Weekly Reflection #5

In week 8 Education Technology class we had a guest speaker with Rich McCue who spoke on some of the technology tools we can use in the classroom to equip as better as teachers. This class was a lot of fun for me as it was a lot of experimenting with tools I haven’t previously used. The main things we went over was image editing, Google Gemini and video editing using clip champ. I have had a fair bit of experience editing both photos and videos but I hadn’t engaged at all with Google Gemini. I thought it was really interesting the to play around with it. I gave it a few prompts such as organize the classroom so that everyone is facing forward but in a collaborative sense, and it gave me the image below. I felt that this could be used in a abundant kind of way as it is very versatile for helping come up with ideas and perspectives a teacher possibly hadn’t thought of. I think tools like this are very cool but I am still learning the gray areas of copyright and ethical / environmental responsibility.

Image created by Google Gemini