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Stacey Greaves  WIKI SPACE PAGE!!! Research Project journal week 2 term 4

Amy, Petra and Mel have started recording the backing track, and they told us they would be recording the vocals today too.Our presentation feels like its actually coming together finally!!!! We have most of the slides completed already and we just need to keep adding things to it, so that we have a nice polished presentation!!

I believe that we will have a good end product and that we will receive a decent grade for our efforts. This week we have brought all of our bibliographical details, collating all of the sites we have visited individually. Also this week we have written down on the presentation what esch of us is going to say.

Mel took the initaitive of allocating slides for each of us to focus on. I got slides 2,3 and 7. I was to speak about the overall focus questions, focus question 1, sand also the the 5 capabilities that we have incorporated into our research. Each of the people in our group received two to three slides, that they were responsible for.

I beleive that the biggest frustration of our group's this week was the time restriction. After all of the setbacks and delays, we have had very little time to bring all of the information togther.

Research project journal Week 1 term 4

This week Hannah and I started working on the slide show with which we are presenting in our end product. This goes towards our grade so it is important that it is finished and completed well, and the other members of our group are making it very difficult for us as they haven't really helped us with it at all. They have been focussing on the practical component whilst Hannah and myself work on the theory part of it.

Although it feels as though we (hannah and i) havent contributed much, our group has made major progress. I have been having much difficulty with the slide show as there are things that need the other member's contribution as we dont have all the information to do it on our own.

In light of recent events it has given me an opportunity to develop my skills (initiative, leadership, creativity, research skills, ICT skills). I am really looking forward to hearing and seeing the end product. Hannah and I have heard the basic tune of our song and I think it sounds really good. I am happy to be working with such talented students like Petra, Amy and Mel, but I would like to able to contribute more.

Research Project Journal Week 11:

This week we have a little more structure and we also have a list of what we still need to complete. Amy, Petra and Josh worked onthe song, and Hannah and I worked on creating/ drafting the report of our research. To help guide us; we used a scaffold that Ms. Woud created, as a template to write the plan.

Hannah and I had much difficulty in writing it up, as the majority of our group left us to do most of the theory work, while they got to work on the practical component of our research. It was hard for us to complete it as we haven't been included in most of the actual research.

Hi Stacey,

This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of 28/30 on your wiki page. This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete. Research Plan 9.5/10. Term 3 Grade A. Well done! Goodluck with your research. Caroline Woud 12/10/2010

Research Project Journal Week 10
 * Grade || Mark /30 || Journal questions || Wiki page design ||
 * A || 26 - 30 || Wiki journal 7 questions finished each week to a high degree || complete and attractive and creative design ||
 * B || 21- 25 || 5 - 6 questions completed to a high degree || complete and interesting design ||
 * C || 15 - 20 || 3- 4 questions completed to a satisfactory standard || complete with some design ||
 * D || 9 - 15 || 2-3 questions commenced || incomplete no design ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">E || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">0 - 8 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">0 -1 questions attempted || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">not attempted to blank page ||

This week we've started focussing on writing the lyrics and music for our song. Petra and Amy both began making the basic melody by experimenting with some random chords. Mel and Maggie both worked on writing the lyrics. One day after we uploaded the survey and made it as a group on 'Facebook' we got a number of posts but unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to view the page, so I have not seen the posts :((

Research Project Journal Week 9

This week I was away for almost the entire week. We spent one one double lesson creating a list of the people that we know have musical talent. Mel, Petra and Amy have the most connections, so they wrote down who we should use for the template track version for the buskers to preview.

Our group ventured to the music centre, as to use the facilities (piano). That was when we finally got down to business and started preparing the song. I thought that this lesson had been very productive, and that we all felt really good after having that much progress in one lesson. Hannah and I used the time we had during that double lesson to create a survey that would then be uploaded to 'Facebook' as a group page.

Research Project journal week 8 The link to the LEMON SQUAD page shows you what our group is and has been doing! LEMON SQUAD  This week I missed out on Monday’s lesson, so I wa﻿s completely unaware of what we were meant to be doing! Not all of my group were in class on Tuesday’s lesson, which made it harder to catch up on what I had missed. Having to change our plan once again made it that much more difficult to proceed with our research. However, two of the members of the group had gone to the primary school we had intended to be involved with, those students being Amy and Mel; returned during the first lesson with information about the primary school Pennington Kindergarden. I was away on the lesson we had on Friday, and the group had once again changed. I was informed of the change that we were going to compose our own song about peace, and have a large number of buskers perform the song. I am very positive with this idea and I think its going to succeed! If it doesn't, I don't know what else we could possibly do! We've made progress nad nothing has stopped us yet. We have made the research plan, the GANTT chart, the concept map and completed the activity for the 5 capabilities! I am very happy with what we have achieved and I am hoping the success will continue throughout the coming weeks! This is the capablities table which hannah and I edited as to correrspond with our research. The amount of times we have modified our ideas is ridiculous! Im glad we've found something that isn't too hard to accomplish! We haven't had any real negative points this week, which I am quite thankful for! Research project Journal week 7 This week we have been set back once again, and now we have to change our our research plan, focus questions, and our whole idea!! :( As of yet we havent had much progress, and ﻿I have not much success in development of some of my skills. :(

Our main focus has been changed to visitng a local kindergarden and socialising with the younger generation our community. Some of our group took the initiastive to find out what time times the kindergarden is open. We came up with thew idea of each week having a different theme, that we could have activities for. Example: This link is what maggie and I have edited. It shows the plan we have and what areas we need to take into consideration. I think that the fact that we have had all these setbacks has given us a chance to develop our skills in concept maps and making plans.
 * music week
 * theatre week
 * games week
 * dance week
 * arts and crafts

Research Project journal week 6 This week our group was constructing our reaseasrch plan with our guiding questions. We also started to focus on the aspect of the SACE 5 capabilities. Our group is mainly looking at the capabilities of citizenship, and personal development. We as a group found it easy to identify which capabilities we would like to target. I thought this week we have had some quite productive lessons as we now have had some members of our group, including Amy, Mel, Petra, and Josh; call up and go to the hospital that we are meant to be volunteering at. It was difficult have much progress when on friday, half of our group was absent. I believe that our research plan was successful because of the leadership Mel has provided.

