Research+Mentor+-+Samuel+Rodda

=About Me=  Hi all,

My name is Samuel Rodda and I have been given the privilege of being your research project mentor for the remainder of the semester.

So... what do I think you need to know about me??? Well, I lived in the country for most of my life before moving to the city where I completed my SACE at Eynesbury Senior College in the City in 2009. During my time at Eynesbury, I made it through to the final selection process of the [|National Youth Science Forum]in 2008 while also competing in the 2009 National Titration competition and winning a Silver medal. I am currently studying Mechanical Engineering (Renewable and Sustainable Systems) at UniSA where I am a student representative on the AME School Board at UniSA. Also, I am the co-founder and vice chairperson of the newly formed student association for the [|Global Experience]program run by UniSA.

I also enjoy sport (basketball in particular), playing the guitar, listening to music, ice skating or rollerblading and being the best I can be in every situation!

That's pretty much me in a nutshell... =)

My University contact email is rodsp001@students.unisa.edu.au which is a good way to get in contact with me as I check it very regularly. I look forward to working with many of you over the next couple of months.

Cheers, Samuel Hi Samuel,

Sorry we haven't caught up, this week was very busy with the end of Assessment. Monday I was at a conference, Tuesday was a school closure for PD and we only had year 11 Research class this week where I was away at another meeting. So not much has happened or changed since we last met.

When you were in on the 1st of September you left a blue physics 2 folder with some Uni work in ther room. I have it for you if you want to collect it or I can post it out to you. You can contact me on my home email mcwoud@bigpond.net.au to let me know what you would like me to do with it.

Cheers

Caroline Woud 11/09/2010 =Festival of Innovation =



<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">For those of you who are researching a topic in the fields of Informations and Technology, Engineering, Science, Education or the Environment, UniSA is holding the Festival of Innovation this Sunday (29 August) down at the Mawson Lakes Campus. It is a fantastic opportunity to talk to people in the industry and current students at the University doing Research in these specific field. Though the festival runs from 10am to 4pm, you are most welcome to tailor the day to suit your needs and desires by showing up for only a part of the day. I personally with be at the Festival manning the Global Experience stall from 10am - 1pm so feel free to come and introduce yourself. I will also be willing to hang around after 1pm and meet up with any students if they would like a tour of the campus during which you can ask any questions related to your projects or the University.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">If believe you would like to attend, it would be good if you could register you interest via the 'Festival of Innovation' discussion I created which is linked to this page so that I can provide you with any additional resources or information. I've have attached here a link to the days Schedule of Activities. Also, here is a map and some [|Additional Information] regarding the festival.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Remember to contact me for any help with your projects and I hope to see some of you there Sunday!

** Starting Research **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As many of you are starting or have already started the research for you project, I have given you below a couple of tips on how to perform good research relating in particular to resources found on the internet.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//1) Create a Temporary Bibliography in a word document to enter in the URL for ANY website you visit, the date you viewed it and a brief not to yourself about its content.//
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//It is vital you keep track of all your resources so that you don’t waste hours tracking down Internet resources when trying to finish your assignments. The only recourse you shouldn’t record are site you visit that have no relevance too your topic. See example below://
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[]//, viewed 1 September 2010 - Engineers Australia Home page//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//2) Wikipedia is a great place to start your research (teachers, please don’t freak out yet!). Don’t use it directly but look up some of the links in the reference list on a specific page as many of them can be quite useful.//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//3) Obtain (or Brainstorm) a large number of resources and organize them in your Temporary Bibliography into categories e.g. ‘Very Useful’, ‘Useful’, ‘Not Useful’ and ‘Background Reading’ is one way to do this.//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//4) Never spend more then 1 minute looking over a resource for the first time. This is all the time it should take you to determine whether the information is relevant or not as this is all you are trying to determine initially.//

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Note: Difference between **Bibliography** and **Reference List**:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Reference list** – Contains only resource that you have made a direct reference too in your assignment.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Bibliography** – Contains all resources used consulted at any stage of you project including Background Reading.