Webspiration/ Special Education

http://www.mywebspiration.com/go/787258

This is a link to My Webspiration concept map I did based on my major which is Special Education.  The five tools that I showed that I would use in my major was Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Youtube, and Google.  I than described an example of how I would use each tool when I become a Special Education Teacher.

Concept Map

     This week in class we learned how to do a concept map.  Different websites you can use to create concept maps are Inspiration, Webspiration, Bubbl, or Gliffy.  Concept Maps are great to get information organized in a manner to see everything laid out on one page.
     I am studying Special Education and concept maps will definitly be a great tool to use in the classroom when I am teaching.  It will be a good tool to have students use in order to become involved in the classroom and the material that they are learning.  Concept maps are also a great way to become more familiar with the internet and become more comfortable with it as well. 
     This website on wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map , shows what a concept map is, how to read them, and different ways to use them as well.  This website also shows the history of concept maps and how they started out very simple and how they have become very complex over time.

Copyright Law and Fair Use

  Last week in class, which was week four, we learned about the Copyright Law and Fair Use. The Copyright Law is a form of protection provided to the authors of original work which includes literacy, dramatic, musical, artistic, and other intellectual works. Fair Use is the certain limitations to the Copyright law which determines whether or not a particular use is fair. There is four areas of Fair Use, the first is the purpose and character of the use. The next is the nature of the copyrighted work. The third is the amount of the portion used in relation to the the copyrighted work as a whole. Lastly is the effect of the use upon the potential market for the copyrighted work.
  My major is Special Education and the copyright law and fair use law relate to my field of study. Since I am going to be a teacher my students are going to have to know what the copyright law is and the fair use law when writing papers and citing resources for papers as well.
  This link, http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm,shows the definition of copyright law and fair use in easy terms. This would be a good website to teach students what these laws are and how to use them.

Copyright Law

The Copyright Law is a set of rights that granted to the author or the creator of an original piece of work.  The copyright law doesn't protect ideas it just protects the author's expression of their ideas.  The British Statute of Anne was the first act to protect the rights of authors.  The purpose of copyright is to return value to creators so they can feel a sense of accomplishment and to provide access to content for the public.  The link embedded is a youtube video explaining what the Copyright Law is.

Mac Computers

This past week in class we learned about Mac Computers.  We learned how the work by viewing tutorials and overviews.  Some of the new things I learned about the Mac Computers was how to use the doc and how to make new folders in order to store different documents.  I thought it was really cool how I learned how to take a screen shot because I never knew how to take one before and I am required to take them in many of my classes.

I am majoring in Special Education and learning about Mac Computers is really going to help me for my major.  In the field of education, new technology is being brought into classrooms everyday.  I believe that this class is going to help me so much with my major because computers are a huge part of our generation and in order for me to teach people later on in life I am going to need to learn a lot about computers and technology.  Therefore, this lesson on how to use Mac Computers and the different programs there are on a Mac is going to help me become a better teacher and be able to teach students more interactiviely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh Here is a link to a wikipedia site which tells you about the history of Mac computers and how they came to be.  I thought it was really interesting because it is crazy how different the first Mac computer looked compared to the newest Mac computer that there is.