I really enjoyed working with Audacity. With some practice, it could definitely be a great tool to use in a variety if ways. All sorts of applications come to mind for my middle school classroom. I had been thinking of… Continue Reading →
Jamie Garland is the Director of Operations and Communications at Regent Christian Academy, a K-12 faith-based independent school in Surrey, British Columbia. He graduated with a BA in Leadership from Trinity Western University. Jamie’s online identity is very limited with a LinkedIn account and a profile on the Regent Christian Academy website. The above bio reflects […]
After watching the TED talk that discussed the third party sites that track your information on the internet, I was interested to see what Lightbeam would show me. After opening Firefox and installing the add-on I visited 8 different websites. I browsed between the pages and clicked on a couple of videos. When I checked […]
This past weekend I witnessed a young person experience the unfortunate result of public shaming based on something they posted on a few online platforms. The post that was made was clearly done in the heat of the moment and ended up backfiring on the person who made it. While this was a careless mistake, […]
As I began to set up my site with pages and a blog I leaned on my very basic knowledge of WordPress that I have been developing over the last year when our school moved to WordPress for our website’s platform. It seems to me that as we gain more understanding of what is to […]
The initial account creation and sign in to hypothes.is went pretty smoothly and I found myself ready to read the Manifesto. Now up to this point in my life, I have not really had what you might call a strong online presence. I do have social media accounts but my activity is sporadic at best. […]
This was another fun activity – something which I had never done before, but was actually quite easy. At first I thought it would be intimidating and onerous, but I quickly discovered the ease with which it could be done. […]
I admit that this was more fun of an activity than I expected! I have always been interested in photography, however my photos always seem to be lacking and uninteresting. My teenaged daughter with her smartphone takes much more captivating […]
Mike Caufield’s guide was a very informative, step by step guide to fact checking. I enjoyed reading through it, and trying out the steps with a few of the samples from his blog. With so much fake news, viral photos […]
This activity was enlightening! It was interesting to see that even though I don’t regularly use Firefox and only did a few minimal searches on it (while I continued the rest of my online activity through Google Chrome), there were […]