Blog Journal #3

 Hello again! It is known that copyright is a protection for a creator's original work. Copyright allows creators to control how they want their work to be seen and used.  It also does not allow other people to copy a creator's work and use it as their own. Fair use is a doctrine that is seen as pretty flexible and only determined by the court. It allows someone to use something that is copyrighted if it is fair for them to use it. An example of this would be when a news network is using a video that is not theirs to report something. As a teacher, copyright could be seen with their own students. This could be if their students decide to use a fellow student's work as their own or get work off the internet and present it as their own. Seeing fair use in the classroom could definitely be when a teacher is using a passage word for word from a textbook to teach their students. I feel it is important to go over copyright, plagiarism, and fair use as a teacher and explain to your students what negative impact could happen if they were to do one of those. 

Implementing technology in classrooms can cause issues such as academic dishonesty and cyberbullying. When implementing technology in the classroom, many teachers can be faced with academic dishonesty such as plagiarism and cheating. A possible solution to academic dishonesty in the classroom due to technology could be by teaching the students the importance of academic integrity and explaining to them the repercussions that could happen if they were to cheat or plagiarize. I also think it would be important to assign students homework, tests, and even quizzes where a simple Google search can give them an answer. Assigning them to work where they have to use their critical thinking and problem-solving skills can limit academic dishonesty like plagiarizing and cheating in the classroom. Another problem with implementing technology in the classroom is cyberbullying, a possible solution to stop cyberbullying is by explaining to the students what could happen to someone getting cyberbullied or bullied in general. I also feel it is important to block certain websites that the students may access to limit cyberbullying. 

One main new skill that I acquired when working on the newsletter design was when I learned how to make a banner on canvas. Creating my banner on Canva for this assignment allowed me to really understand all the little details I can do to a Canva project. In the future, I think one way I can improve my newsletter is by adjusting the fonts in certain sections to make the title bigger than the paragraph section. An example of this would be in the field trip form cut-out area, I would make the wording "field trip form" a way larger font than the area that they need to fill out. The skills I learned in this assignment will definitely be used in my future career as a teacher when I need to make classroom newsletters.