Jesse

Instructional Designer interested in #EdTech #MobileLearning #iPad #eLearning #Gamification All views are my own.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

I stand in solidarity with all the Twitter employees who have quit in response to @elonmusk’s unreasonable demands that they “work long hours at high intensity” or be fired. #Solidarity #UnionizeTwitter

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

When you start your day by baking bread, at the very least you know you won’t be hungry later. 😂

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

Personally (not necessarily institutional policy) but I’ll generally accept any work up until the last day I could possibly accept and assess it and still get my grades into the database by the institutional deadline.

[swm @sheathescholar]

folks who teach in higher ed — what’s your late work policy?

p.s. I’m mostly interested in hearing from people who teach through a lens of equity/justice in their classrooms

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

…that week. They were all wearing these moulded white paper masks the nurses had left on their seats that morning. Mrs. Armbruster had just explained the meaning of the word pandemic.” -Virtual Light, 1991

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@GreatDismal Also predicted the pandemic: “He’d been dreaming about Mrs. Armbruster’s class, fifth grade at Oliver North Elementary. They were about to be let out because LearningNet said there was too much Kansas City flu to keep the kids in Virginia and Tennessee in school…

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

I’m actually surprised that in Gibson’s Sprawl universe ‘the matrix’ isn’t something that regular folks interact with very directly or frequently. His descriptions of simstim are closer to our current experience technology, and the Metaverse may take it a step closer.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

Yep, in the same book, Count Zero, he describes “a special program for the apartment’s phone, one that filtered out incoming calls from any number that wasn’t listed in her permanent directory.”

[Chris LItes @NakedSasquatch]

@JesseBalanyk @GreatDismal And blocking calls, I think?

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

The quote actually continues:”…erasing blemishes and subtly moulding facial features to meet idolized statistical norms.”

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

Yes, Count Zero chapter 25 KASUAL/GOTHICK right at the start of the chapter in reference to the Finn’s video answering machine message.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

Except mobile phones. People in the sprawl trilogy still used phone booths, just video phone booths.

[Hellhammer @Hellhammer9999]

@JesseBalanyk @GreatDismal Don't you know @GreatDismal predicted EVERYTHING... that was, that is and that will be.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

So apparently @GreatDismal predicted filters in 1986: “Most phone programs were equipped with cosmetic video subprograms written to bring the video image of the owner into greater accordance with the more widespread paradigms of personal beauty”.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@mevansCBC I really appreciate your very empathetic voice reporting on the situation in Ukraine right now. Great journalism.

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@HRCE_NS Good call. Thanks!

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@DoctorLindy Meeeee toooooo!

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

OMG I can’t believe today is... another day. (Anyone else feel like this after a more than a year effectively in lockdown?)

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@theJagmeetSingh Keep it classy let @AnnamiePaul run without NDP opposition in the upcoming Toronto Centre By Election. 👍🏼#KeepItClassy

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@instagram Why am I seeing three or four times as many sponsored posts today? Are you experimenting to see if I’d notice. I did.

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

Devil’s advocate. Does a classroom make students sign terms and conditions? Does it collect their data and (maybe or maybe not) monetize it? Is it built in a way that the average teacher doesn’t know how, when, or whether they can move chairs, turn on lights, close doors, etc.?

[Apple Education @AppleEDU]

We’ve designed 30 Creative Activities for Kids — or for the whole family — as part of our ongoing effort to support at-home learning. We can’t wait to see what you create! #CreativityForKids https://t.co/3LMwO6SzwB

[Jesse @JesseBalanyk]

@CPHO_Canada Hello, Dr. Tam. Can you please let me know where the public can find and download the presentation deck that was provided to reporters containing your department’s modeling projection data. Thanks!