Author: npham49
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Reflection: Resources on work-from-home well-being and Ergonomics
As someone who has been working from home for around 3 years now, I wanted to take a look at the resources provided by UVic and reflect on my own Ergonomics. I do own an anti-bluelight set-up, standing desk and auto dimming monitor light, so I’m quite excited to see what I can learn and…
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Reflection: Talk on Waniskâw Foundation by Nodin Cutfeet
The Concept This week’s content is focused on an Indigeous platform that empowers creativity and self-expression through digital art and coding. Nodin highlighted within this talk that the system that they created focuses on compiling contributions across different learners. A “Peer-to-peer” knowledge transfer system. This point resonated quite well with me, majority of the technology…
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Reflection: Talk on “datafication” and algorithmic decision-making
Overview One of the most memorable points I retained from this talk is the concept of “datafication” how all of our services and our public service platforms are all now digitalized, by extension making all our inputs available as data points. The speaker argues that since there are more data, the algorithmic decision-making process becomes…
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Reflection: BC Digital Learning Strategy Priority 1
BC’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills compiled a list of strategies for supporting post-secondary systems with digital learning in BC. This is available at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/post-secondary-education/institution-resources-administration/digital-learning-strategy. For this reflection I wanted to focus on a point that I think is the most important, modernization of Policies and Processes in education. This list covers 3…
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Reflection: Inquiry process and talk with Jeff Hopkins
The concept of inquiry During the talk with Jeff Hopkins on Inquiry-based learning, I ended up reflecting on my approach to studying and learning new skills. Personal interest and curiously has always been my main drive for learning, Jeff expanded it by framing the questions that I would ask myself rather than focusing on topics.…
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Reflection: Digital Citizenship talk with Jesse Miller
Reviewing Jesse’s talk gave me quite a bit of insight into technology and privacy. For this reflection I do want to focus on the point that resonated the most with me: how technological evolution improved our connections but breaks down our privacy walls. This made me think about modern networking platforms like LinkedIn, specifically the…
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Inquiry: Application design
User stories Based on the requirements we collected in the previous blog, we can move to create some user stories: Screens Now that we know what we want the user to be able to do within the app, let’s design the screens available within the app, our goal for each screen is to cover a…
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Inquiry: Selecting a framework and initial app requirements
Development frameworks Luckily in 2025, developing an app is much easier, there are multiple cross-platform frameworks based on popular web development frameworks. There are even some that are specifically designed for developer experience as well! Considering my previous experience with React, I wanted to look at frameworks that would mimic the development experience you would…
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Inquiry: Narrowing down app idea
As part of the inquiry feedback, the TA recommended that I narrow down the topic. This blog post basically specifies the process I used to pin point an app idea, and maybe outline some app requirements/ user stories at the end! Let’s decide on an app idea I’ve been an avid reader of the https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/…