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 →
Good Afternoon Fall 2018 Cohort, My name is Matt, and it is my sincere pleasure to share this orientation and back to school basics experience with you! Once upon a time, my ageless and highly successful father used to have an old saying, He said “Matt, when it comes to leadership in today’s world, if …
Like anyone else ,my life itself is a blessing from the God Almighty and I am so blessed to be born in a traditional South Indian joint family in Kerala.Am proud to say that I am a sweet daughter to my parents,naughty sister to my brother and a lovely wife to my handsome husband Alphine […]
What I found interesting in the Podcast was how Bryan Alexander highlighted the idea of digital literacy competencies. Just as in my field of nursing, people can have read material and practiced a skill but that doesn’t make them competent in practice. In comparison, just because someone is able to use digital skills doesn’t make … Continue reading “Digital Literacy”
To be completely honest, working through this part of the orientation has been a bit of a challenge for me. I am not so far removed from school that doing online course work is foreign, but customizing my own site and using WordPress and these types of digital skills is new territory to me. I … Continue reading “Narrating U”
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 had never heard of hypothes.is before this exercise so I was thrilled to discover it and find out how it works. As someone who considers myself to be fairly tech savvy I was a little surprised at my own unawareness of this platform. In many ways, the reminder that the technological world is much …
Hey everyone – great to be connected this way and I’m looking forward to this education journey we’ll be sharing together. My wife, Sonya, and I live east of Toronto with our four incredible kids. We have the amazing privilege of living on a rural 2-acre property where we keep chickens and bees with lots …
Creating a structure for my site proved rather difficult. I want to organize the content in a way that makes sense and makes navigation easy. I know from personal use of the web that difficult navigation often results in minimal… Continue Reading →