Blog Post #2

As a student, I have mainly used Microsoft Word to write papers, or make resumes, or newsletters. I have seen my teachers use MS in basically the same ways. They use it to make newsletters for parents, or charts with diagrams and such. It is a very useful tool.I like the idea of the actual newspaper model presented in chapter nine. I think it could prepare students to write in an investigative way. 

I took Writing, Editing, in Print, and Online last year and about 1/4 of our class was on copyright and fair use. I have learned the basic rules and how and why it was set up. I would teach students the rules to copyright and what is acceptable and not acceptable. I would show them the way to properly give credit to the places they received the information from.

The skills I acquired from Word and Graphics 1 was the basic how-to of preparing a quiz with the tools provided by MS. I like how it made us think about things we would actually quiz our students on. I would probably improve it next time by adding more graphics, or making it more appealing to the eye. Students get tired at looking at a boring white piece of paper;