EEND678Y Final Blog Post

The theme of the two artifacts I am going to reflect on is useful material outside of University of St. Francis. When I can learn something to better myself outside of the course it automatically has an impact on me.

My PE department will have a guide to how to improve our professional development meetings thanks to my first artifact. Having to be openly honest about the struggles that are involved with department production was difficult. On the other hand, maybe this is an exercise that my department needs to do together to start becoming more productive. I also think the format that I created for this half day meeting could be another positive thing to get the department moving in the right direction. That is the definition of taking an assignment from a USF class and applying it at another level. I'll keep my devoted blog followers updated on the dept meetings moving forward!

Disclaimer: these are not really passwords I use in real life! The ten passwords I made up were the first words I could think of when doing this other impactful assignment. Creating a digital attack on my passwords was fun! I felt like a hacker in a movie, except maybe without the dark and dirty place from which I started the attack. I learned that if your password is not with extra symbols, characters, numbers and upper and lowercase words then it's easy to hack. I also learned how fast hackers are able to work with the help of computer programs to try and steal passwords. The positive thing I took from this assignment was...drumroll please...my passwords were actually good! Guess I could start this as a side job for people who have been hacked before.

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  1. Kim DarcheJuly 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM

    You did a lot of good work in this course, Dan. I am so glad you decided to use your PD plan as an artifact, it was very powerful.

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