Week 1 had students participate in the group task The Marshmallow Challenge. unfortunately, I was unable to attend week 1 class so I tackled The Marshmallow Challenge on my own. firstly I had 20 spaghetti sticks, sticky tape and I used a little cardboard box my film comes in because I was all out of…
Benefits of Social Media in learning and engagement and my Podcast
My most recent podcast addresses the topic of Social Media and its benefits in relation to learning and engagement. I approach the topic through the lens of personal experience. Recently I was assigned a group assignment that was fundamentally an online assignment with the group collaborating through different digital platforms, most notably Social Media. I…
Educational Gamification and my opinion
According to the Oxford dictionary, the definition of Gamification is: “The application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.” The application of Gamification in the educational context can…
Growing with my online identity!
Everybody online today has their hands on multiple social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter and Reddit, and numerous others! With the increasing number of platforms available to them, users find themselves experimenting, projecting and sometimes representing different personas of themselves depending on the audience. The online environment is a virtual space which…
Thierry Henry, best player in Premier league history?
Thierry Henry is a French footballer who is currently retired at the age of 41. Henry made a name for himself Arsenal Football Club in London after signing with the club in 1999 from Juventus in Turin Italy. Henry started his first two seasons relatively well considering he struggled at Juventus with only 3 goals…
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