Nick’s all things uni drama blog

Well have been defiantly away for awhile but I have a renewed vision to report on some of the the stuff I will be undertaking this year.

I guess I probably should have started this post with the fact that I have now completed my under graduate degree and am now undertaking an honors year in drama. So the plan is to I guess write about the things that happening in the project and hopefully hear some feedback from any readers out there.

Some background to the project probably necessary. At the moment its not incredibly structured or even I don’t have that exact grasp on exactly what I will be researching and collecting data on specifically. At the moment I want to look at the basically cyber bullyin, cyber stalking, cyber harrashment or anything cyber related and was intending on writing a theatre in education piece about these issues. The government is pumping large amount of money into the perceived problems they see in relation to the online world while more and more people are hooking up over the net, people can make their avatar who they really want to be. None of this really answers the question about what the draw to it is nor why tech natives seem to fit so much more easily into it than non-natives? Anyway this is not really give a clear or even semi-transparent view of what I’m trying to do but the idea’s will come after the research begins which should shape the project.

I asked two teachers seperatly to discuss whether they believed that the devleoped section of my portfolio adequatly displayed the 7th VIT attribute ‘Graduating teachers reflect on, evaluate and improve their professional practice’. The first i discussed it with was Robyn a first year out primary teacher. Robyn saw my second draft and since discussing it with her i further changed my lay out again. In the first draft i tried to display a lesson plan with teachers and students comments alongside with some annotation to show where the attribute was being displayed. I struggled immensly with this format and decided to scrap the idea and start over. The second draft i decided to pick out speciffic areas of the VIT attribute and use teachers, students and others comments to show that i was working towards best practice of the attribute. This is the version that I showed to Robyn, Robyn said i had the right idea but due to the fact that i was trying to rpesent it on A4 sized paper it made everything to cluttered and the information hard to decipher. She said adapting the idea to be in an A3 format with the attribute in the middle and all the information surrounding that would make it less cluttered and easier to understand. She also commented that formating it in a style that went through each A3 sheet would add consistancy and further make it easier to follow. So I took Robyn’s advice and rearanged everything so that the specific area of each attribute was centered on an A3 sheet with some of my own comments written in Italics under it describing how i was working towards best practice. Around this i stuck all the comments that illustarted the points i had made in italics. I was much happier with this lay out because it definatly looked much clearer and consistant. I showed the third draft to Robyn and she said that it was definatly clear as to how and why i am working my way towards best practice. The second teacher i showed the portfolio piece was to a tertiary trade (mechanics) teacher of who teaches apprentices and secondary school VET students. His name is funnily enough also Robin. Robin had a little difficulty seeing how it all came together but after actually describing how it all worked he agreed that this piece definatly showed how I was workign towards best practice. He did comment though that high lighting certain sections would definatly make speciffic points stand out and draw peoples attention to staright away. So i guess this si what i’ll submit and see how it all goes.