In and Out-sights from a Teacher-Librarian and Doughnut Connoisseur
What now, brown cow?
Yesterday I handed in my last assignments for my last course in my Master of Educational Technology degree through the University of British Columbia. While I won’t graduate until May, it marks the end of an era – just shy of six years I have been plucking away at courses through UBC, first with my…
What NotebookLM Remediates (and other LLM tools too for that matter)
Imagined as a rousing political speech, with patriotic music slowly swelling in the background. Colleagues, I know many of you are excited about NotebookLM, especially that uncannily almost-human podcast feature. We upload our readings, videos, and professional documents, then receive instant synthesis supporting multimodality and differentiated instruction. But I want us to consider what’s happening…
Why I Made Ed Tech Specialists Compare Search Results for My Professional Development Session on New Materialism
As a teacher-librarian, I’m constantly making decisions about which databases to subscribe to, which search tools to recommend, which encyclopedias to point students toward. These decisions often get framed as “neutral” by just providing access to information, offering students “the right resources.” But are they? This question started nagging at me during IP 2 where…
Ursula Franklin and Prescriptive Technologies
An assignment in which I didn’t quite follow the instructions properly, but came away with a greater understanding because of it. This video was made with the help of Adobe Podcasts and additional images and text were added in CapCut. References Black, E. (2001). IBM and the Holocaust : The strategic alliance between Nazi Germany…
TikTok-ing Education
When I read this assignment outline, I immediately thought of @etymologynerd. Adam Aleksic’s posts are uniquely meta. He explains the history of our spoken and printed words and shows how that history is shaped by the media we use. In doing so, he invites viewers to understand how we’re shaped by language, how language shapes…
Software Encyclopedias
I can’t be the only person who was obsessed with Microsoft Encarta’s Mindmaze game. I had always yearned for a set of Encyclopedias… but when that free disc comes with your computer, I shortly stopped asking for them.
Media Ecology
Media ecology is the study of how media and technology function as environments that shape human perception, communication, and understanding. It looks not just at content, but at the structures and systems we build and are surrounded by, from language to smartphones, and how they shape what we can think, say, and do. Like an…
AI Essentials for Educators
Okay, so my video is a bit longer than 5 minutes, but I swear there’s a reason! My video tour is presented as a mock news segment with Artie Smarts, an animated robot newscaster. I went with this format to keep things conversational and fun while still walking through the project in detail, drawing on…
Assignment 2 – Part 2 – Reflection Time
I love a good digital story—that’s the teacher‑librarian in me. So when Part II called for one, I went big. I split the module into three chunks: a gentle, non‑academic primer on LLM limitations; Shannon Vallor’s short talk on AI as a mirror; a practical on‑ramp via a choose‑your‑own‑adventure (CYOA) story; and then some hands on…
Designing a Learning Environment
Hey readers! I’ve just finished my first stab at Assignment 2 in my Learning Technologies: Selection, Design, and Application course. It has been a learning experience full of ups and downs. But I see something of utility shaping up. You can get a login link to my course sandbox on our course Canvas page (sorry…
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