{"id":6206,"date":"2026-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/09\/12\/20260911-week-1\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:28:28","slug":"20260911-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/09\/12\/20260911-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"20260911 Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all for joining our class meeting yesterday, with apologies to those who were prevented from joining by my Zoom settings. It is up to you to ensure that you can access the class meeting in Zoom each week, so please ensure that you <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/09\/11\/zoom\/\"><strong>follow these instructions<\/strong><\/a> before Thursday, September 17<\/em><\/strong>, test your Zoom login, <strong>then<\/strong> contact me if you have difficulty. If you are logged in properly, you should end up in the waiting room of the session.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/social-spaces-with-colin-fall-2026-a01\/\">you can catch the recording linked on our Social Spaces page.<\/a> &#8211; password was sent in my \u2018Welcome to EDCI 336 (A01)\u2019 announcement. Please note that I will be recording future classes for accessibility purposes, but I will not share those recordings with the whole class. You must attend class.<\/p>\n<section class=\"level2\">\n<h2 class=\"anchored\" data-anchor-id=\"things-to-do-this-week-before-our-next-class-meeting\">Things to do this week (before our next class meeting)<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"task-list\">\n<li><label><strong>Sign up<\/strong> for a WordPress site at <a href=\"https:\/\/opened.ca\/\">the OpenETC<\/a><\/label>\n<ul class=\"task-list\">\n<li><label><strong>Contact<\/strong> me by Wednesday, September 16 if you have difficulties signing in to your site (e.g., you see the error message that your site is being set up and to check back in a few minutes)<\/label><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><label><a href=\"https:\/\/uvic-my.sharepoint.com\/:x:\/g\/personal\/cmadland_uvic_ca\/IQCIuiQDL0F-QJbJDAjv9WNfAec8g9Gq2XZZHbKqMJUhap4?e=4rK3Gy\"><strong>Sign up<\/strong> for a Learning Pod<\/a> &#8211; UVic Login Required. Do not edit anyone else\u2019s information please.<\/label><\/li>\n<li><label><strong>After<\/strong> you have access to your own website on the OpenETC, <a href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/surveys-for-a01-with-colin\/\">visit our Social Spaces page and complete the two surveys linked here.<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n<li><label><strong>Watch<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp.library.uvic.ca\/videos\/viewlinks.php?vfn=Most-Likely-To-Succeed-(2015).mp4\">Most Likely to Succeed<\/a> &#8211; UVic Library login required.<\/label><\/li>\n<li><label><strong>Read<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/alpha-schools-ai-teaching-model-is-expanding-does-it-work\/\">Alpha School wants AI to teach a Billion kids. Should it?<\/a> &#8211; Let me know if you can\u2019t access this link.<\/label>\n<ul class=\"task-list\">\n<li><label><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/discussions\/should-ai-be-in-charge-of-education\/\">Also read the discussions related ot this article.<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you all for joining our class meeting yesterday, with apologies to those who were prevented from joining by my Zoom settings. It is up to you to ensure that you can access the class meeting in Zoom each week,&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/09\/12\/20260911-week-1\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a01-with-colin-fall-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}