Author Archives: Omar Ahmed Shiha

We have used various tools in this class throughout the semester some of which were familiar and some of which were new. To begin with, zoom was a new tool which i had to use this semester for my online classes. Zoom was a pretty conventional tool which was used by people all over theContinue reading “Tools Reflection”

to begin with one of the most beneficial assignments that i have done in this course is without a doubt the digital literacies pathway and especially when i chose the taught pathway because it taught me about things that i did not know where there. for example one of the tools that i will useContinue reading “Final Reflection”

Step 1: Digital Confidence Profile this is a screenshot that shows my digital confidence profile, throughout the semester i have worked with different tools but if i would take the digital confidence test again i feel it would be somewhat still similar, yet i feel like there is a lot more to learn with technology.Continue reading “Digital Literacies Pathway”

My game that i finished with Randa Tawfik is about social distancing in the times of the pandemic where the player is faced with a multitude of situations/scenarios and he must choose whether to do the action or not in order to maintain social distancing protocols to lessen his chance of getting the virus. TheContinue reading “Final Draft – Game Reflection”

After watching the short video, most of the tips that they provided were either already being done or could not be applied. For example, some applications in order to work well would need my geographic location such as the fitness app, so i would be somewhat forced to turn on the location setting. And inContinue reading “Data Detox Kit Reflection”

This is the second time I watch this movie and I would like to say it is just as interesting the second time as it was the first time. It is truly remarkable how a company is able to “mine” data from millions of people and was able to alter and influence their behaviour duringContinue reading “The Great Hack – movie reflection”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFz0H1jgUfGQsNxqkWiC5mDe_hhLyt0bhBOGdkybmWc/edit?ts=5ea04a00 *we have finished 18 scenarios so far and we still have not put them in slides because we are still trying to figure it out because we have a bit of trouble doing it, but in the final draft it will be included in the google slides. My partner is Randa Tawfik

SPENT – http://playspent.org/ Playing SPENT was an eye opener, it shows how difficult life can be while being poor in america can be and how devastating ones life can be. SPENT puts you into a similar situation and it challenges you to survive a month while being poor. It sounded easy in the beginning becauseContinue reading “Games Reflection”

There has been a lot of memes, videos, news circulating the internet related to the corona virus. Some of which are funny and some of which are outright dehumanising and sad. One video that I saw which had influenced me was the video of the Chinese man that was harassed when he was riding hisContinue reading “Corona Virus Reflection”

I am an Egyptian 22 year old, I grew up in a well educated family and went to an american school and will soon be graduating from the american university in Cairo. I feel that my upbringing in this sort of environment has had an impact on who I am today and what I willContinue reading “Biases Reflection”