Blog Journal #3

 Hello! Today I will be talking about copyright, fair use, technology implementation issues, and new skills I have acquired. To begin copyright is the legal protection of any property someone creates. It means that if you create something you have the right to use it and distribute it if you want to. Fair use is when you copy anything for a limited purpose and this can be for school, noncommercial, and more. As a future educator, it is important that anything you create is registered and protected. As for using other things in the classroom students and educators cannot use copyrighted works without permission. It is ok to use things created by yourself or students but you cannot use pirated or copied programs, photocopies of an entire textbook, and more. 

Secondly, I will discuss technology implementation issues. Cyberbullying is the act of bullying a person over electric communication. Cyberbullying affects many students every day but there are things we can do as educators to solve it. Schools can set up privacy settings on laptops, and educators can teach students to be kind to one another and to think before they post. Finally, educators can teach students what to keep personal and what to share. Another issue is Academic dishonesty which is fraudulent activity by students. Some examples include cheating on tests, quoting word for word without citing, copying other students' work, etc. To prevent academic dishonesty educators can warn students of the consequences and they can also make sure to ask students to place their backpacks in the front of the classroom and walk around during work time.

Finally, I will be discussing new skills I have acquired from working on my Newsletter Design assignment. From this assignment, I learned how to wrap text and images. I also learned how to take off text outlines and backgrounds and insert photos. For my future newsletter, I hope to insert more photos and align the text better. However, I am very proud of my first newsletter.