Refs For H.6403 - A8 - 27 August 2025

 

Ball, M., Burns E. B, James, P. E., Martins, L., Schneider, R. M., & Momsen, R. P. (2025). Cultural life in Brazil. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Brazil/additional-info#contributors

Gilbert-Chatalic, M. (2012). Tradition and identity among Tibetan Americans. Anglophonia French Journal of English Studies, 31, 31–42. https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.367

Haley, A. (1976). Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ‎ Grand Central Publishing.

Kennedy, B. M., Ard, J. D., Harrison, L., Conish, B. K., Kennedy, E., Levy, E. J., & Brantley, P. J. (2007). Cultural characteristics of African Americans. Ethnicity & Disease, 17(3), 548–554.

O’Reilly, C. A. I., Williams, K. Y., & Barsade, S. (1998). Group demography and innovation: Does diversity help? In Composition (p. 183). Elsevier Science/JAI Press.

Shiraev, E. B., & Levy, D. A. (2024). Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications (8th ed.). Routledge.

Blog #8 - References for H.6443 - A10 – Baratko – LinkedIn Article on Future of HIT/HI Evidence-Based Care

Alder, S. (2024). What is HIPAA? The HIPAA Journal. https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-is-hipaa/

cdc. (2010). ACCE Model Process for Evaluating Genetic Tests. Center for Disease Control and

      Prevention. https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?     

      url=https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/gtesting/acce/index.htm

clinicalwired. (2023). Exploring the history of health informatics. Clinical Wired.

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Dotson, W. D. (2024). Evidence-Based practice: What it is and why It matters. Center for Surveillance,

     Epidemiology,  and Laboratory Services.

hipaajournal. (2025a). What is considered protected health information under HIPAA? The HIPAA

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    hipaa/

hippajournal. (2025b). What is the HITECH act? The HIPAA Journal.

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potomac. (2022). Health informatics vs health information technology: Which One to Choose?

    University of the Potomac. https://potomac.edu/health-informatics-vs-health-information-technology/

Sayyed, A., Sahu, S., Kanyal, D., & Sable, S. (2025). Effective leadership strategies in healthcare: A

     narrative review. Multidisciplinary Reviews, 8, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.31893/multirev.2025090

Terkamo-Moisio, A., Karki, S., Kangasniemi, M., Lammintakanen, J., & Haggman-Laitila, A. (2021).

     Towards remote leadership in health care: Lessons learned from an integrative review. Journal of

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Williamson, K. (2025). The future of healthcare: A focus on informatics. American Hospital &

     Healthcare Management. https://www.americanhhm.com/articles/the-future-of-healthcare-a-focus-

    on-informatics

 

Blog # 7 - Proposal of UX for Revised Ultimate Computer Lab

Mission Possible

A new proposed design for the ultimate computer lab for engineering administration, teachers, and students is submitted here for your study and investigation. An elaborate write-up of this proposal has been submitted to the engineering department. Here is an image of the new AR/MR/VR/XR multiverse lab.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, and you will take it, is to establish a User Design, UX, Design Department within the engineering offices to oversee the best design and construction of the revised ultimate computer lab for engineering personnel and students. This message will not self-destruct; you will carry this proposed UX design forward to completion.

Making a computer room may seem easy. Buy the equipment, install it, set up a computer with the necessary software & apps, and that's it...right?...wrong! Did you take the time to really study the purpose behind your lab, and did you consider how people will have an increased experience using it? That is where User Experience, UX, comes in. It is the responsibility of a designer and design team to ensure that the people who use it have an outstanding experience after they finish their work.

UX is not UI. UI is the User Interface, while UX is what is designed inside the UI.

So, what is UX Design Thinking? 

It is a nonlinear, iterative process that UX teams use to understand users.

It is a 5 step process

UX is not based on AI.

Instead, it is based the its 3-H's

 cAmerican Inst. of Graphic Arts, CC

UX is "a process, the Head, Heart, and Hand, 3 Hs, is a framework which outlines the different roles that designers must perform to create great results" (IxDF, 2024)

Good luck with your mission to create the UX Design Department.

Remember the Latin saying as you travel

Carpe Diem

Note on References

All references are contained in the updated proposal for the ultimate computer lab.

Blog # 6 - Discussion of a Learning Object, i.e. Your Canvas UX Course, for the New Met-Verse Computer Lab

 

                                                            Here is a question for you... 

                                What is the relationship between psychedelics and VR...?

                                                    That's an interesting question...right?

