Blog journal 3

     Copyright and Fair use, both very important topics especially in the education world. Copyright is basically a form of ownership and protection over an idea, writing, art, band, graphic, image, or just about anything else. The person who owns the copyright of the item owns all the rights to the item and need some sort of compensation for use of said item. Fair use was established when the copyright act came out, it allows users to copy items for educational purposes. In my classroom I will teach my students about citing anything they use off of the internet, and cite and give credit to the things that I didn't not create. I think this is the only fair way to do it, giving credit where credit is deserved. 

    Although there are many issues that come with technology implementation the two I chose are academic dishonesty, and cyber bullying. For academic dishonesty I think especially in older grades your bound to have it happen or at least have kids try but one way I think you could help lower the number of kids who try to cheat is by having either open note quizzes, or just essay questions. Yes as student we hate writing essays I just believe its much harder to cheat on an entire essay rather than a quiz. Cyberbullying on the either hand is a bigger more important issue in my opinion. The lifelong impacts that cyberbullying has on children is detrimental, and I think the only way to even begin to try and prevent it is by educating kids on what the consequences and affects of cyber bullying are. Show them how much and how long it can affect them, and talk about the consequences of being a cyber bully. 

    Through this project I have learned a lot about word. I came into this class barely even knowing how to change the color of the font in Word. This project really got me outside of my comfort zone and taught mw many things. I learned about adding a border, and a header, I had absolutely no idea how to add columns into my word so learning how to do that was cool. I basically learned how to make a word document more interesting than just basic size 12 font paragraphs typed on a white page.