Blog Assignment #3

     Copyright and fair use are both licenses that are used to protect original work. With copyright, the creator of a certain work is the sole distributor of that work and may charge individuals if they are interested sharing the creator's protected content. Fair use grants individuals who wish to use or share someone else's copyright work for a set time before asking the original creator's permission. As a teacher, it will be my civic duty and responsibility to demonstrate academic honesty and to credit my sources. If necessary, I will pay for copyright materials. 

    Cyberbullying is a relatively new form of harassment that students can be exposed to when using technology. I would place restrictive blocks on social media platforms on school sanctioned devices to combat unwarranted attacks from strangers and malicious students. To prevent academic dishonesty, I would ask students to print and highlight their sources in correspondence to where the source is located in their work. My AP Literature teacher employed this method not only to prevent plagiarism, but to show us the ratio of personal commentary to source material in our essays.

    Creating my newsletter for my hypothetical kindergarten class proved to be a creative challenge just as much as a technical one. I learned how to move graphics around my screen! In the way that I want! I also discovered the "Icons" option under "Insert" in MS Word and was able to add appropriate graphics to my newsletter design. Next time, I will try working with borders, as I feel that would frame my information more aesthetically. I plan on saving this design and implementing it in my classroom for future use.