This week was the final lecture and workshop of the unit. Although I feel relieved for classes to be over I also feel nervous about the mark I may have recieved for the assignment three. The lecture this week was about the exam and what we will need to revise. I currently feel quite confident when it comes to the exam but I know that after the study break I will feel sure of myself. Using the information I have learnt this semester will definately prepare me for the future and the many ways t...
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As we are coming to the end of this semester I felt the need to re-blog about Yola once again and how far I have come with it since the first day. to me Yola has become a easier and effective way to talk about my emotions and have a bit of a vent about different things that have happened in the semester.

Truth be told I haven't touch my Home page or Photographs since the first assignment. I have felt no need to update it or add information as nothing about me has changed.Presenting Assignment...
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Working in a group is about collaborating together to form something better than what you could do by yourself. I personally have never really enjoyed working on projects in a group as there is always a person or two that are left to complete the assignment alone. Group work requires cooperation which according to Meaningful Learning with Technology requires conversation among peers. during conversation they can socially negotiate their understanding of the task and the method they can use to...
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Authentic learning is creating activities that are framed around 'real-life' contexts in which they would be used.

A few weeks ago in class we were asked to show the rest of the students what we had accomplished so far. While standing in front of everyone we were told that our authentic task idea was not authentic enough and had to have a outcome for the students. While feeling embarressed and slightly frustrated I felt the need to look into authentic learning a little bit more so make sure I...
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I am currently finding Wikispaces hard to use. According to Meaningful Learning with Technology, Wikis create an online environment for students to join in a community while learning about a specific topic. Wikispaces is a website in which you are able to create pages of necessary information for a learning purpose and this is how we are presenting assignment three. Wikispaces allows you to also communicate with your group members and also allows to edit anything you desire, which is helpful ...
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Todays lecture was based on the idea that in the future there will be no need for teachers as computers and technology can do the job just as well, if not better. Mobiles are now being used in classroom to make digitals stories such as slowmations. I like th idea of using mobile phones in the classroom. Thye can be very educational especially when using the media that it has such as music, camera or video player. Even with the use of the internet nowadays it will allows students to research t...
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Today we were back on campus after the small break. We had guest speaker Rob Phillips again to discuss the many different ways that technology can be used in the classroom to enhance learning. He began by discussing how computers are used in learning by teachers and by students as computer can be used as a tool to support knowledge construction, explore information and reflect back on previous work( like this blog). I remember my family buying it's first computer when I was 5 now I am so depe...
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So I am just about to hand in my assignment two and although I tried my hardest I am worried about the outcome as my other assignment that I worked hard on only recieved a credit.
I feel so much more confident in using EndNote now and have been able to use it for my other assignments much more easier than before. I feel like I struggled to write a great report as there was so much information in every resource and not very much room to write it. Only using a maximum of 2 pages was a challenge...
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This week’s online tutorial is about the Wikispace website and how to use it. I have never used or heard about this website before so I am quite worried about learning how to use it without the help from Jenni. I have realised that I have yet to receive an invitation from the website to join and have spent the last couple of days emailing around to get some help. I ended up looking to the discussion board and finding a discussion post that had the email to contact which was a big relief.

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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...

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As this week was the Easter break there have been no lectures or workshops to complete. I decided to continue to research for resources for my assignment. I used Google to find a website that went into detail about why computers are important in a drama classroom with is where I was able to find a website for a New South Wales department of Education and Communities that has a page included about what can be achieved with a laptop in the drama classroom which otherwise could not be accomplish...

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Today is the last in-class lecture and workshop for three weeks. Guest speaker Rob Phillips discussed computers and what the advertising really means when discussing computers. I had never understood what RAM, Processor and GHz stood for and after this lecture I had a very small understanding of it. The class was very active and I found myself moving around the room to understand the way a computer works for effectively. The lecture was informative but I don't think I could comprehend the inf...

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This week classes were back on campus. Our lecture began by discussing the assignment that is due on Friday and how we are all going with it. Continuing on from lecture three we discussed authentic learning in more detail and how being an authentic teacher can help the students to gain more knowledge and remember the information that they received from the class. We then discussed the next assignment that is due in week 10 which focuses on referencing and using Endnote. I have been using Endn...

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This week was study week and although I was glad to have a break I decided to finish the draft of this assignment as soon as possible do that my peer can review it. By the Monday I had posted my draft online and finished the first three blogs and felt proud of the progress so far. When the peer reviews came up I felt nervous, not because someone was judging my work but because I was judging someone else's. I was worried that I would mark it and not see anything wrong with it or that my work w...

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This week we discussed teaching with technology and how to make it authentic in the classroom. The lecture was interesting to watch as our lecturers used examples for the movie 'School of Rock' to show how being an authentic teaching can educate the students more than an unauthentic lesson. In the lecture, the word pedagogy was used which I had never heard before and therefore was confused about what it meant. We were provided with a definition which was the function or work of a teacher or t...

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This week in the lecture and workshop we focused on blogs and what needs to be included in them to achieve a greater grade. Blogs can be used for reflecting on previous experiences in or out of the classroom, they can help you to discuss what happened and how you can reflect on it and make it better next time. I have never used a blog before but I have used reflective journals to writing down the situation and what can be done to make the class more beneficial to the students. I enjoy being a...

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This week was my first week back at university after the long summer break. In EDN113 we are learning about technology and how it can be used in the classroom to benefit children. In the workshop we are using the smartboard and as I am studying early childhood and primary education I know how important technology can be to help a child to learn. Learning about the smartboard and what it can be used for will definitely help in the way that I will teach in the future as then I will be able t...

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