In class today I was reintroduced to iMovie. This is something that I had a lot of experience working with in my latter elementary years, but I have forgotten a lot of the skills. It was fun to revisit this and to look at it from an educator’s perspective. The application feels like you are a film maker and would be super fun for students to make their own films. I like the idea of using it as an alternative format for projects, for example instead of a writing assignment maybe making a video instead.

Here is a quick video showing the skills that I learned.

Additionally in class today Jesse Miller came to talk about social media, privacy online, how online identity is important and the digital literacy changes in people through time.

The talk that Jesse gave was a really thought provoking as it made me think of my role as a future educator and how I will utilize technology in my classroom, but in how my online presence could affect my ability to be hired. I am lucky in the way that I never had any form of social media other than Pinterest (if you even count that) until my first year of university. In this way I feel that I am pretty protected when it comes to my online presence as I was not an immature teenager with the entire internet at my finger tips. It did make me more aware at the things that employers will look at and I will be treading more carefully in the future when it comes to what I post online.