Copyright is a legal bound that gives creators absolute control and rights over their own work. This denies others access to reproduce or use these works without the creator's permission. Fair use, however, gives a limited exception to use these works in certain cases. As a teacher, I feel it is important to educate students about both of these. In cases of developing my own instructional material, I would advise students that fair use applies. For example, they can use my instructional material for learning, but may not claim it as their own. As for students creating their own works, I would advise them that there is reward in creating something yourself and that copying others works is not only harming the creator, but themselves, by hindering their critical thinking.
The technology implementation issues I chose are academic dishonesty and cyberbullying. In order to prohibit academic dishonesty, I would put in place preventative measures. I would educate my students the consequences of academic dishonesty and use an academic dishonesty program on my computer to detect plagiarism. In order to prohibit cyberbullying, I would emphasize the importance of being an encouraging peer to other students and encourage relationship building activities in the classroom, as well as be available and an avid listener for my students.
From working on the Newsletter Design, I learned about different aspects of Canva and Microsoft Word. I was unfamiliar with the column structure and shapes on Word, but this assignment greatly helped. In the future, my Newsletter could improve by the amount of time it took, because I am more familiar with the concept now, and more intentional about the structure of my newsletter. Since I want to be an elementary school teacher, the skills I developed will be useful in completing both online and paper newsletters for students and parents.
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