This week we had another guest speaker come in named Rich McCue. Rich is the Manager of the Digital Scholarship Commons. He introduced us to a few different kinds of tools like Google Gemini and the magic eraser tool on Google Photos. These tools could be used in the classroom as well as personal use. He encouraged us to think about how tools like these could be used in a classroom setting. I really enjoyed how hands on this workshop was because it made it much more engaging and fun to listen to. We were able to try out different features that these tools have like removing backgrounds, editing photos, as well as videos.

One thing that he said that I had never really thought of before was about privacy and data ownership. Rich explained that when you upload a picture onto for example Google Gemini it goes to a server in the United States meaning it can be accessed under the Patriot Act, so he remined us to never upload student pictures since there isn’t a clear answer on who actually owns it.

We also played around with video editing and podcasting using iMovie and Microsoft video editor which was super cool. I really liked how he gave us lots of time to play around with the different tools. He showed us a few videos with different things wrong with them like a shaky camera, loud noise, etc. which was to help us notice and avoid these things when creating videos. Overall, this workshop was a lot of fun and very informative, I enjoyed how interactive and hands on it was.