Category: EDCI 336 (page 2 of 2)

In this weeks class we had guest speaker Jesse Miller tell us about our Digital Footprints, and how important it is to be aware of it. Prior to this class I have already learnt about digital footprints, where images might end up and who may end up seeing them. My parents brought me up to be extremely cautious with what I put on line and have taught me how to make all of my social media accosts extremely private and secure. When I google myself (or if someone else were to google my full name) the only result is the famous Volleyball player Gabrielle Reece. The only places that you can find my name connected to anything personal is an archived newspaper article that features all of the students from my graduating class, the Big Brothers Big Sisters 2017-2018 annual report, and, if you look hard enough, a poetry book that my grade five class published.

When thinking of social media in the classroom, the only time that I could imagine using it is creating a private blog of some sorts for the parents to know what the class will be up to that week, or showing off some of the projects the class has completed.

In this class we delved into the topic of photo editing, although I know how to use photoshop quite proficiently I found this class extremely interesting and we were told of different platforms that we could use as an alternative to adobe photoshop. I often use either Photoshop or Procreate for any photo editing that I wish to do so I was quite out of my element when we then proceeded to edit the iconic sitting Bernie image onto various backgrounds using powerpoint. As mentioned, I found this difficult because I have never used powerpoint before. While I am not the biggest fan of using the Powerpoint platform I understand that it is a great way to create items to use in the classroom. I found it very interesting to see what my peers created with their sitting Bernie images, while I was excited to see so many of my peers thrive with the powerpoint photo editing I was also quite glad to see that I was not the only one who was having a little bit of a difficult time.