Reed,+Julie

Journal #4 I have to say that I don't know much about copyright and fair use. Basically I know your not supposed to copyright, and you should use fair use. So the list of things that were new to me could have taken up this whole page. Here are two that I thought were interesting and linked together though. I learned that if your a teacher you can show anything you want to your students that relates to the curriculum as long as it's in person and it won't be copyright. But I also learned that if the interaction is not face to face then there are more limitations on what is and is not allowed. One of the copyright and fair use issues I was already familiar with was public domain which is not copyrighted work so you don't need permission to use the work but if you do it should be cited. The second thing I was already familiar with was that only up to 10% (or up to 30 seconds) of a copyright music can be put into a multimedia or video project. I think the TEACH Act is a little complicated personally. I honestly think that all these kinds of copyright things are a little overboard. More then one person in the world is allowed to have had the same idea.

Journal #3 I don't really use web 2.0 tools too the extreme but from this class I am getting much more familiar with them. I now use diigo often which is very useful to keep all my websites in one place, and I use wiki but that's only because of this class. After looking at the list of 100 web 2.0 tools I saw how many great ideas there are out there. I found useful studying tools like Quizlet that use online flashcards. I also found great ideas that I can use in the classroom. The only thing I had a hard time with was the web 2.0 tools are a little complex to integrate into my major which is early childhood special education. So as I was looking at all the tools I was trying to think of ways that I could make them more for my age level. In the next 5-10 years I see technology being fully integrated into every classroom. I feel like I will be sending my children to school with laptops.

Journal #2 My experience with technology before college was relatively minimum. I worked with computers, but it was never anything too in depth. We had one computer in each classroom but those were the "teachers computers" that students were not allowed to touch. We were only allowed to use the computers in the computer labs and this was relatively minimum and usually done on our own time. Most of the technological things I learned were at home on my own computer or with my own things, which can be a real problem for students whose parents can't afford computers or other sorts of technology. I see teachers in our generation reaching for higher levels of technology, but not older teachers. I think ones that have already been teaching for a while are not open to this new technological age. I think that since they did not grow up this way they don't think it's necessary to teach there students this way. I know that this is our future though whether we like it or not, it's not going to stop it is only going to keep advancing, so my philosophy is that I will always be willing to keep molding and learning too because that's what will help me help my students achieve great things.

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Journal Entry #1 In my writing class last semester my professor had a very interesting approach to powerpoint. He showed us a way to use powerpoint where we put only one sentence and a visual on every slide. At first I thought this new way was terrible, but after I tried it on my own presentation I realized that it is a great way to present information. It takes the focus off the slides and puts the attention on the presenter. This method was very effective for college students, and I believe it would also be effective for students in highschool and as young as middle school. Any younger I do not believe this method would work because young children do not have long enough attention spans.