A8.6: Participation Memo

Aims and Objectives: My goal for this week was to have my work completed by Friday night, but it is now Sunday night and my work is just now being completed. I have found it very hard to complete my work this week because my internet has been done for most of this week. I also have found myself procrastinating this week. I hope to stay on top of my work next week so, that I do not find myself in this same situation again.

Declarative Knowledge: This week I learned more about virtual classrooms and online discussions. In this discussion I learned more about copyright and all that it entails. While discussing with my group I learned more about what can be classified under copyright laws. From the group discussion I learned that it is important to always ask permission before using copyrighted material and if a person is unsure whether or not the material they are using could be considered copyright infringement then this material should not be used. I also learned this week a lot about APA citation style. This study on APA was very helpful in that I found there were many things about APA style that I did not know. For example, I learned that before the name of a database the word “the” should preceed the database. Also, I learned that the word “database” should follow the actual database itself. From this study on APA style I learned that it is important to make reference to an APA manual to make sure the citation style a person is documenting is correct and follows the APA format.

Procedural Knowledge: This week I learned how to correctly cite articles from the internet. I learned how to do this by making reference to the 5th edition of the APA resource manual. I learned that with APA citations a person must list the word the before the database and the word database after the actual name of the database. For example, retrieved from the ERIC database. I also learned how to create my own classroom on the TappedIn website. This will be important for this class in that I can now hold a discussion with my group in my own classroom.

Conditional Knowledge: The information that I learned this week will be helpful to me both as a student and as a future SLP. I can use the information I learned about APA citations with both of these professions in that I will be required to cite many sources as I complete research. It is also important that I take the knowledge I have gained on copyright laws so that I make informed decisions about material I am using that has been created by other people. I feel that the information I have learned this week is information that I will use for a lifetime. I am glad that I took the time to learn more about these topics. I now feel that I have a better understand of both of these topics.