Welcome Everyone to Week 12 – Wearables!

Good work week 12! My knowledge of this market went from nothing to understanding well. I think you were given a tough market as wearables are not yet in education. I'm not sold on wearables outside of education either but now I see the application, especially in the health sector. I found your website and your content well organized and easy to follow. I also quite liked the google plus community. Good work!

This was another great week of learning and expanding my knowledge base. Initially I had concerns about using two learning spaces and possibility of having to navigate and frequently check different sites. The layout of the learning eliminated this hassle, as you provided numerous links to the appropriate learning environment. The opening video was very clever and elevated my level of enthusiasm for wearable technology. The activities built on each other to extend and deepen learning. Activity 3 effectively reviewed information and had the learner put their new knowledge into practice by dressing a student with appropriate wearable technology. I appreciated the text versions of some of the information. I like to read the text to reinforce what I have heard. The tutorials were also useful to support the learning and use of different tech tools. Great work team 12!

Nicely done week 12! I feel much more informed after taking part in the activities you set out this week. I've been a bit skeptical of wearables since they first started to appear, especially when talking about them in education. I could not see much beyond there health and fitness applications and even those types of uses seemed a bit useful but very unnecessary to the average consumer. I found that the Google community was a great medium for the group to present a wide range of problems and solutions that would ultimately change my view on the technology. The versatility of wearables makes it similar the 3D printing, both technologies seem so deep in functionality that it will take some time before many of their possibilities will be discovered. Your multi-viewpoint brainstorming activities were perfectly matched for this scenario.

Congrats week 12! What a great finale! You really focused the activities around exploring the market as well as the educational benefit. This must have been difficult to do, but it was seamless and really got me thinking about both using wearable technology and investing in it. I think that this was really the intention of the assignment. The use of a google community was a great idea in that most of us already have a google account, however, it is still a private community. So although your website will remain open, the discussion around it will not. The videos were excellent, however, there were quite a few, which I sometimes find distracting. That being said they were short and well done, it is just nice to have a text version as well for those of us who don't learn well from video. Thanks again, great work!

Group 12, your introduction video was creative and fit in well with your topic. Your OER was full of engaging activities and interesting information. However, I found myself struggling to create a wearable technology for the first part of your activities. This led me to procrastinate on my participation, because I felt like I couldn't come up with a good idea like everyone else (now I know how some students may feel when there's pressure to create and display a product following certain criteria and time constraints!). Although I felt this way, I still found your activities to be very fun. They made us consider the viewpoints of a designer, investor, and educator--how neat! The multiple perspectives reinforced the concepts we have been exploring in ETEC 522. I also appreciated the platform you all chose. The Google+ community was a great way to host the activities and discussions. Overall, excellent work! Thanks!

@ruddy28 Thank you! Going last can be a bit stressful... The typo is corrected.

Review Group 12 Wearables: Amazing Launchpad video! What an astounding week. Your OER was well designed and packed with valuable information that was easy to navigate. There was a lot of information to go through but it was all valuable, interesting and well presented. Your activities were engaging and thought provoking and expanded the field of wearable technology. The ability to wear different hats (designer, educator and investor) made for a well-rounded learning experience that drew on all the skills we have been working towards, scaffolding our learning nicely. I love that you used Google tools and a Google+ community to provide a complete learning experience. You accomplished the impossible for the week our A3 is due…you engaged us! Well done! The only correction I saw was the typo on Medical Wearable device page: “Designed to improve the quality of live for people with hearing loss,” ~ It should be life