Plagiarism

To plagiarise something is to copy someone else's words. Sometimes it can be more than that though. It can also include buying, stealing, borrowing, or hiring someone to write your paper. In essence plagiarism is illegal and wrong. When it comes to writing a paper, report, review, or any number of other pieces of writing you should always use your own words. If you have a need to use someone else's words you should always put those words in a quotation and cite your source. Plagiarism is a tricky subject I know and when writing a paper I am always very self-conscious of what I am writing and how I am writing it.
When you are assigned a project or paper the teacher is trying to get your words and feelings. The teacher is trying to evaluate you and what you can do. A teacher doesn't want someone else's work. They are trying to evaluate you and what you are capable of. Why steal someone else's writing or other media when you can develop your own? Give your thoughts, feelings, works, and other things. Evaluate yourself and learn more of you! Don't steal someone else's!

ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange)

ALEX or Alabama Learning Exchange is a website dedicated to helping Alabama's educators, students, and their parents. It is a resource website that is continually expanding. It relies on the input of the people who use it. Alex is a tool to share lesson plans, activities, information, advice, web links, and more. You can also find and connect with the Alabama Courses of Study that is provided by the National Board of Certified Teachers. This website is designed to keep Alabama's educators, students, and parents up to date on all of the latest standards, methods, and information available.
I believe that ALEX will be a great help to me when I become a teacher. I am nervous about first starting out and I believe that this website will help me to get through all of the apprehension. ALEX with it's connection to other educators, lesson plans, activities, and information will be a big help when I first start out and throughout my career as an educator! I believe that ALEX will be a big help to me and I look forward to using it in the future. I believe that everyone should look into ALEX themselves and discover the wealth of information and help that ALEX offers!

Review of Mr. Stephen Sullivan's PowerPoint

Mr. Sullivan's PowerPoint was very helpful in educating me of the different ways to help the sight-impaired. I have a good friend who is also legally blind. It makes me happy to know that there are ways to help her to see the computer better. I had no idea, until I read Mr. Sullivan's PowerPoint, that there is software out there that can help people like my friend to be able to read and understand what they are trying to see on the computer! I am glad that there is a whole array of software out there like screen magnification, screen reader, and voice recognition. I look forward to learning how to use some of these and applying them. I am very excited to be learning how to help future sight-impaired students or friends!
I also had to review another website on this topic. The website http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing also covers the material that Mr. Sullivan's PowerPoint did. However, this web site went into more detail of the different software's and programs that you can use to help the sight-impaired. This website offers a whole list of different programs and methods that can be used and bought for the sight-impaired and learning disabled. The website gives information for people with disabilities, screen readers, browsers with adaptive technology, voice browsers, and other access methods.

Who I Am

Hello Class! My name is Jessica Kiser. I am 21 years old. I am originally from Atlanta, Ga. I lived there up until about a year and a half ago! That's when I moved to Gulf Shores with my husband, right after we got married! We moved here for a change of pace and scenery. This is my 1st semester back at school since we moved! I'm so happy to be back in school! In Atlanta I was majoring in Art Education but when we moved down here I found out that USA doesn't offer that! So I changed my major to a double major in Secondary Education English/Language Arts. I'm okay with this change because literature is also one of my passions! I love to do my art, take pictures, read, and horse back ride (although that doesn't happen as often as I would like!)! I am currently working at Books-A-Million in Gulf Shores.
For my PowerPoint Presentation I am planing on putting lots of pictures in it. I love working with PowerPoint! It used to be a hobby of mine in High School! I'm going to cover my family, my heritage, my wedding, my husband, and probably my hobbies and youth. I may also cover other things that interest me like what I like to read, and my dog! I am really looking forward to this project and I can't wait to present it to everyone!