Blog Journal 2

For the most part I have used Microsoft Word to write papers or essays throughout my academic career. I usually use it to just write paragraphs about whatever topic I am studying. I have very rarely been given an assignment through Microsoft Word where I got to be creative and have fun. I have also very rarely seen teachers using Word for anything other that writing out assignments or rubrics. I think this is especially true in college. There are very few classes where Word is used for anything other than writing in my experience.

I feel like a large majority of the materials I have been given throughout my academic career have been copyrighted by my teachers. I have been given several copies from workbooks or textbooks as assignments. I have also seen this happen a lot when a teacher is absent for the day. They would make copies from something to work on because they were not there to teach. I haven't seen this happen much in college so far. Most of the assignments come directly from the professor sometimes with an aid from a textbook. I think it is important to use aids to teach some lessons. I think as a teacher I will make most of my lesson tools and assignments. I think I will also use aids from other teachers if they are beneficial to my lesson.

I think to combat copyright problems you just have to do proper research. You have to research and see what the laws are against copyrighting documents so that you can avoid it. I think also researching the specific restrictions and licenses on different documents or books. Privacy issues are definitely something you want to avoid especially when children are using technology. I think making sure all of your accounts are protected by passwords and other privacy measures. Also making sure that the students are using websites properly and not putting any of their information that could be seen by people outside of the classroom. Cyberbullying is always something you want to avoid with students using technology. Unfortunately you can only do so much to protect students while they are in school but once they leave it is hard to control. I think monitoring what students are saying to each other online while using the technology in school is important. I think you should also have consequences set in place so the students will know that they can not use technology to bully others.


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