            For this Blog # 6, you will investigate and learn that on your very 1st first assignment.

                                So, let's not waste time. Let's get started with your UX course.

                                            This is your course, Heuristics Evaluation.

    Objective: To learn User EXperience, UX so that the new Meta-Verse Engineering Computer Lab

                     can be efficiently designed with the user in mind. 

c(Hillman, 2022)

    Contents of course.

                    Your course is designed using Canvas LMS. Here is the opening module. 

                    Very simple, you just go step-be-stgep thru the module.

                     Contained here is your syllabus. Very important

                     Followed by the references used in this course

                     NOTE: All refs used in the course are also cited at the end of this discussion.

                     Then, a tiny assignment for your quiz work  to introduce yourself

                     Followed by a quick quiz on how quizzes work on the site.

    

                                

Moving on to the core of the first UX Learning Module

                                

     

This is the first significant module for your course.

     There are 2 assignments. Let's briefly describe them

     Assignment #1 is for you to obtain two books, one on UX and the other by Dr. Leary

     Start reading these two books during your 1st week of studies

     For this, you will 

     When complete, do ADiscussion #1 based on what you learned from those books

     Assignment #2 is similar, except it is based on the original journal article on UX Heuristics

     here, you must do a particular assignment in Appendix 1 &2...

     Molich & Nielson (1990). The original article on heuristics and design

     Read, think about it, extract meaningful information asked for, and then do Discussion #2

The following modules are very similar.

    More journals to read and write discussions about.

    You will be doing a heuristic evaluation of user interfaces (Nielson & Molich, 1990)

    Then, when those are completed, you will start moving on to establishing your own heuristics

    You will see that various author describe their own set of heuristics

     but now you must synthesize these for your own use.

All of these modules will be easily accessible on your computer.

     No special apps

     Simple sign-in ID & PW

     Because it's online, you can work on it whenever you choose

     Suggestion. Make hard copies of the journal you will read.

     Research shows that reading hard copies increases student's learning

     Do the same for other items you will read and study.

    Always write your discussion posts on MS Word first, then edit, use Grammarly, then post

After establishing your particular heuristics, you will be in a position to start designing the new Meta-Verse computer lab. This is clearly your goal. 

Items you will need to consider for your new engineering lab are

     

Handheld or Wearable

c(Hillmann, 2021)

Spatial Arrangement

c(Vi et al., 2019)

View

c(Vi et al., 2019)

Equipment Used

c(Vi et al., 2019)

I hope you have found this blog an excellent overview of the UX class you will take.

There is much to learn in the fields of UX/VR/MR/AR/XR

The field is expanding rapidly, so you must be grounded in your studies and understanding.

Study hard

Remember well

and

Always try to get ahead of the XR World

Carpe Diem

References

Blog #5 - Proposal for Expansion of Engineering Lab into the Meta.Verse

 A Proposal for Expanding Engineering Computer Lab for Education 4.0

cBaratko (2024); Tremusa (2022)

This proposal will expand the current computer lab into VR/AR/MR technologies to create a metaverse learning environment for engineering students, Soylu & Lee (2023). The proposal emphasizes the rapid evolution of user experience (UX) and "meta realities" as drivers for this expansion, Pyae et al. (2023). These technologies are essential for preparing students for Industry 4.0 and Education 4.0, Castro et al. (2024). There is great potential for VR/AR technology applications in subjects like calculus, where students can visualize 3-D curves, and chemical engineering, where students can virtually explore chemical plants. This proposal also implements the guidelines for designing practical user experiences in these immersive environments:

●Organizing the spatial environment for efficiency and flexibility5.

●Prioritizing user comfort and avoiding overwhelming experiences.

●Considering hardware limitations and using cues to guide users.

●Creating compelling experiences grounded in real-world knowledge.

●Empowering users with control and opportunities for trial and error.

                                                                                    (IxDF, 2020); (Vi et al., 2019)

By moving into Education 4.0, which is part of Industry 4.0, we will be integrating AR/VR/MR, personalized learning, UX, collaboration & social interaction, improved accessibility and affordability, ethics, teacher training, and continued R&D and including the new organization, Artificial Intelligence Information Systems, AIIS, Collins et al. (2021).

 We must be a part of that!

Blog #4 - Professional Learning Microblogging

 

Students Doing Their Micro-Blogging, c2024 Baratko & Microsoft Designer

Our Post #4 This Week - 

Whether you do Mini-Blogging, Micro-Blogging, or Macro-Blogging, it is all about learning. And with learning comes communication; with that, there is collaboration. There are copious pros and cons to this. The pros and cons are listed below in the following infographic.

