Learning Journal Four 30/03/2010

Since my last journal I have done lost my think about my project and now I feel much more happy with my project idea and how I am going to be writing up my project and all my ideas.

The campus session on the 30^th March was really helpful I am really happy that I was able to make it as I feel was able to take notes down that will help me write my project up and to help get my draft copy in by the 9^th April and feel really happy about the work I have done so far.

Also in the session we talked about Ethics we talked about how impotent it is for your project and for the people you will be working with in your project. For me this was really impotent as I will be work with children age between seven to fourteen year olds so now I how make sure to keep my project save and also make sure the people I am working with are happy with research and all so making sure my project is done in the right way.

What I need to do before the next session

Make sure I do activity seven

Do my first draft of my Project Proposals

Keep on research my project

Learning Journal Three 16/03/10

Designing research methods

I was not able to attend this session as I was performing in Midsummer Night’s Dream. But I was able to have a meeting with Paula and was able to catch up with what I miss at the session.

My project will let me be able to do many of the research methods as I will be able to interview people and all maybe do a focus group and also be able to talk with the that are taken part in the workshops and also have a chance to have a lot of observations in the workshops which these will help me get a lot of research for my final piece of work.

Also at this meet with Paula all of us at Chickenshed were able to talk about our projects and how we will doing it and also we were able to give each ideas and also help each what we can all do to help us to get to the part of the work.

Things I need to do before next session

To start to write up my research project

To find at least five to six piece of literature to critically analyse to be a part of my research project

My Topic

I have had lots of different ideas in the past couple of weeks but I think I have come up with a topic idea that I feel happy with.

My topic will be based at Chickenshed as I will be work on a project in the summer team with the children theatre group called ‘Seachange’ so I thought this would be the perfect place to base my project. My project will look at children work in an inclusive dance workshop and performance sitting.

In this project I will be hoping to look at

How children comment throw dance?

How they work with each other?

How they work in a big cast and all so in the small groups

This some of the things that I have been think about so far but I feel there is still more think to be done before I can say this is going to be my final project.

A Midsummer Nights Dream Technical rehearsal and Dress Rehearsal

So it’s been a long week this week but a funny one too. I have been getting ready for my current show that we are doing Chickenshed. So this week we had our technical rehearsal and our dress rehearsal also it’s been a bit of a crazy one but so worth it.

I found that these week’s are really busy but fun as you get to see all the other things people have been work on and plus you get to see what the show will look like. So the next two week’s are going to be busy but fun I cannot wait.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream runs from 12^th March to 27^th March at Chickenshed

Learning Journal Two 3/03/10

Campus session on the 3^rd March – Developing your research design

This session was such a helpful session as I have learnt so much about doing my research and also learnt that different research books can show how to develop my research methods.

Secondary research – secondary research is about different facts that you can get from second source such as the internet, books, and newspapers which you can use these in your research for your project. The main thing to remember about this type of research is that not all of it can sometimes be true so you do have to really look for one’s that look like they have been done in high standee.

Primary research – primary data is all the research you do in your project. These can be interviews, surveys and observation.

Quantitative and Qualitative research

Qualitative – research is all about interpreting evidence through individuals’ experience of it and uses that as part of the research.

Key words:

Emotions

Attitudes

Reactions

Beliefs

Quantitaive– numbercrunching with a perhaps more scientific approach to the research.

Key Words:

Numerical measurements

Percentages

Proportions

Graphs

Chats

Statistics

After looking at all of these different ways of doing my research I found that I can now think of the different ways that I will be get my data for my project and have a better understanding of research methods.