Once again this week I find myself learning something I had no clue about. As I think about my career as an educator, I consider all the ways I want to inspire my students, I have all these plans about the type of teacher I want to be, and I know that technology will play a big part in that. Once again in this class I find myself learning information that is completely new to me. Copyright & Fair Use. I do not know why I've never thought about these issues before, but to be perfectly honest, I just haven't. I can see myself in my classroom, using powerpoints, blogs, webpages, etc to teach my students. Using powerful quotes by famous politicians, educators, philosophers, and the like that have inspired me, but never once have I stopped to think - is it legal for me to create such things using their speeches, quotes, lyrics, etc? I did find that the basic guidelines in an article I read are very helpful in helping me to understand what I can fairly use in teaching. From these things, I think I would be able to make a good decision on what to use in the classroom. I know that using copyrighted material is ok, given that:
- I am in a place that is for learning, and the material will not leave that facility.
- I have to use a legitimate copy of whatever I am using, obviously some bootlegged copy of something is not under any copyright of fair use law.
- I can use it so long as what I am using is not available for sale for classroom use.
As you can see from above, what I really learned about in this lesson was copyright and fair use, however, I do feel that netiquette and cyberbullying are very important topics. I just think they are more common sense than education copyright laws. Netiquette is that same thing as traditional etiquette, when you go online you treat people the way you want to be treated, and you treat them the way you would if you were in a face to face situation with them. It is no different and I will definitely teach my students about netiquette considering my stance on technology in the classroom. Cyberbullying is a major issues in today's society. Kids are using the internet as a hurtful instrument. From playing terrible games on social media, to posting derogatory and slanderous statements about other students - it needs to be stopped. After learning about all these things I definitely feel that netiquette and cyberbullying are issues that should be addressed in the classroom, and I think it is important for teachers to read up on copyright a fair use so they don't break any laws, and so they know they using the full range of resources provided to them.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
MAPping Information
I have to start this post by again saying, the high school I attended did NOT incorporate technology at all in it's subjects. Other than my college English class, this is basically the first time I have had to extensively research things on the internet. Prior to today, I would get get on to Google and type whatever I was looking for. It's extremely frustrating because as we all know you get tons of hits no matter what you type, and sometimes if you are looking for something very specific you have to trudge through tons of trash to get useful information. It's hard to trust a website, so finding a way to make searches more efficient is very important, especially now that technology plays such an important part in the classroom setting. All the information I have read about MAPping is brand new to me. I had no idea that you could use different search techniques to aid in what you are looking for. I will definitely need to spend a few weeks going over everything, but I am very excited to work with these techniques.
I must admit that all of the information I have been going over for MAPping is a lot to take in. I want to practice with it more, and maybe look up more articles on the subject. I can honestly say that I want to change my habits in the future, but I as I am very new to this I will need to practice, and practice often. I think one of the nicest tips was learning that you can search, and just bring up information from specific websites, such as: education (edu), organization (org), military (mil). To be honesty, this is the first time I've ever stopped to think about what those things means. I have already utilized this knowledge in one of my other classes to search for a specific topic on educational websites, and I was amazed at how different and how much more successful my results were! The way I have searched things have definitely changed. I feel much better about using the results I get as a source in my papers now. As a teacher, I want to incorporate this into my classroom because I do believe in technology, but I know it is easy for students to become confused by all of the false material there is out there, and MAPping will definitely help eliminate that.
Just for fun, I looked at some up the past things I have searched on Google. I couldn't help but laugh at myself as I saw the results. I would start with a one or two word search, and it gradually got longer, as I got more desperate in my search for information. At times, there would be two or three sentence searches! I was very surprised to learn that Google does not even give you results based on relevance. This lesson has definitely changed the way I view search engines. As of right now, I do think these techniques are complicated, but I plan to continue to better myself with MAPping, because I think it is a necessary skill before I go into teaching!
I must admit that all of the information I have been going over for MAPping is a lot to take in. I want to practice with it more, and maybe look up more articles on the subject. I can honestly say that I want to change my habits in the future, but I as I am very new to this I will need to practice, and practice often. I think one of the nicest tips was learning that you can search, and just bring up information from specific websites, such as: education (edu), organization (org), military (mil). To be honesty, this is the first time I've ever stopped to think about what those things means. I have already utilized this knowledge in one of my other classes to search for a specific topic on educational websites, and I was amazed at how different and how much more successful my results were! The way I have searched things have definitely changed. I feel much better about using the results I get as a source in my papers now. As a teacher, I want to incorporate this into my classroom because I do believe in technology, but I know it is easy for students to become confused by all of the false material there is out there, and MAPping will definitely help eliminate that.
