Copyrights, Fair Use, Cyberbullying and Netiquette

Before reading or looking over this week topic about copyright, fair use, cyberbullying and netiquette. I had some prior knowledge about these topics. Though there always that saying that they say, "You learn something new every day!" While reading this I learned a lot from the copyright. Thanks to having some amazing teachers in high school I was taught that whenever using someone else work, such as quoting them, using there finding and so on, one has to give credit to the source that they found it. Also learned, that there are laws that protect from that to happening. So any time that I was required to do any type of research paper we were required to cite the source. Weather it was a small picture I found off Google. One thing that I learned from this was that when using a video that is copy righted or an audio version the maximum that is allow to play is for 30 seconds. This makes sense, now that I think about it. I now understand why in iTunes when one is deciding to buy a song or anything with audio the video are long. They are really short.

After reading this week’s topic, I felt that there a lot I didn't know about copyright. The only thing I feel about this is that there are a lot of rules and some of them may not be specific. I feel like there are many ways one can be using other people ideas without the intention in doing so. Another topic that I feel strongly about is Cyberbullying. Though I have never experience this type of bullying because I don't get on social media much (other than Facebook, event then I don't post much) and when I do I am aware of what can happen when you write or post something that could harm one reputation or even yourself. Also I have learned that it’s not good to post thing like this because it could hurt one in the future. Cyberbullying, has become a big issue in today society and I think that the best way to solve this at the moment is educating people such as kids about it. Because once, things are post it hard to erase it.

Mapping Information

Before the Mapping Information activity, the way I would conduct research would depend on the type of research I would be doing. Such as if it was for a scholarly purpose, like a research paper. I would use the library data base and look for the information that I would find useful from articles that were provided, or go to the library and look for book pertaining to the topic I will be writing about. There are time that I would use search engine such as Google, to get an idea to what I am looking at. Now if i were to be doing research on my own for fun, such as if were to want to know, if its worth buying a product. I would do my research of the product using search engine (like Google), and look at several links and read what they say. Before doing the activity I felt confident and knew most of the topics that was going to be covered about search engine and search techniques. A reason why, is because I already had this lesson back in high school. Where every year we were required by our English department to write one research paper for the year, some time we were to write 4. Which this included that our teacher had to go over how one can determine if the source that we are looking at is creditable or not. What techniques to use and such.  It was a pain at the time, but I am glad that we did that. Cause it made life much easier my freshman year of college when I had papers due almost every week.

After this activity, I don't think my habits will changing much after this activity. I know that there are a lot of website that brings in with false information, and i should be careful with that. As I mention above in the first paragraph, my habits when determining if a website is creditable is very wise, well when it come to doing scholarly paper. Though there is always room for improvement. In which i would consider changing my habit when doing research for fun. I have realized that i have learned that it would be a wise choice to do, because some of the reviews that i have read would be solely base on someone bias opinion. Learning from this activity i think will affect my teaching by considering if the source is creditable or not. Although i will not be dealing much with having student write a research paper like the English department will. It will be something to be kept in mind in case I want the student to do a research activity. I think it will affect students who are not willing to put in the time to do the research a lot.

In conclusion I found this activity kind of a review. Though I did learned some few things that i didn't know they excited. such as the what .mil , .ac , .sch stand for. I had never seen them before. Its good to know what it means for next time I do a research on something and look at the URL of the site. Although this activity didn't bring much for me to learn from, it will help me to keep in mind of it when working in this class. This activity makes me ponder now, if we will be doing something that will require some research. Like maybe a research paper or something like that? Also also make me wonder if future generation will have creditable sources, that they can use. I feel like something like that will happen soon, especially since now we are living in a generation where were are slowly walking away paper copy to electronic versions

Introduction

Hello my name is Maria Zaldivar. I am a junior at Texas A&M- University-Commerce.In Commerce i am very involved in many thing such as being part of a sorority, Kappa Delta Chi, the Hispanic Student Association, was part of the committee team for Relay for Life (not sure if i want to do it this year cause i have a lot going on), a member of the math club, and a student worker for the math department (a math tutor).  I plan on majoring in mathematics with a minor in education. With this I plan to teach 8-12th grade but mostly high school, not sure what subject in math I would like but for sure not geometry. Teaching has always been a dream of mine in which i got the experience back in high school to be able to teach several time a classroom in the elementary level.

While going through school I was very fortunate to go to a district that had the resources to be able to get new type of technology every almost every year. Sometimes my class got to be the test class to see how the new type of technology worked in the classroom with student our age. I have got to admit I learned many cool thing through it. I din't have much of a difficult learning to use and adjust the technology in the classroom. While teaching a classroom full of elementary student I was able to implement several use of technology in the classroom such as using the Smartboard for fun games, use the computer for a research activity, and many other technology that i really can't remember the names of. I plan to use technology in the classroom to help student learn a topic that would go right for the lesson that i plan to teach. I do not want to really heavily on technology though, because as of right now, in my calculus 3 class all we do is use a program mathematica. I got to admit its a nice program to have but, i do not feel that i am learning in the class, that i would feel ready to take the test. So balancing out the use of technology i feel its important.  

I think taking this class will be interesting and it will be a class that I would enjoy. Through the semester I hope to gain more knowledge of the resources that i am able to access and be able to use some of it or help me bring out other ideas to teach a subject. I do not want to become a boring teacher that student will fall asleep in the classroom or just assigned the busy work all day. Let face it nobody had fun in those classes. In other words what i want to say is that I would like for the student to the get out the most in mathematics, then from what they came in. As for one of my goals beside leaning new ways of teaching is of course succeed in the classroom, by that i will stay active and keep up with my assignments as they are given to me. I hope to learned many things in the class that i didn't know of. Like i am doing right now, I never knew how to create a blog before or ever knew how to get started in it. I might even use this even after this class is over.