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 gfdgdgAmy Patyi's Wiki Space, Woooo! This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of 24/30 on your wiki page. You still need to complete the last 2 journal entries. This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete. Research Plan 9.5/10 very exciting. B+ well done Amy :) Good luck with your research! Caroline Woud 12/09/2010


 * 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 ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 - 20 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3- 4 questions completed to a satisfactory standard || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">complete with some design ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9 - 15 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2-3 questions commenced || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 learnt about a metaphore that describes Research Project.
 * Journal 1 22.06.10**

<span style="color: #ff007b; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 220%;"> Research project is like a science experiment. You have a hypothesis to investigate, a method to conduct your research, research results documented and conclusion and evaluation.

In this class, i want to be able to fundraise for some kind of charity. I think i will be in a group with Mel and Josh. I also learnt the 6 steps to resourced based learning
 * Define Locate Select Organise Present Evaluate**

This week we did a test to determine which intelligences we are strongest in. Here are my results.
 * Journal 2 Multiple Intelligences, that probably means more than one.**

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After taking the test and looking at my results, its obvious that I have mostly musical, Linguistic and Interpersonal intelligences. I think the test was fairly accurate, but i thought i was more spacatialy aware than the test shows.

This week we have been looking at the Harvard Referencing System. It's a way to write your bibliography and keep track of who and where you got your information from.
 * Journal 3 The Harvard Referencing System**

As an example, the way to reference a book would be **Author Title Date Publisher Place** I think this will come in handy in this lesson because we will have to research all kinds of things, depending on what I decide to focus on.

In my group the members are **Mel, Josh, Maggie, Hannah, Stacey** and a new member in our class **Petra**. After discussing what out group should research for a while, we finally decided on raising money for a charity.
 * Journal 4 My Group**

Initially we found a childrens cancer group, but they were located in Queensland so we couldn't raise money as easily. We then decided on raising money for the Womens and Childrens hospital.

The main thing we are thinking of doing to raise money is organising a Family Day in a park or a hall and inviting patients, families, and the public. To get money for the event we were thinking of having small things such as barbeques at school or jellybean counting.
 * Here is a mind map to show roughly what we came up with**



Today, Petra, Mel, Josh and myself went to visit the womens and childrens hospital to see if we could do some fundraising for the childrens ward. Just before we left, Ms McInnes came into our class to tell us that there will be no more fundraising allowed since the school can only do a limited ammount every year. That wiped out **plan A) our fundraising idea**. That didn't stop us though, we were still keen on doing work at the hospital so we turned to **plan B) volunteering**. Even though no money would be raised we would still be helping others. It was a long journey to town since we didn't really know what bus to catch but we eventually made it there. We walked in and asked about volunteereing and got some more information about what would be required and it sounded like the perfect thing for us to do for our research project. Then we found out you have to over been 18.
 * Journal 5 OH DEAR! MASSIVE SET BACK! ARGGHHH!**
 * Plan C) ?**
 * Back to square one, WHAT WILL WE DO FOR RESEARCH PROJECT?**

Because we still want to work with kids, we have decided to see if we can volunteer with Pennington Kindey. Mel and I went to visit the kindey today to see if it would be possible and they seemed to be interested. We will have to have a police check to make sure we are really school students and not criminals and we will have to think of lots of different activities and games to do with the children. The coordinator of the kindey is going to call me before the end of the week to let us know if it is all ok. I have a good feeling about it!
 * Journal 6 Alas! We're getting somewhere!**

Pennington Kindey called us back and the bad news was, the police check would take too long to complete so we had to change what we were going to do for research project again. This brought us to plan D) How music makes an impact on people. It is a different topic to what we originally wanted but hey, we will all enjoy doing it. Because half of us are music students we can write the music and the other half can help with the lyrics to create a song and video about how music makes an impact. FINALLY, LETS GET TO IT WOO!
 * Journal 7 Over to plan D, the final plan!**

Today we started writing down some chords and a melody to use for our song. We also listed different instruments we could use and who we could get to play them. We had a cool idea of getting some buskers from Adelaide that we know to help us record and play the music too. All we need to do now is get some lyrics to use!
 * Journal 8 Writing the Music**

If you go on facebook, you will find a survey that you can fill out about how music makes an impact on you! We already have some responses but we still need more!
 * Journal 9 LOL SURVEY LIKE OMG WTF ROLF!**

Well, noone really knows. I googled it. Anyway,this week Petra and I have combined the powers of our minds to come up with our final piece of piano music. It is simple, but a good piece of background music. We have to start thinking about recording it, before we forget it! Mel and maggie have been workign on some lyrics and the rest of the group have been starting to plan our oral presentation!
 * Journal 10 Why is a Lemon Yellow?**

Josh Paulson (Petras lover) has kindly let us borrow his mac book to record our piano section. It took a while, but it sounds pretty good. We also got together and analysed the results to our survey. Big thanks to everyone that helped us out by completing it properly! It will really help us with our presentation. We also started working on our final presentation. Maggie and myself are on the Making of the Movie committee and the rest of the group are on the Oral presentation committee.
 * Journal 11 My Lucky Number**

Its been a challenging 4 months (LOL), but our work is all about to pay off! The oral is just about done, people know what they're doing and Maggie and I have almost finished filming the video. The camera keeps running out of batteries which is rather annoying, but we are pushing through it. Friday we are presenting, I think we will be ready. I hope we will be ready.
 * Journal 12 The End is Near**

Today we watched the first few groups present, they were pretty good. At the moment, Magetha and I are trying to edit the video, but all the movies need reformatting. Another set back?! Lemon Squad have really bad luck I swear. We should have called ourselves Rabbit Foot Squad or Leprachaun Squad, maybe then we would have gotten somewhere faster. Oh well. Friday's presentation should be good!
 * Journal 13 Present Time!!!**