The research process seemed very hard to me, and it felt as though some of our group; me being one of them,hadn't really been conntributing as there hadn't been any opportunties for us to include ourselves. :(( The link below is a basic outline of what we intend to do and also what methods we are taking to achieve those intended activities:  This following link below illustrates the capabilities table that I have altered to suit the research our group is conducting: Research Project journal wk 5

This week our group was informed that our fundraising idea was very considerate however it would not be suitable to do as Student Voice has control of the majority of the fundraising projects here at our school. :((((( This upset us as it meant that we would have to change our main goal, from fundraising for the hospital to just volunteering at the hopsital.

This week my group struggled to come up with an altered research plan, as we were forced to change it. :((((( However it was interesting for our group to have the opportunity to find new ideas for our research! It was quite difficult but we managed to pull our thoughts together so that we had a clear direction and knew exactly what we were going to do. The setback of having to change our idea helped me in developing new skills in problem solving.



I believe the hardest part for me this week was trying to understand what we had to change and what aspects we could keep .

Research Project Journal week 1

Today in the Research Project we learned about a metaphor to describe the Research project. The Research Project is like a Science Experiment. You have a Hypothesis to investigate. A method to conduct your research Research results documented and a conclusion and evaluation



I am very keen on getting stuck into this subject as this form of learning is something that is rarely done. It is giving us an opportunity to be more independent (to learn independently).

Things that I have achieved already include having knowledge that I can be self-reliant however if I need some assistance I have the option of consulting a teacher. So far in this subject we have begun writing our journals and we have only just started discovering what this subject is all about.

Also in this lesson we visited the RBL site (Research Based Learning) and read through the six steps to researching. These include define, locate, select, organise, present and evaluate. Once performing these six steps I will be successful in my researching. I want to achieve a number of things this semester; some of which include learn to research and evaluate information independently, learn to access information from a number of different resources.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This diagram of results show which are my strongest and weakest capabilities. My diagram indicates my strongest intelligence was "Interpersonal - People Smart". This is also an indication of which way I learn best, which is by communication.

Research Project Journal Week 2 This week in Research Project, we focussed on creating our Wiki Space page, for others to view the work that we have been doing. We decided as a class group that our page name would be Reppin’ Wowdawg WHS.

At first I was confused about how the application was to be used and I am still a little unsure about the specific reasons for the page. After using the application for a while I hope to have full knowledge of what the site offers and how to use it.

When I first got the invitation to become a member on Wikispace, I was unable to access my email which delayed me in starting my own page. When I eventually did have access to my email and created the page, I was completely unfamiliar with how to use it. I found it quite interesting to realise I was able to read and have access to other member’s pages. It gives the class the opportunity to see how their peers are progressing and see what areas others are researching.

Research Project Journal Week 3

This week we were focussing on the Harvard Referencing System, and the particular requirements of referencing your sources. We were given a booklet with which we had to complete. The booklet consisted of sources that we had to locate, then record as examples of different types of sources.

At first I had some trouble understanding exactly what the task was that we had to complete. However after it being explained in detail I could complete it with ease. :) We learned that it is very important to reference all the information that we use and if not done it can be classified as plagiarism and is punishable. When referencing, it is important to remember what to include. Author, title and date are three of the basics which are required as part of referencing. This week I want to achieve

A success of this week for me was I had completed the booklet and now had quite a clear understanding of what to include for which sources.

Journal Entry Week 4

This week our group focussed on creating our concept map and developing ideas for what we could be researching. We decided that for the fundraising ideas it would be better if we held a family fun day! Mainly for kids. I thought the best idea that was brought up was a jumping castle for the children. Our group settled on having this event conducted on either the St. Clair oval and/ or inside St. Clair.

This week out team has begun to design the concept map which we will be referring to within our research.Much of what we have done already has been the ideas of Mel, Amy, and Petra! I feel as though I havent done alot of work as they have. However when the fundraising and such begins, I believe that I will have more involvement.

So far I think that our group has progressed alot in these past few weeks as we now have some sort of direction we are leaning toward. THe following concept map was created as basis for our resesrch and what we would need to be focussing on.

This concept map was created mainly by Mel Williams. I think that we have been successful in making a good plan and structure. One negative outcome that I believe set me back a bit was trying to learn how to upload photos/ pictures to my wiki page!! After it being explained to me, I attempted to upload the concept map to my page and I was successful in doing so!

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Hi Stacey,

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Before your group starts any activity to fundraise, we need to do a risk Assessment first for OHS&W. I will explain this in our next lesson.

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Your ideas sound great and creative, we just need to ensure all safety precautions are taken for the activities.

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Cheers, keep up the good work!

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ms Woud