The New "Digital Dan"

My growth as a digital citizen has been huge because of the class EEND678Y. I have continually challenged myself in becoming a better educator and what a better way to do this then using my resources online. I have joined Twitter and have learned what people to follow because they have great tweets. The tweets most of the time are of students during lessons of new games or skill concepts. I have used some of them in my classes and this is a great way to network with other educators. Not only has this helped me on Twitter, but I was able to communicate with a teacher from DeKalb, IL to present at our district PE teachers. This was well received because sometimes administration forgets about PE people and what we want for professional development.

Another way this class grew me was my personal hack on my passwords. The applied digital skills module had me do a Google tutorial on passwords. There I created 10 passwords that I normally use for everyday accounts online. After importing common words and using a Google Sheet I was able to personally attack my own passwords. What I learned from this assignment was how easy hackers can attack passwords. I also learned that having multiple characters, symbols, and numbers help safeguard against attacks. Lastly, I learned that my passwords are pretty solid when it comes to personal attacks because non were predicted on the Google sheet.

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  1. Eric LampeJuly 7, 2019 at 8:15 PM

    I love how useful of a skill you gained in terms of your digital citizenship in the form of Google passwords. I think that would be an amazing thing to try out to test my own passwords. I know that is an area I could probably stand to grow in. I also think its inspiring how you have grown in your usage of Twitter for education purposes.

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