The Beginnning

     What can I say? These first weeks of school are crazy but we are putting on our happy faces and dealing with Plan B. For the people who don't know, we are in Plan B because our new building is still in construction. I can not wait till we are in our building. Fingers crossed that our school will be ready ASAP.


     At the beginning of the week we began talking about Copyright laws, Public Domain, Fair use, and Creative Commons. At first I was lost. I didn't know what we were talking about. You really don't realize how intense and strict the laws are for this, because I didn't. We watched videos to try and help us. The videos were interesting, however it does not matter how interesting the video(s) are it is still complicated. I did learn that Copyright is a way to make sure your own creative work is safe. When I say safe, I mean that nobody else can claim your work as their own. If you use someone else's creative work for your own use, without crediting the owner/author, then you can be sued/charged for stealing. Think first before you use someone else's work for a personal use. Later in the week we took some quizzes to actually see how much we knew. The questions on the quizzes are mind blowing. So many rules and things deal with copyrights.
      Watch my Prezi and maybe you can learn about copyrights, just like I did. ENJOY!!


    

Copyright on Prezi

      In class we didn't talk all about copyrights. I learned about stems. Stems are words within words, kinda or suffixes. There is a lot of stems. Some I knew and others I learned. Now hopefully I can break down words that might be more advanced for myself. To help of remember and learn the "words" I used vocabulary games.


     I also, learned how to hyperlink. It is not that special but I feel accomplished.It helps a lot if you turn in your work through the Internet, email, etc. 

    Although all the hardships we as a class or a personal hardship, we can get through it. Keep our minds open and positive. If you have a negative attitude then you will put everyone down, not just yourself. So with that said, Let's remember how much we wanted this. It has to get worst before it can get better. We are halfway through the worst part. The school will get finished, we will start clubs and do tons of fun stuff. So your not the only one down in the dumps about not being in the school or living the "high school dream", we all are. So don't complain, be thankful.