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Greetings from Calgary

By Dan Bosse on May 10, 2016

Good Morning,

 

I am a grade 3-8 band, music, science, outdoor ed, art, and occasionally robotics/programming teacher at a K-8 school just outside of Calgary. This is by 7/8th course in the ETEC program and I am also enrolled in ETEC 540 this term.

My ed-tech interests include efficiencies with technology, parent communication, virtual/augmented reality, gamification, and assessment through technology. I have limited webpage building skills, which I guess I’ll be growing this term, but have experience in game creation with a few different engines, basic programming, 360 image creation, and augmented reality creation. In the research methods course I prototyped a rhythm assessment program/tool using the scratch programming environment as well.

My entrepreneurial skills include budget management for our music program, fundraising/proposal writing, and selling people on ideas from 1-1 settings to 1-500+.

I chose to enroll in ETEC 522 because of the increasing roll expensive technologies are playing in our school. I am hoping that adding some savvy on the venture side will help me to better select technologies that won’t vanish or lose support and increase my ability to support school and district tech initiatives.

Outside of the ETEC world I ballroom dance, rock climb, camp and attempt to house train our new puppy (french bulldog-boston terrier mix).

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11 May Posted on Greetings from Calgary

Hello again Dan! Glad to see you here in another course. I totally hear you when you talk about the increasing role of expensive technologies in our schools. I have seen too many decisions made based purely on "feeling" or "keeping up with the Joneses" type mentalities. Anyhow, I look forward to interacting with you again. Cheers! Gordon

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Gordon Chiu @gkchiu

Hello again Dan! Glad to see you here in another course. I totally hear you when you talk about the increasing role of expensive technologies in our schools. I have seen too many decisions made based purely on "feeling" or "keeping up with the Joneses" type mentalities. Anyhow, I look forward to interacting with you again. Cheers! Gordon

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10 May Posted on Greetings from Calgary

Hello Dan! I enjoyed reading your blog, it looks like we have quite a few common interests. Are you currently teaching any band? I was trained to be a high school band teacher when I did my undergrad at UBC and my instrument was the bass trombone. However I have not taught any band for several years but I keep up my playing in a semi-professional non-profit organization that I founded five years ago called the, "Fraser Valley Wind Ensemble." Like you I don't have a much experience in building websites as my only experience has been through, "Google Sites, Wordpress and Weebly." But I am very interested in creating game based learning designs for my Social Studies classroom. I really believe in my school District where we have "Civic Mirror" that the potential of game based learning has only just begun.

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cole anderson @coleande

Hello Dan! I enjoyed reading your blog, it looks like we have quite a few common interests. Are you currently teaching any band? I was trained to be a high school band teacher when I did my undergrad at UBC and my instrument was the bass trombone. However I have not taught any band for several years but I keep up my playing in a semi-professional non-profit organization that I founded five years ago called the, "Fraser Valley Wind Ensemble." Like you I don't have a much experience in building websites as my only experience has been through, "Google Sites, Wordpress and Weebly." But I am very interested in creating game based learning designs for my Social Studies classroom. I really believe in my school District where we have "Civic Mirror" that the potential of game based learning has only just begun.

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10 May Posted on Greetings from Calgary

Hi Dan, I have also been in pursuit of the magic decision making criteria for technology. I work primarily in the not-for-profit sector and have similarly experienced technology that goes away, is not updated or moves from 'free' into an unsustainable pay model. I know there is a 'hope' for the Open movement, but the key is that this is not 'free' either. Looking forward to learning with you.

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Briar Jamieson @briarjamieson

Hi Dan, I have also been in pursuit of the magic decision making criteria for technology. I work primarily in the not-for-profit sector and have similarly experienced technology that goes away, is not updated or moves from 'free' into an unsustainable pay model. I know there is a 'hope' for the Open movement, but the key is that this is not 'free' either. Looking forward to learning with you.

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10 May Posted on Greetings from Calgary

Hi Dan Your interests seem to align very well with my own; I'm a big support of AR/VR (using google Cardboard mostly) and love working and theorizing within the grounds of gamification. Hopefully we'll have a chance to work together in this course!

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jesse mayer @jamayer

Hi Dan Your interests seem to align very well with my own; I'm a big support of AR/VR (using google Cardboard mostly) and love working and theorizing within the grounds of gamification. Hopefully we'll have a chance to work together in this course!

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