However, whatever blogging level you do, there is one top item to be super aware of, and that is...

                                                                --> "Scraping"

Scraping comes from the word scraper, a tool for scraping deteriorated paint from surfaces. Scraping is a very advanced method of playing peek-a-boo with a social media site to extract data.

Whether you are scraping or being scraped, be sure you are protected. You can use several protectors, and I will discuss that in the next blog post because it is a very advanced area.

" +'s " & " -'s "

Benefits & Challenges with Social Media Use are:

Enhanced knowledge, skills, teaching, learning, and access to professional communities.

Can foster collaboration because they give teachers and students a place to share their ideas.

However, challenges include managing the quantity of available content, the risks of context collapse, and having the cultures and discourse of online spaces.

Carpenter & Harvey (2020); Purwanto et al. (2023)

References

Carpenter, J. P. & Harvey, S. (2020). Chapter 2: Perceived Benefits and challenges of physical   

        edujcators' use of social media for professional development and learning. Journal of Teaching

        in Physical Education, 39(4), 434-444. https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2020-0002.

Purwanto, A., Fahmi, K., & Cahyono, Y. (2023). The benefits of using social media in the learning             process of students in the digital literacy Era and the Education 4.0 Era. Journal of Inbformation             Systems and Management, 2(2), 1-7.

Blog #3 - Personal Productivity Tools for Your Improvement

Personal Productivity Tools for Your Improvement 

            c2024, Baratko, Microsoft Designer            

This month, we’ll look at productivity tools you can implement in your work, research, or personal life. There are many of them, but for our purposes, we will just select three that you can employ. The ones we will look at here in my Blog #3 are Diigo, OBS, Notebook LM, and Notion. Diigo and ODS are your primary personal productivity tools. Notebook LM and Notion are add-on AI productivity tools.

One of your goals for technology is to maximize your human productivity. i.e., the tools you can use to increase your personal digital technology will be essential for your success. Such tools can help optimize your workflow and achieve your goals more efficiently. Once you have selected a technology tool, you will need to onboard it and then determine if it is and will be advantageous to your personal digital improvement. You want to be able to appraise your choice/s critically, identifying those best suited to enhance learning efficiency. So, one of the 1^st questions you need to ask yourself is, How will I evaluate the use of the digital productivity tool? For that, you have many, many choices.

Many people use SMART, an acronym for setting end goals, which started ~1980. However, it is outdated, and we need something more current. We’ll choose Purposeful, Actionable, Continuous, and Trackable – PACT (Caucci, 2021). The simplistic difference is that SMART measures reaching some final goal, whereas PACT is based not just on established goals but on the endurance and longevity of attaining them. If you apply PACT to the following tools, you can quickly validate their advantages.  So, let’s get started.

Personal Productivity Tool #1 – Diigo – https://www.diigo.com

Diigo replaces the “Favorites Bar” on your browser. 

Notice all the information in Diigo's Giving a Speech. Easier recall and search abilities. Try it.

Personal Productivity Tool # 2 – OBS Studio -  https://obsproject.com

OBS is a placement for making videos of your presentations with Clipchamp, PowerPoint, & Zoom

                                        This is how it looks using voice-over on PPT or Word

However, on OBS, you can edit it and look look like this...

It should be obvious which one to use to show you.. Pretty cool.

Finally, I am extra - Personal Productivity Tool #3 – Notebook LM & Notion

These two guys are the new AI tools for taking information and producing simplified results. For example, you could take 12 research journal articles, 2 books, and several websites and give them to LM or Notion and ask it to organize, summarize, and produce an outline for you, and wala, there it is. The question is? Is it legal? Is it ethical? I found one article on related ethics by Jiao et al. (2024).

I will be discussing this ethical use of AI in upcoming blogs

If we apply the PACT analysis to each of the ones I have just shown you, You can see that using the diigo and OBS substantially impact these productivity tools. It will prove that they are excellent for personal information organization and making your presentations look and feel better for the audience.

BLOG #2 - Converting a MS Word DOC to Having Accessibility Features on Web

            Introduction to Editing an MS Word Doc to Improve Its Accessibility Abilities

Suppose you/we are given the following Word doc, and our job assignment is to make it W3C compatible for web viewing by those with intellectual disabilities or some other aspect that prevents them from viewing the paper on their computer. What steps will you take/do to "fix" it? Several excellent sources are out there to help you; I will use them and provide the reference list. So, given that, let's get started.

