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Feb 21 2019
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Ecampus Ontario PD and Me

This weeks’ resource can be found at https://extend.ecampusontario.ca/modules/.

Unlike the previous multimedia reflections, this time we are discussing a professional development module as opposed to a journal article. Within the PD module, they creators discuss how to integrate technology into the classroom, in order to solve a student’s learning challenge. Overall, the module included some interesting ideas but was overwhelmed by unnecessary jargon and a number of obvious remarks. The extend activities were supplementary tasks that could be done to improve the process, but many had minimal significance.

Oct 30 2018
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The Red Scare: How Digital Redlining Has Infiltrated Our Society

For this week’s multimedia reflection I decided to tackle Chris Gilliard’s article Digital Redlining Access Privacy

https://www.commonsense.org/education/privacy/blog/digital-redlining-access-privacy

Overall, I found Gilliard’s article quite fascinating. Though I had been previously aware of the traditional concept of redlining, the notion of digital redlining was a new discovery.

As a student in the Greater Essex County District School Board, I often complained about the internet restrictions preventing me from reaching websites hosting video games. Not once had I stopped to think that there would be other limitations, aside from the safe search function. After attending what Gilliard considers a higher-level institution, I once again complained about my access to internet resources. I can recall, on many occasions, being blocked by a paywall on academic hosting sites but had not considered the notion of their existence being scrubbed from my search results. Gilliard’s exposition on the fact that digital redlining attempts to limit working class students, seeking an education, from discovering new ideas and pathways in life.

To cover the ideas represented in Gilliard’s article, I decided to create a twitter thread incorporating gifs to highlight important concepts.

Oct 02 2018
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Digital Paranormal Activity and You

Hello folks, for this week’s multimedia assignment I chose to review Ashley Hinck’s article “Digital Ghosts in the Modern Classroom.” The original article can be find here: http://hybridpedagogy.org/digital-ghosts-modern-classroom/

https://create.piktochart.com/output/33034323-digital-ghosts-critique

Hinck’s article covered a unique subject, the influence of template based software on education. Her stance led me to create an infographic, which I used to break down her argument into small statements and then reflect or respond accordingly. Overall, I found her article fascinating but limited to her field of study in post-secondary. In my opinion, the basis for her argument assumes that students are capable of creating digital content without any templates, yet this is impractical for a non-digital media based course. This is extremely limiting in a K-12 environment, where students may encounter issues using the simpler templates. In my own experience using Piktochart, a simple template platform according to Hinck, I encountered a major issue resulting in the link to my artifact not being usable. Similarly, various colleagues of mine struggled uploading images to WordPress with the proper resolution.

Adam Drouillard

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