Blog Journal 3

    Copyright in my own words is stealing someone else works or property and using it as yours without giving credit to the person who originally made or created the work/property. Fair use is the ability to use someone's work that is protected by intellectual property without the owner's consent. As a teacher, I will punish the student but not on the first try. If I have a student that submits something that is someone else work I will warn them about how this is wrong but never ruin their image. If the student does it again, I will then try to punish them by turning them in to the academic counselor and letting them do what is necessary. With my own instructional materials, I will give an example of what is copyright, explain it to them, and also tell them what would be the result if they copyright someone's work. Student creates their own work by letting them turn in an assignment and giving them a zero if it is copyrighted. Doing this creates a scare but I will also allow them to do it over. 

    Lack of funding is a major technology implementation issue. Growing up in a low-income school where 85% of the students are below the poverty line. Technology is a necessity, especially with how fast technology grows. If students or staff do not get the funding needed to be successful then this creates a problem for learning about copyright or fair use. A solution I could implement in my future classroom is to allow students/parents to tell me they need resources for technology. I then will go to the principal or school board about getting laptops and letting students rent them out during the school year. Another would be academic dishonesty because so many students fail at this. I will allow my students to give me a list of things they think is academic dishonesty then I will give them my classroom rule on academic dishonesty. A solution to the issue that I could implement in my future classroom is to remind them faithfully what is academic dishonesty and why it is important to not fall short into the hands of that kid that is put on academic dishonesty. 

    The skills I learned from the Newsletter design are using different fonts, adding pictures, and putting different boxes and shapes on the page. I could improve my newsletter in the future by adding more to the pages to make it pop out. I had a hard time putting stuff on the page so I spent so much time trying to make sure everything that was listed on the rubric is on the page. The skills I learned from the assignment can be used in my future career by teaching my students about different pages size, the right font for a certain assignment, and how to add boxes and images to pages.

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