It was great to meet you all via zoom yesterday and I am looking forward to working together throughout the EdTech MEd program. I am here to support you as best I can and welcome all queries, no matter how trivial they may seem. Do not hesitate to reach out with questions or concerns, I am easily reached via Mattermost.
Please ensure you have setup your UVic email address as that is required to get your WordPress portfolio started. I believe you will find support for getting email setup on a variety of platforms and with various configurations on this link. A UVic email will also give you access to other student benefits such as software. If you do not currently have a working copy of Microsoft Office, you are able to download those apps as a student here. The Microsoft Office tools will become especially useful as we get going.
Also, with your UVic email account, you will get access to a full Zoom account. I could not tell if you were all using the Zoom app in our session this week, but you should be using the app in future. You can download the Zoom app here and get information on logging in here. I would really appreciate if you could login each week before we meet. This saves me from managing the waiting room and ensures a more blissful experience if people join late. I appreciate it.
I know some of you were super eager get setup with your portfolios, but I have updated the documentation slightly this morning to be clearer about the best practice for setup. You will find the instructions via the to do list below.
As mentioned in class, here are some tasks to get setup before next week.
- Review course syllabus and bring any questions or concerns to my attention via Mattermost or anonymously on the open agenda document available via the Social Spaces page on this website (password is in the syllabus)
- Get your wordpress blog setup
- Review past MEd inquiry blogs, example one, two, and three
- Review the opened.ca Code of Conduct
- Review Things to Consider Before Setting up your Portfolio
- Finally sign up for a WordPress blog no later than September 18th
- Customize your blog (See WordPress Tutorial)
- Post your initial reflections (and possibly a self-introduction to your blog depending on your preferences) by September 18th
- Only after blog setup and Mattermost access, complete the Learning Pathways survey by September 18
- Review the Zotero tutorial and install the software by September 18 (if you have concerns, please reach out to me)
- If you have any questions or want to share resources or ideas, please post to our private EDCI 570/571 Mattermost Channel
- Consider your areas of interest in educational technology for discussion next week.
Readings for next week
For next week, the theme is ‘The Big Picture of Educational Technology’. Please review the following three articles prior to our Tuesday meeting.
UNESCO. (2023). Global Education Monitoring Report 2023: Technology in education – A tool on whose terms? UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385723 (Not the full document! Read: v-ix, Introduction 7-14, and Recommendations 23-26 and explore further at your leisure)
Fawns, T. (2022). An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00302-7
Dron, J. (2021). Educational technology: What it is and how it works. AI & SOCIETY. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01195-z
The Slides from Week One are available below (click to advance)
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