EME2040 Class Blog

      Copyright and Fair Use are inherently 'simple' concepts - copyright is simply the concept of owning an idea or intellectual property, as it's usually referred to as. Fair Use is the concept that intellectual property should be allowed to be innovated and expanded upon by other people without infringing upon the copyright. As a teacher, I feel as though it isn't too difficult to avoid copyright infringement - the only thing that you should really be 'copying' verbatim is a textbook or similar resource, which you would be paying to use in that fashion anyway. As long as you cite the source as where you are receiving your information, and don't pirate the book, it should constitute fair use.     Technology Implementation Issues are an interesting idea - it's something that my Intro to Education class discussed last semester. In terms of academic dishonesty, there's not really much that you can do to solve this issue, dependent on where the technol...

      My experience using Word as a student is, at least I feel it is, a fairly standard one. I don't have much of an opinion on it because all it is is a tool - the feeling is comparable to how a gardener feels about their rake. Word is preferable to other, similar mediums, but ultimately I have no 'feelings' towards it. Again though, I do feel as though Word is better than other tools like Google's Docs, simply because I've used it for longer. Honestly, Docs probably has more that you can do with it, considering it's tied directly to the internet so it's easy to install plug-ins, however I do not wish to learn an new program that ultimately performs the exact same functions.     I believe two of these standards are incredibly important for educators to hold, firstly that of the Leader, but more important that of the Analyst, which I believe is also an integral facet of properly leading. Intuition is certainly a core part of teaching, however when it comes ...

 Aidan O'Horan          This week has been very, very unfortunate for me. I came down with a sickness, not too sure what, close to the start of the week and I have been plagued by it ever since. I took a rapid covid test when I first felt sick, which was negative, however I fear that that may have been wrong. The strange part is that it has come and gone - I'll feel really sick for a day but the next day I'll be completely fine. Tomorrow I'm going to go get a full test, though at this point I'm not sure if it matters anymore, I've already quarantined past CDC recommendations.          As for my prior experience using technology in an educational setting I actually have a good deal of a past with this. I ran a Discord server in my junior and senior year of high school - COVID years.... - that was used for tutoring students of all ages. Discord itself is a communication platform, however it's great for storing conversations, documents...