Creating Community in our Language and Career College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZUnMQhx2o
Creating Community in our Language and Career College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZUnMQhx2o
Culture has an important role in learning. I hope to spotlight empathy and the diversity of cultures/contexts. My design will address the lack of community in our digital learning environments. Utilizing short microlearning events either synchronously or asynchronously and limiting the workload for stakeholders. I have chosen Agile as it will allow for the co-creation of content and will allow for change as our organization’s relationship with technology changes. Bates, T. (2015). Chapter 4.7 ‘Agile’ Design: flexible designs for learning. In Teaching in the digital age. BCcampus. https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/ Buchem, I., & Hamelmann, H. (2010). Microlearning: a strategy for ongoing professional development (341323117)....
Glossary of TikTok Vocabulary CEO The “CEO of” comment trend is starting to appear on TikTok. In real life, CEO means “Chief Executive Officer”. On TikTok, to be called CEO of something means that you are best at it. OOMF OOMF stands for “One of my friends” or “One of my followers”. According to Urban Dictionary, OOMF is often used negatively to talk about people behind their backs. Cheugy This term refers to people or objects that were a bit out of touch with current trends. It is the opposite of being trendy. Go Little Rockstar “Pope is a Rockstar” is a track by the American Indie band, SALES, that recently went viral on TikTok. The song has a line “Pope is a Rockstar” but people commonly misheard it as “Go little rockstar”. “Go Little Rockstar” is one of the most wholesome trends on TikTok where people celebrate achievements of many kinds or even just memorialize lost...
In today’s fast changing world, what social media is popular among adolescents can shift quickly. TikTok’s sudden rise in popularity has many looking carefully at what the app is, its terms of service, privacy policy, and its algorithms. Our team has chosen to examine TikTok as a learning tool in the classroom. In our team of Stephanie, Angela and London, half of us had a TikTok account and half didn’t. Members who were new to the app were tasked to record their experiences and feelings using this technology for the first time. For myself who had been a holdout to adopting this technology, finally signing up was easy and quick. I was immediately presented with the terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy (PP) which I decided to review carefully. Next, there was a short orientation followed by a request to allow notifications. All of these steps seemed very...
Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSofBC), has been leveraging Microsoft tools in our work supporting newcomers to Canada. Many of the teams in our organization are located in different departments and occasionally on different campuses. For instance, our settlement team worked in a different location than the Language and Career College (LCC). Very often one team was unaware of what the other team was doing. Often there were a lot of paper files in cabinets or files located on computers in their respective departments that were not accessible to the organization as a whole, creating data silos. Emails and phone calls made retrieving information time consuming. Some of our senior leaders realized that as a midsize nonprofit organization that was growing fast and as we approached our 50th anniversary, we needed to think ahead and plan for the next 50 years. The goal of...
Our organization uses a hyflex model that was initially adopted as a temporary measure but has proven popular with students and less so with instructors. A hybrid-flexible or hyFlex course is a student-centered model of class delivery that can integrate in-class instruction, online synchronous video sessions, or asynchronous content delivery. Due to its popularity with students, it is likely to become a permanent change. There are three main challenges I see that could be addressed to better manage this digital change: instructor burnout, instructor buy-in and lack of data analytics for larger classes and classes that have a longer duration. First, now that the hyflex model is here to stay, instructor burnout should be a priority for our organization. By gathering data about the time instructors spend on preparing, creating, and marking could be the first step. Understanding how much...