from Google without giving personal user information or their IP addresses to Google servers, because whether we like it or …
As found through multiple search engines, Matt Squirell is a Director of Sales for the Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Company of New York and is a father of two children and husband to Kimberlee Squirell who all live at 14756 16A Avenue in Surrey, British Columbia Canada. Matt is active on social media sites such as …
As it relates to my browsing activities on the web, the assigned Track the Tracker exercise left me with a greater sense of empowerment; yet, at the same time, unease in terms of just how deep the rabbit hole of surveillance really goes. I tried a few common sites such as LuluLemon, Patagonia, Drudge Report, …
In the context of the available standard digital tools within the “brick and mortar” business world, I would consider myself to be a respectful, conscientious and digitally literate participant when communicating my ideas and thoughts with others. However, in light of the rapid proliferation of social media engines, I sense that the basic digital platforms …
Mike’s guide is extremely helpful as a resource when it comes to fact checking online. I knew about Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.org, but the other fact checking organizations were all new to me. I think the 4 moves that Mike… Continue Reading →
I think I have always known that Google has “biases”, but I never thought about it much in practice. I think these biases can be based on browser history, country searched within, culturally understood gender roles, understanding in a culture… Continue Reading →