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As a student, I generally use Microsoft Word to write essays, resumes, or other documents which involve writing many sentences or paragraphs. Occasionally I would have to use Word to compose creative projects such as making quizzes for other students, taking class notes, or compiling a document with pictures. My teachers often use Microsoft Word as an avenue to type out the instructions for a class assignment, a syllabus, or flowcharts for the class to fill out. My teachers often used to do "fill-in-the-blank" notes and type them all out for us on Word.

Many times my teachers would complain that they could not pass out or make copies of certain documents because of copy right issues. If they did make copies, they would have to collect them after class so none of us took them home. I found copyright issues very annoying to deal with, because I love having copies of my own and being able to keep physical hard copies of all my papers/notes/documents. As a teacher, I would search the internet and find other sources to use and provide my students with other online options, that don't involve copyright. Another way to avoid copyright would be if instead of making copies of a paper and handing them out to my students, I made a Powerpoint of the material and taught it in a different way with pictures and my own interpretation of the material. Avoiding copyright can be tedious and annoying, but it is important to make sure all copyright rules are being thoroughly followed inside and outside the classroom.

The one new thing I learned in the Word and Graphics 1 assignment was the date/time feature. I do think that is helpful, and will come in handy in the future. Everything else we used for the assignment I already knew how to do, but it was a nice refresher, and that was the first time I've had to apply all those skills together. I think it was good that we did that assignment, because when I am a teacher I know I will have to make many, many quizzes for my children. Generally none of my teachers ever put graphics into my quizzes, but I really like that we were required to do that, because I realized the graphic really brings together the questions the quizzes are asking. I will be more likely to include graphics or Wordart in my future quizzes, thanks to this assignment!