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     Copyright is is the legal right, given to the creator of something to share their own work, and give others permission to do the same. It protects intellectual property, which is anything as a result of creativity. Fair use allows people to take small portions of copyrighted material and share them. People such as teachers use this in order to help teach material. I would first educate my students on both of these concepts to make sure they understand the limits and importance of copyright and fair use, as there are consequences to breaking them. I would also make sure for things they use, that they credit the creator and check for copyrighted materials before even thinking about using it.

    Cyberbullying is a huge problem, especially in this day and age. I believe that the most important and efficient way to prevent it is to educate people. I would set aside time to talk about cyberbullying, ways to spot it, and how to approach it and report it in a mature way. Decreased productivity distracts students from their work, and some ways that my teachers have prevented that in the past, is that the teachers sit in the back of the classroom so the computer/phone screens are facing them. This gives teachers the ability to see if students are using the correct application and doing their work. 

    While creating the newsletter, I was able to learn more about Microsoft Word formatting tricks. Normally, if I were to create something that would require a lot of design and formatting, I would use Microsoft Publisher, but by using Word, I was able to learn how to do things on Word just as I knew how to do in Publisher. In the future, I think I could improve on spacing better, as the margins seemed oddly large in my newsletter. Not too big that there was too much white space, but one of my graphics didn't cover much of the page when placed in the center. These skills can help me when I'm a teacher if I wanted to create a real newsletter to send to students' parents, as I do believe it is a very helpful way to keep in contact with the parents.




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