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Hypothesis: My New Favourite Tech

Ask my classmates, my partner, or anyone else I know who happens to need to do any sort of collaborative work online, whether that be for work or school, and they will tell you how much I have raved about… Continue Reading →

Update: Free Inquiry Goals

Here’s a recap of the goals I set/things I want to get out of this free inquiry project and an update about how they’re going: (1) I want something to do with my hands while I watch bad TV. This… Continue Reading →

My Fingers are Clumsy

I do not have a dominant hand or side of the body but rather perform certain tasks with my right hand, certain tasks with my left, and other tasks I can perform with either. While there are some tasks for… Continue Reading →

Battleground WordPress: Technology vs. Technology in Education

On one side of my family, I am surrounded by educators. My uncle retired last year after teaching for 30 years — well, semi-retired as he now works as a TOC. My aunt has worked in schools in various administrative/secretarial… Continue Reading →

Being as Adaptable as our Brains

Is a Lack of Imagination Bad? An interesting thing that I’ve noticed about myself is that I do not have a particularly vivid visual imagination. I never have. I didn’t pay much attention to this over the years because it… Continue Reading →

Getting Started

Last week, I unboxed (unpackaged?) the simple embroidery kit I had ordered. This week, I started stitching. As my video from last week showed, the instructions provided with the kit were pretty minimal. As I figured, I had to rely… Continue Reading →

The World-Changing Potential of Teens’ Digital Footprints

Managing Digital Footprints – Why? So far in class, we have discussed digital footprints — mostly our own paranoia about those we’ve made and how they may be used against us in the future by vindictive parents, which seems like… Continue Reading →

Turning Old Skills into New Ones: Learning to Make/Edit Videos

This is going to be a running theme with this blog — I have never considered myself very technically proficient. I never had any real reason to be. My undergraduate and graduate programs were both academic, research-oriented programs in which… Continue Reading →

Stitching Inside the Lines: A Free Inquiry

I do not, typically, view myself as a particularly creative or artistic person. I was never very good at drawing, painting, ceramics, or anything like that — though that could have been (probably was) due to a lack of real… Continue Reading →

Setting up this Blog: Performing Simple Tasks in Complex Contexts

  I have used blogs before. I had a Tumblr at some point — not quite a blog, technically “social media,” but still a blog — and I have used various blogs in different classes throughout my post-secondary education. I’ve… Continue Reading →

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