Social media and technological abundance have done so much to change the world and it is likely that we are only beginning to learn of the impact these changes are having on society and culture. Media exposure in the past would be the result of a press release, a press conference, some significant event worthy …
Brittni Arthur works with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Vancouver. She has been involved with YWAM since 2008. Brittni loves working with youth and has her diploma in Youth Work from Columbia Bible College. She works as the Youth… Continue Reading →
Online tracking is not a new concept to me. It is something I have been aware of for years. Lightbeam is rather interesting in terms of it telling me not only how many sites are tracking me but which sites… Continue Reading →
Bryan Alexander on Bonni Stachowiak’s podcast (https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/digital-literacy-now/) says that in order to have digital literacy we have to have a good “BS detector” and that digital literacy is participatory and productive. I think there are two sides to digital literacy: the… Continue Reading →
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’ …
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 recording …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I carved out time to do this project on the way to a course downtown Toronto parking at the waterfront and scouting out a small area. It included a view of Center island, Lake Ontario, the ferries, downtown buildings, condo’s and some great outdoor sculptures. Although the Toronto waterfront is a study of opposites – […]