Jadah Carrera-Publicover

 Blog Journal Number 3

 Hi everyone! Copyright and fair use are very important topics when talking about technology. Copyright is a form of protection for rights over your own property and creative work. If you are using other's creative work, you must give them the credit that they deserve by citing their sources. As a teacher, this is definitely something to watch out for, as it is very easy to plagiarize someone else's work as a student. When teaching it is important to encourage creativity, or to have a works cited page at the end to provide credit for the sources used. As for fair use, this is a set of guidelines to allow users to copy materials for nonprofit educational purposes. These guidelines must be used within reason, and depend on how much of the copyrighted work is used. As a teacher, you are able to use these copyrighted materials, but should take into consideration how much you use for your own material. Teachers should add in their in own creativity and thoughts to the material they teach, as they want their students to do the same for their work. 

When using technology in a classroom, many issues could arise. Some issues being cyberbullying and decreased productivity. If it these issues were to occur in my classroom I would try my best to stop them as soon as possible. To stop cyberbullying from occurring, I would like to teach my students how to be cyber safe and discuss that bullying is completely unacceptable online and in-person. If it does occur, I would get involved, as well as get the school's staff involved as well, to get to the bottom of the issue. As for decreased productivity, I plan to limit the time my students get to use technology. I would like to teach them all about technology and allow them to use it for assignments, but once productivity becomes an issue, then technology will slowly get removed from our schedule. I feel that the best way to balance this issue would be to allow technology time, but also still make time for hands-on activities and learning time in class. This will help teach students that there must be balance between the two. 

I learned many new skills working on the newsletter design assignment. I don't use Microsoft Word often, so navigating this software was slightly difficult for me at first. I learned how to create different boarder styles, how to use the the column feature, how to get a section of the page shaded, etc. while doing this assignment. After trying out all different skills on Microsoft Word for this assignment, I was very happy with how my newsletter design turned out. Some things that I think I could improve on would be the articles I chose to write about. Since my newsletter is directed towards younger children, I feel that I could make the newsletter more interesting by adding more images, instead of having so many paragraphs. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment and feel that I learned many new skills while doing it.