#2: Word, Copyright, and Twitter

#1: Microsoft Word has been a part of my student life throughout the entire thing. Whether it was just practicing spelling and sentence structure to writing ten page research papers, word has been my best friend throughout it all. Teachers use word to type up instructions and examples to show their students during their class time. Usually, anything one of my teacher's assigned me, I had to use word at some point during the assignment. I do not think word will ever not be used in schools by students or teachers, and the updates will just keep getting better and better.

#2: My experience with copyright and fair use of materials in an education environment have been a pretty straight forward experience. I have never gotten in trouble with using copyrighted works in the wrong way, and I do not know any one of my teachers that has gotten in trouble either. I know when a teacher was explaining a project or lesson during class, they would always tell the students where they were getting this information from and why they were using it in the first place. As a teacher, I would stress the fact that using copyrighted materials in the incorrect way could get someone in a whole lot of trouble that could have been completely avoided. I would do the same thing my teachers did, which was explain themselves and their reasoning behind using this kind of material. If I was developing my own instructional material, I would only use another teacher's work as a guideline to make my own. I would never copy someone, and call it my own information.

#3: Since I am nineteen years old, I was already very familiar with Twitter. Usually, people my age can get around any kind of social media quite quickly. Twitter is not a new thing to me so I am glad we are using it to pass information around. Personal learning networks on the other hand are a very new thing to me. I believe that PLNs could help my future career in many different ways. These help me have personal relationships with the educators around me, and helps me collaborate with other people. Your future career is all about the network you make for yourself and the connections you make with other people working in the same field as you. I believe PLNs could shape an educators career from the early beginning.