Charlies FUNtastic Blog

     Copyright and fair use are both laws that exist to uphold the standards of intellectual property in the United States. These laws protect individuals who have "copyrighted" work and can be used to harm those who use their work. Personally, I believe intellectual property laws are bad and feel like I have been learning about them since middle school. For me, I like to think about the idea behind intellectual property laws more holistically. Intellectual property is nothing more than a way to attach a profit incentive to an idea. I propose two scenarios. In scenario A when there is a global pandemic different scientists representing different organizations and corporations all take their hand in creating a vaccine because they know their intellect was going to be protected post-vaccine creation. Protection in this scenario means they are able to profit off of the vaccine and none of these "competitors" can work on their vaccine. This creates competition so that t...

      My relationship with Microsoft Word as a student throughout my K-12 and now collegiate life has been nothing short of complicated. Growing up I was fortunate enough to receive my first laptop in 7th grade, a hand-me-down from my sister, with this I was able to have access to a whole new world of entertainment, academic productivity, and lots more. When it came time that I needed a source to electronically write on I chose MS Word as that is what was available to me. As time went on I came to find it incredibly helpful and became what some would call a 'staunch' Word supporter. This was only proliferated by my involvement with debate in which I found myself using a computer mouse that had additional buttons that I had programmed to make debate-style documents easier to make on MS Word. Then, in the ladder half of my senior year, I watched a video about google docs and decided to make a hard switch to the software in College. Since I have been a user I have been thoro...

    Hello, my name is Charlie Seldin and I am a sophomore at Florida State University. In school, I am Social Science Education major looking to get my master's in education and eventually my Ph.D. so that I can teach on a collegiate level. During my summers I spend my time working at a sleep-away camp in upstate New York working with younger boys day to day. I see both my passion for history/teaching and my job as a camp counselor in similar ways. I am educating and entertaining kids who will go on to hopefully do great things and I would like to believe that maybe I was a part of that growth. As a teacher, you get to feel this same sort of rewarding feeling within your occupation. This attracted me to a job within education. Overall I enjoy where I am at in my life and cant wait to see what will come especially at school.      Being as that I went to school in the 2000/2010 era technology in the classroom was never 'new' to me and if anything only expanded as ...