Just for fun, I looked at some up the past things I have searched on Google. I couldn't help but laugh at myself as I saw the results. I would start with a one or two word search, and it gradually got longer, as I got more desperate in my search for information. At times, there would be two or three sentence searches! I was very surprised to learn that Google does not even give you results based on relevance. This lesson has definitely changed the way I view search engines. As of right now, I do think these techniques are complicated, but I plan to continue to better myself with MAPping, because I think it is a necessary skill before I go into teaching!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Introduction
My name is Cassandra Cullum, but I go by Cassie. It's actually a bit odd to me to say Cassandra. I am a Paris Junior College graduate as of December 2013. I am currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in general studies. Since I graduated from high school in 2006, I have worked in the medical field. I loved it and always assumed I would stick with this type of career path forever. However, while employed at my local hospital I was given the opportunity to participate in an orthopedic class. Basically, patients who were coming in for knee or hip replacements had to attend a class where they would learn about their degenerative joint disease and learn about the procedures they would go through while in the hospital. As I was working to teach our patient's this, I learned that while working in healthcare was rewarding, I wanted to help people in a different way.. through education. I believe that education is the most important thing a person can have.
I grew up in a really small town, and I attended a really small high school. I can recall that one of the few times I ever used a computer while at school was in my senior year and I participated in a newspaper that my school put out. In doing that, I had access to computers. Even as my courses got harder in school, we never really implemented technology into our studies. When I got to college I was completely shocked. I had no idea that technology could play such a huge role in education. I had never used blackboard before, I had limited experience with using online references. The difference between my high school English class, and my college English class was night and day. With the power of technology I had access to more information and I enjoyed my assignments more. I strongly believe that technology needs a place in today's classrooms. I think that as a teacher, I can use technology to help students that were like me to really enjoy learning. I would love to use it in fun and creative ways to peak student's interest in learning. I also think technology in the classroom is great because education is limited by the amount of time you have for each class period and by using technology, students can still receive guidance from teachers, and help from other students, outside of the traditional setting.
My goals for this class are to learn about all the ways technology can be brought into the classroom. I want learn how to use technology in addition to traditional learning to create an environment for students to succeed. I would also like to find out more about what today's students expect from their teachers as far as technology is concerned. I think it's really important that children continue to learn how to do things without the assistance of computers, but technology is our future, so I know that it is important to bring it into the classroom. I'd love to learn how to balance traditional learning with a more technology based learning. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first started this class, but even in this second week I have learned a lot. For instance, I never would have considered a blog a powerful tool until now. I just hope to continue to learn how to use technology to be a successful educator.
I grew up in a really small town, and I attended a really small high school. I can recall that one of the few times I ever used a computer while at school was in my senior year and I participated in a newspaper that my school put out. In doing that, I had access to computers. Even as my courses got harder in school, we never really implemented technology into our studies. When I got to college I was completely shocked. I had no idea that technology could play such a huge role in education. I had never used blackboard before, I had limited experience with using online references. The difference between my high school English class, and my college English class was night and day. With the power of technology I had access to more information and I enjoyed my assignments more. I strongly believe that technology needs a place in today's classrooms. I think that as a teacher, I can use technology to help students that were like me to really enjoy learning. I would love to use it in fun and creative ways to peak student's interest in learning. I also think technology in the classroom is great because education is limited by the amount of time you have for each class period and by using technology, students can still receive guidance from teachers, and help from other students, outside of the traditional setting.
My goals for this class are to learn about all the ways technology can be brought into the classroom. I want learn how to use technology in addition to traditional learning to create an environment for students to succeed. I would also like to find out more about what today's students expect from their teachers as far as technology is concerned. I think it's really important that children continue to learn how to do things without the assistance of computers, but technology is our future, so I know that it is important to bring it into the classroom. I'd love to learn how to balance traditional learning with a more technology based learning. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first started this class, but even in this second week I have learned a lot. For instance, I never would have considered a blog a powerful tool until now. I just hope to continue to learn how to use technology to be a successful educator.
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