Weekly Reflection: Presentation Day #1 and in class activity

I wanted to use this week’s reflection based off of the presentation’s that happened today during our class time. One of the presentation’s that stood out to me was pod 15 who focused on the technology tool of Slido. Slido can be used as an interactive and exciting add on feature that can help engagement and check for understanding in the classroom. I really enjoyed watching this group’s video as two of them are colleagues that I taught a grade 9 social studies class with earlier on in the semester. One of our key focuses during this teaching experience was focusing on assessment, in particular formative assessment. I believe that using Slido would be an excellent way to incorporate formative assessment into a social studies, or any teachable subject to check for understanding during a lesson. I was curious to learn more about Slido and therefore found a video tutorial that digs deeper into how to use Slido!

For the in class activity where we searched our names I found a couple different things. To begin with, every now and then I do search my name to see what is available for other’s to find. When I search my name “Kyle Harman” what comes up is my different social media accounts such as Instagram. However, my social media accounts are primarily private therefore you cannot find much more besides my locked account. As well, if you search my name my WordPress website and blog posts are available for others to find. When I add “Saanich” to the end of the search it brings up a news article from 2011 when I was playing a hockey game. As well, it brings up stats to a hockey tournament that I played in here. Upon review I was reminded that I did not actually play in the tournament as I was sick at the time.

I don’t think I will change much about how I use social media and my digital footprint moving forward. However, one thing I might do is review my social media accounts to see how secure and private they are and potentially switch my name to ensure I have more privacy.