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If you went to school at all in the 2000s, there’s almost no doubt in my mind that you’re familiar with Microsoft Word. If you’re anything like me, you’ve sworn by it for the past decade. Microsoft Word is one of the easiest tools to use in regards to writing papers, making brochures, creating resumes, sending formal letters, creating invitations and so much more. I still use Microsoft Word on an almost daily basis to make organized checklists for my scatterbrained self. I’m looking forward to using Microsoft Word to keep mundane information interesting by way of different templates and tricks I hope to learn in this class.

I personally wasn’t very familiar with the real definition of copyright and had never even heard of “fair use” until this class. In school, I was taught that if you didn’t cite your sources, you could be sued for copyright infringement. That was something I was glad to hear isn’t necessarily required by law. I think once I’m a teacher if there’s anything I can do to save other teachers time and effort, I will because teaching is tedious work and we should all be in it together. In order to help out other teachers, I’d license my work with Creative Commons, allowing others to use it and cut out some of their planning time.

I’ve been on Twitter almost as long as it’s been around so I honestly haven’t learned too much from using it in class. I’m hoping that by the time I begin teaching, there’ll be an educational social media site sort of like Twitter to which only licensed teachers can grant access. That would be a great way to allow protected and monitored communication between students for group projects, study guides (because who really does those alone?) and so much more. Maybe that’s my next million-dollar-idea.