Back to Task 2
Posted by Tash Cussons on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
So I've had to put our work on assignment three on hold so I'm able to finish up on my assignment two.
Our task here is to chose a topic of interest to us and research how technology would be useful in teaching this subject in the classroom. Initially I decided on the Solar System, however I was having difficulty finding certain articles on this specific subject so I decided to broaden my topic a little and I have gone with Science.
We needed to include at least one each of these references: book, journal article, refereed conference paper, website and movie.
Iv explored many new search engines that I previously didn't know existed such as ERIC and Proquest, while also using ones I'm very familiar with like google search.
My biggest learning experience from this task so far has been learning how to use EndNote (image above). Having previously never used the program before I was feeling very intimidated by it! However the information we recieved both in our tutorials and the lectures as well as information provided on the companion website has made the learning process much less daunting.
Now that i know how to use it, I can see how much of an invaluable tool this will be for the rest of my university degree, it really is a fantastic way to manage all your references!
Our task here is to chose a topic of interest to us and research how technology would be useful in teaching this subject in the classroom. Initially I decided on the Solar System, however I was having difficulty finding certain articles on this specific subject so I decided to broaden my topic a little and I have gone with Science.
We needed to include at least one each of these references: book, journal article, refereed conference paper, website and movie.
Iv explored many new search engines that I previously didn't know existed such as ERIC and Proquest, while also using ones I'm very familiar with like google search.
My biggest learning experience from this task so far has been learning how to use EndNote (image above). Having previously never used the program before I was feeling very intimidated by it! However the information we recieved both in our tutorials and the lectures as well as information provided on the companion website has made the learning process much less daunting.
Now that i know how to use it, I can see how much of an invaluable tool this will be for the rest of my university degree, it really is a fantastic way to manage all your references!