Journal 2

Throughout my life as a student, Microsoft Word has been a program that I have used constantly. Nearly every writing assignment has been written on word and then printed or electronically turned in. Word is fairly easy to navigate through and has made it easy to write and edit essays. It makes it simple to make sure my work is presented in the best way possible. I think I first used Word in elementary school. So this program has been in my school life for many years and I expect it to be a part of it for many more years. My teachers, on the other hand, have also used Word a lot to make tests and quizzes. If it wasn't for word, I can imagine it would be a lot harder to formulate these assignments for the students.

Since I have been in elementary school, I have used copyrighted materials. As have my teachers! But since we have just used them for educational purposes, there are no issues with copyright laws. Fair use lets educators use materials if it helps their students learn. If you follow these laws, you won't have any issues. As a teacher making their own materials, you must be prepared to have your works used by other educators. When students create their own works, you can teach them about how their creations can be shared on the internet for others to view to benefit themselves.

Chapter 11 brought up multiple implementation issues. One of theses issues is cyberbullying. As someone who has been cyberbullied many times in the past(and present!) I feel very strongly on this issue. I also have learned a few ways to deal with this issue. I learned that being strong is the most important thing. People who use the internet as a place to say mean things are insecure mean humans who need to use the mask of the internet to try to make other people feel bad. Once one realizes that, the words from the cyberbullies don't mean as much. On a related note, cyberstalking is another issue that one may potentially deal with. The easiest way to deal with this issue is prevention. Make sure personal social profiles are on private and all public profiles show minimal information. One also should make sure they don't accidentally download dangerous files and such that could hack their computer and self-install stalking programs. Freedom of speech is a difficult issue that can come along with a lot of grey area. Many might think that "freedom of speech" means you can say whatever you want whenever you want! At possibly at the expense of others as well. This is not necessarily the case. When you say things online, especially in schooling settings, one must make sure to not offend fellow classmates and people online. In my future classroom, I'll make sure to bring up these issues and share these prevention tactics with my students.