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    Copyright is a legal protector that keeps the things that creators create safe. Copyright causes a user to have to get permission before using someone else's material. Fair use is the ability to use another user's copyrighted work without their permission but only to a certain extent. The factors this use depends on are amount, nature, purpose, and effect. As a teacher, I would deal with these concepts by using a software checking program called Turnitin which detects any plagiarized or copywritten material. I would also have a long conversation with my students about the repercussions that could occur from using copywritten material or plagiarizing. 

    Cyberbullying has blown up within the past few years and it is important to protect our students from the harsh things that may be said online. I feel at school it is important to have policies put in place to protect the children like punishments for inappropriate online activity even though it occurs outside of school. Bullying of any kind should not be tolerated. In my classroom, I would like to create a safe online space for my students to communicate with me and other students where conversations can be monitored in order to keep safe. Lack of funding is an extreme issue in schools as well not only in school also in children's at-home lives. I personally would not want my students to feel like they have to pay for things in my class and I would be happy to provide the extra things like stuff for school parties so no one would have to purchase anything. But since school budgets may be tight there are other cost-cutting ideas such as becoming a lower waste classroom in order to conserve paper for longer if the school does not have funds to purchase more. 

    I feel I learned so much through creating the newsletter I really did not know you could do that much in word. I struggled a lot at first with the formatting but by the time I got to the permission slip, it all clicked. I thought it was really cool how even though there are two separate columns I could still use the shape tool to override that and use up the space I had left for the permission slip. I think I could improve on my creativity and understanding of how to place a banner without it messing up my formatting later on I had a lot of trouble with that but after messing with it a bit I got it figured out.