Blog Post 1

   Overall I've had a pretty good week at Gaston Early College. I've meet some new friends and we’re having a great time together. My teachers are really nice and even though they give out a lot of work they are still are great. There’s been a lot of new stuff I've had to learn like where to go and what to do. I've enjoyed the fun activities that the teachers have put together for us. I also enjoy my club I'm in on Friday too. I can tell that Girls Club is going to be so much fun. So far this school has been better than I expected. I'm starting to really enjoy this school and I can't wait to what's next.

Even though this is a great school there is a lot of books to carry around because of all the homework and classwork, I'm really not used to that so its definitely something different. Other than that everyday this week has been fun and there's always something you don't expect.

One of my classes that I have is Intro to Publications. This class was taught me a bunch this week. Some of the words we have learned in the last two weeks from my Intro to Publication class is:

• Copyright- A law that protects a creators ownership of and control over the work he or she creates requiring other people to get creators permission before they copy, share, or perform that work
• Creative Commons- A type of copyright that makes it easy to use as long as you give the creator credits 
• Public Domain- Is work that is not protected by copyright and so you can use it as you like.
• Fair Use-to use a small amount of someones creative work without permission in a certain way.
• Commercial Purpose- to use a small amount of someones creative work without permission
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We have also learned some new web tools in Intro to Publication too, like Schoology and Quizlet. Schoology is a website that helps you keep up with what the teachers here need us to do, also websites and information that we need to know. Quizlet helps me with my schoolwork too by letting me practice my stem words. Quizlet offers you tests word games and much more. The positives about these websites is that it helps me do better in class and the negatives are that now everything is online.

In class we have learned a new digital literacy component this week called copyright. Copyright is a law that protects information that is your own work. This component helps me know what the rules are to copyright and how to do it reasonably. By me learning this new component it will help me do my projects at school the right way. Also it helps me when I'm online searching a picture or information.







Roberto Bustamante, Copyright Symbol,http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1387/4607566698_ebbf099c59_m.jpg, 14 May,2010