Spring '24 EME2040-004

As an educator, I imagine I would use most of my material from a textbook, but for the material I create myself would fall under the Fair Use clause, as well as my student's work. To avoid copyright infringement, I would use the textbook for the basis of my instruction, as well as some supplemental material, but otherwise base my classroom instruction on a culmination of knowledge. I think informing students about copyright and fair use is a moot point, to a degree, and think that educating them on plagiarism would be sufficient in a classroom setting for what the student needs. Decreased productivity is a big deal in classrooms that have technology requirements, like media classes, or that have lax rules on personal technology uses. To address these issues, I would limit personal device usage in the classroom to restrict to use only when necessary, at the end of class, or when there is downtime. If the situation were to arise where a student abused their device usage in my class, ...

Hi again!  Using Microsoft Word in K-12 was definitely a little different than it is in college. I don't really remember using it much until I got to high school, and even then it was pretty limited to just short papers. Using Word in high school was just write your name, date, subject line, and then your essay, with no formatting guidelines. In college, of course, it's more involved, with font limitations, font size requirements, strict citation formatting... In high school, I preferred to use Word because my homework was centralized on one computer or I carried it around on a flash drive, but now I work on several different desktops (two at home, and I moved around eight different ones at work), so I prefer to use Google Docs now, that way I can work on homework wherever I go. The most important standard for me is the ISTE Standards for Education Leaders 3.1: Equity and Citizenship Advocate. The core standards for this section are  to ensure that the student has access to te...

 Hiya!   My name is Sammiiy Spence. I'm a full-time 911 dispatcher and full-time student. I have three corgis and four cats. Some fun facts about me are that I read around 300-350 books a year, my favorite color is pink, and I have 40 tattoos (and counting)! I have limited experience with technology in an educational setting. I'm mostly limited to using Canvas, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Google Docs. Even just using those, though, I've still mostly just used Word and Outlook; not many of my classes have needed PowerPoints. I've used Google Docs to work on group projects, such as big papers. At work, we use Excel a lot, so I'm looking forward to using Excel in this class, so I can translate those skills there, too!  My personal learning network is mostly work related. A lot of 911 dispatchers communicate through Facebook groups and other forums, like APCO (Associated Public-Safety Communications Officials) email groups or other sub-chats through the website's...