Bobbi K
Bobbi is an industrial & interaction geek in Vancouver BC. She graduated from Emily Carr University where the door handles sometimes have knitted cozies and the students build tiki huts and other odd little hidey-holes to work from in the studio. She is not a teacher but loves learning, tech, and teaching. She enjoys nerding out, random walks, playing the guitar, doodling, more nerding, hiking, reading, and all things creative.
A3: Let•mino Pitch
Reflection: For this assignment I chose to use a combination of video slides, images, and animation with voice over. I’m accustomed to presenting weekly pitches about my work to a very different audience (who delve deeply into design, but not into the business aspects of presenting a pitch). This project was an excellent opportunity for […]
Massive e-learning/LMS compilation & Innovation arguments – to LMS or not to LMS?
I was surfing around for information on different LMS system, apps, add-ons, tools and APIs and stumbled across this list/book of “Vendors of Learning Management and E-Learning Management and learning products” by Don McIntosh. It’s a fairly exhaustive list of the top vendors, course authoring tools, LMS, LCMS, ELMS, as well as changed and discontinued […]
W07: Code Education Recap & Tally
We just want to send a thank you out to everyone for the wonderful, lively, and insightful participation in our OER activities this week. We consider you, our peers, to be “real world protagonists” in this market, and are very happy that our efforts to involve you in the process of refining and expanding our […]
ETEC 522 – Assignment 1 Venture Analysis – Marqueed
URL: http://app.emaze.com/465823/a1#slidenum=1 Since my chosen topic was a web-app for design & dynamic media I chose to use a new dynamic presentation tool within that realm. There are extended media links indicated by arrows within the file, and also an external link to a basic SWOT analysis used to compose the report. Little information was […]
W07: Code Education Launchpad
Welcome to week 07 (Open Free and digital content) Our group narrowed our focus to code education (programming code) at the postsecondary and professional level. One of the first sources of information online to be shared openly (free of charge, remixable and reusable) was code. Programmers have been sharing code openly since the birth of […]
W07: Activity 1
If you haven’t done so already, please view the video and complete the Activity #1 (part 1) poll on this page first. Activity #1 (Part 2) – Comment Everyone “should learn how to program [code!]” – Steve Jobs (1995). Add a comment here (using the comments box below) about your thoughts of Jobs’ view […]
W07: Activity 2
Activity #2 – Comment Pick one resource from either “open trends” or “closed trends” and discuss it in terms of one of the options below. Briefly discuss why you think it: A ) has the most disruptive potential for the future of code education [OR] B ) offers a strong value proposition for the future […]
W07: Activity 3
Activity #3 In the spirit of open, we’re choosing to crowdsource peer knowledge here for help identifying the most likely market horizons: Please review one of the predictions [on this page]. Post your review/thoughts using the reviews box on the bottom of this page discussing why your chosen prediction is a potential cutting-edge horizon […]
Review: Business English Games for ESL
For the week 6 activity, I reviewed: Business English Games for ESL http://www.businessenglishpod.com/2010/02/28/get-motivated-with-esl-business-english-games/ A summary of the different points in relation to my own context are as follows: 1. Integration The game certainly integrates learning with pay in it’s game show format, but seems perhaps a little unbalanced (more about play than learning). The game […]
Article: Creation of Useful Value Propositions
The article below is geared towards e-commerce specifically and perhaps doesn’t really fit our application needs, however I still found it useful (particularly in differentiating what a value proposition is and isn’t). While I might structure my value propositions much differently in the upcoming A3, there were perhaps some good points in terms of presentation […]
Article: Building Compelling Value Proposition
I just stumbled upon an interesting article on Forbes.com about building a compelling value proposition. It has a chart about how to best position value propositions in relation to being blatant vs latent or aspirational vs critical. I thought it might be a useful consideration for our upcoming A3 Venture pitch assignment. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelskok/2013/06/14/4-steps-to-building-a-compelling-value-proposition/
Eva’s Cafe: Innovative Value Propositions, Clashes & Fun exercises?
I had a unorthodox thought about “unique” value propositions I thought I’d share: In my undergrad before pitching/critiquing new ideas for product design, we were taught an exercise to sum up the uniqueness or edge of existing designs in one or two sentences. We had to do so while imagining that we were pitching it […]
Ayah Bdeir – Founder & CEO of littleBits
LittleBits is a product collection and open-source library of electronic technology “building blocks” for design prototyping, education and play. The product offers several different kits at varying price-points and expertise levels for rapid building an iteration, as well as individual blocks/modules for expansion. Coupled with a an online community for peer collaboration and support, users […]
hallo 522 world :)
My name is Bobbi, I’m from Vancouver BC, and this is my seventh MET course. I’m a bit of an oddball here as a design geek rather than a teacher. I find everyone’s different teaching backgrounds and experiences endlessly fascinating and am looking forward to getting to know everyone. I am interested in blending design […]