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I moved as soon as I could \u2013 at the age of 17 \u2013 to Ontario to become a reporter.\r\n\r\nAs a result of my isolated upbringing, books, arts and games were very (very) important to me. After spending two decades in communications, public relations, Web design and journalism, I am looking to change up my career.\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">I am currently teaching myself the Amazon[pb_glossary id=\"90\"] Lumberyard,[\/pb_glossary] Role Player Game (RPG) Maker, Unity game and the open source HighFidelity Virtual Reality development system, created by the creator of the Linden Labs Second Life system. 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I moved as soon as I could \u2013 at the age of 17 \u2013 to Ontario to become a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of my isolated upbringing, books, arts and games were very (very) important to me. After spending two decades in communications, public relations, Web design and journalism, I am looking to change up my career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">I am currently teaching myself the Amazon<button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"4-90\"> Lumberyard,<\/button> Role Player Game (RPG) Maker, Unity game and the open source HighFidelity Virtual Reality development system, created by the creator of the Linden Labs Second Life system. I\u2019m a current member of Dames Making Games and have attended their Virtual Reality Hackathons.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p>I volunteered at the Toronto 519, supporting the Trans Inclusion education and training team in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"4-52\">H5P<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"glossary\"><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"4-89\" hidden><p>A town in Northern Alberta.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"4-90\" hidden><p>I don't know this is can we explain?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"4-52\" hidden><p>Is an open-source software toolset for open learning created in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":178,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[12],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-4","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions\/91"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/moduletraininglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}