As a high school student in the late 1990’s I attended a medium-sized school – big enough to perhaps not know all of my peers’ names, but small enough to visually recognize just about everybody as also being in my school. This included many students that I would see in some places (for example, around…
How would you know if you were living through some kind of ‘end times’? You might look for signs of some kind of degradation: perhaps people lose trust in one another and the idea of the social contract, maybe the economy collapses and everyone reverts to a pre-commerce state … or maybe it’s something less…
I was early to Facebook, signing up when you required some kind of institutional email (in my case my Uvic one) to gain access. This isn’t a hipster statement (that’d be me pointing out that my original email address was doug@ some variety of warm email service before the spam became completely unmanageable and I…
I can remember it vividly: flexible ducting that almost reached my wrists, something approximating a papier-maché mask, a grey-painted cardboard box (including buttons), and some grey gloves. Perhaps most importantly there were also two bottles of beer, each on their road to completion. Nearby were two lengths of ducting that fit over the legs as…
Current coordinates: For this course I am looking at the impacts on and applicability of various social media formats to a secondary school learning environment, as a teacher currently working in the BC public school system. As an older student who got to watch the idea of social media rise through the hotmail/ICQ chat days…