EDUC 5405G: Blogs

This week's EDUC 5405G class required us to explore the use of a new digital and collaborative project management tool called Trello. Although it's not the most recent tool (originally released in 2011), Trello's adept features for organizing and managing projects is often overlooked- Well, overlooked by me anyway. But, not anymore! After being introduced to the tool by Dr. Power, my classmate Jesse (view his blog here) and I decided to put it to the test for managing our tasks as research assistants this summer at UOIT. In our roles, we are responsible, as a team, for ensuring that lots of fun and complicated research related activities get done...Trello integrated well with our existing team collaborative platform. (Below is a screenshot of the various Trello commands in the Slack environment).

Greetings fellow classmates and other unexpected visitors. Welcome to my very first blog post (ever) as a part of the emerging community of inquiry in EDUC 5045G. First, a little about me. My name is Joshua and this will be my 8th course in the M.Ed project stream- which means this is my last course in the program. I am working simultaneously on the first project course with Dr. Hunter. The focus of my project involves examining design factors to ameliorate low participation and completion rates in massive open online courses based on my positive experiences with the asynchronous activities in Principle of Learning EDUC 5001G (Pol). While I worked in South Korea for several years as an English language instructor, I have returned home to Canada for the summer to finish up the program and my project. This summer, I will also be working as a research assistant to Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hunter, alongside one of our other classmates Jesse Parsons. My role in this position is to gather info