Hey Cloggers,

So, I’ve decided to delete my blog because I want to make sure I get a job in the future.

See ya…

Just kidding, but seriously, today’s class gave me a snap back to reality.

Today in class, we talked about internet safety and the online footprint we leave and honestly, I’m kind of scared. I know that I’m safe on the internet and that my social media profiles have all the strictest privacy settings on; however, how private does that really make my profile? I know that people can’t see pictures on my facebook or instagram, and I know they have to ask me to follow me, but does this make my profile private? Or just somewhat less public? It’s scary to think about.

Nonetheless, it’s also unrealistic for me to just shut down every social media profile and call it a day. My entire family lives in Europe and social media is one of the ways I can connect with them as often as I do now. And I’m so happy that the internet has allowed me to do this.

I think it’d be cool to have someone with extensive technology skills to search and see what kind of information about me is posted on the internet. I trust that when I hit the private box on instagram that no one can find me, but somehow people from across the country can find my profile and request to follow me… how does this work?

Online safety is scary and I’d like to learn more about how I can adequately hide my personal life without just getting rid of social media and staying offline forever.

Anyway, we also talked about video editing today. I’ve never done any type of video editing at all but it’s definitely something I wanted to learn more about because there’s so many opportunities for student projects with platforms such as iMovie. Keeping the privacy aspect in mind when implementing this tool into the classroom is important (especially after our talk with Jesse Miller today).

I learned that you can pause and play videos on iMovie by clicking the spacebar as well as turn the volume up and down. Here is the video I edited in class today:

The movie isn’t that great but at least the name is quality.

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