STEP #0: You first need to read/scan the document for its logic. Does the logic flow so that someone who is disabled or not can learn quickly from it? Just because someone gives you a Word Doc to fix for accessibility does not mean it is written well. Let's look at the document I will use in this BLOG.                           

At 1st glance, it looks good. But there are accessibility problems.

        1> As you read it, the paragraphs are not organized to flow

        2> It needs to be clarified what someone wants you to learn and know. What to focus on?

        3> At the same time, you should check the reference. Guess what? It is incorrect.

        4> Colors are immaterial for the disabled reader

        5> Font size. What flavors do you want, H1, H2, H3?

        6> An outline of the paper does not exist at the top, which will have hyperlinks when done

        7> The reference is cited 3 times and it is not clear where to find it in the reference article

        8> Underlined segments need to be readable for the intellectually challenged person.'

        10> Finally, the image descriptions need to be more comprehensive. They need more elaboration.

Given all that, let's look at a marked-up Doc

            One can see there are at least 10 items to do. 

NEXT STEP: Given all the descriptions and editing needed, we need to rewrite the new document so that it clearly describes the goal you want the reader to learn. So, to do this, you should go back to Iannotti's (2024) article, study it, clarify the topic you want to write and rewrite it.

For our purpose, I want to focus specifically on grafting. I need to write the intro clearly and then add the steps for grafting. Based on rereading that article I now have the following.

What is Plant Grafting?

How to Combine Two Plants

Outline of This Paper

1.    Read and Study the Original Paper

2.    Rewrite/Edit a Proposed New Paper

3.    Add Images

4.    The End Result

First, Read and Study the Original Paper

1.   Study it and determine where rewrites are needed.

Determine the logic of what needs to be explained to the reader.

It could be parts or the whole for rewiring

Second, rewrite as needed. 

The result is as follows.

          Trees are very special for use. They can produce an abundant supply of the fruits that we like and enjoy. For our example here, let us consider an orange and grapefruit tree. How can we make them better. Actually, what can we do with each of them to create something unique and special?

          What we can do is join the two together by using a process called grafting. Grafting is a physical process of joining two different tree stems into a unique single stem. To perform this operation, we need three items.   

Ø A piece, called a stem, from the orange tree.

Ø A second stem, from the grapefruit tree

Ø A binding material to hold them together, a piece of sticky tape.

First: 

Cut the orange stem at an angle of 45-degree. This will be the bottom part. This bottom part is called the rootstock. This is because it will be the bottom part of the new graft. Inb addition, the 45-degree cut on this lower piece is referred to as having a wound. This would be like an open would on your hand if you cut yourself.

Second: 

Repeat the 45-degree cutting process on this top part. This top part is called a scion.

Third: 

Very carefully, align the two 45-degree cuts into one seamless connection.

 Fourth: 

Then, very carefully also, apply the bandage tape to hold the two securely together.

 That completes the basic editing process.

 3.  Add the images to show the process. Preferenctally these need be added at the very bottom of the paper. 

 4.    Add elaborate descriptions of these images. This must be done by hand. Do not rely on Microsoft Word Accessibility option to do this for you. See Iannott (2024) for an explanation of this.

NOW THAT I HAVE RE-WRITTEN THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, THEN ADDED THE IMAGES + A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF TRHEM, WE NOW HAVE THE FOLLOWING FINAL RESULT.

SWITCH-BOX  - Switching between regular paper versus disabled paper. The person doing and writing the interface code needs to do this because the two are not the same. 

BROWSER-CHECKING - Browser checking is a requirement. All browser, MS Edge, Google, Firefox, Linu, others usually display your writeup differently on eachnone, Now a days, the articles are starting to say which browser touse for the disabled person to use, and it definitelymust include JAWS. Immmersive Readers are available on some. 

I hope you have enjoyed this article. Creating accessible web pages to accomodate disabled students is a fill-time job. Besides the writing and the images, there are also the audio and videos to consider. Disabled students love a good video so be sure to include a talking vdo, and have some fun with them. The references which follow will keep you busy bercause there is are numerous items to lerrn and know. A lot of schools these days have a disability computer section in the library these days. And there is usually a full-time person workinbg there to help those in beed of special items to have available for these students. Many students need a "scribe". The scribe is a person who goes together with the student to the class and takes hand written notes, which wiull later be transcribed digitally into the computer for listening and learning.

BLOG #1 - Ken's Proposal for Ultimate Computer Lab Facilities