Blogs

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…