This is the first online week. The online lecture was about referencing and the importance of it.
Referencing is a way of using someone else's research and ideas to write your own work. It is a way of protecting yourself from copyright. Referencing is essential to this assignment as I need to find 5 resources that provide information about using technology for a drama class and then reference the sources and the information they provided.
There are 4 steps in referencing, these are:

  • Record- the important information that is required to reference the source correctly.

  • Organise- Use a program such as Endnote to reference them correctly.

  • Cite- In text reference anything that you may have re-stated from the source.

  • List- Create a reference list that is in alphabetical order.

There are so many website that can be used to find resources. I have used the Murdoch University FindIt database before and find it very effective especially being about the limit the resource type to a specific one. GoogleScholar was a database that I had heard of but never used before. I found it very easy to use and was happy that I did not need to type in too much information to find a great resource. Although YouTube is a very common video library, I couldn’t find anything on it and therefore tried other sites such as Google videos, Bing and Teachertube.

After much research I finally found a video that was exactly what I was looking for. It was on the YouTube and lucky for me had only been posted for a few days. I felt so very lucky to come across this video as it was so simple but so educational. A teacher giving the viewer details about how she uses technology in her drama class is very effective as it is coming from a teacher who uses those strategies everyday.
I came across a newspaper article using Murdoch University Findit that is from a New York newspaper about using two different online programs to incorporate drama and technology together to encourage students to learn. I was interested in this article as those two programs are something a student can use at home and school to receive feedback on their work from a diverse range of students. I wish I had something like that to use when I was in school as I feel criticism and feedback always allow you to learn more.