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Hi Maggie,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


 * 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 ||

=//Maggie's Wiki Page ;D//= //Our groups website: LEMON SQUAD//

//**Journal Term 4: Week 3**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week we all pitched in to finish our powerpoint presentation and video. Amy and I filmed student talking about how music effects them and have started making our video. I have also started putting my folder together.

2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? We hope to have everything finished in time and to start our self-evaluations soon. It'll be a lot easier once we've finished our presentation and video.

3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? we are slowly progressing towards the end so I guess thats the positive thing this week.

4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? This week we have had different days when different people have been away so it has been difficult to arrange everything properly.

5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? The lack of team members this week caused a lot of stress when finishing everything off, I think dealing with that was the hardest part.

6. What skills did you learn in this Research? This week I learnt more about how to organise things with so many people, you have to make sure everyone knows what they're doing and that they can do it. 7. Interesting comments? I HOPE WE FINISH

//**Journal Term 4: Week 1+2**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? - In week 2 I wasn't here because of a bushwalking camp in the Flinders Ranges for monday and tuesdays lessons, on friday we didn't have a lesson because of the arts and year 12 assembly. - This week Petra and Amy worked on composing our song, Mel and I worked on writing lyrics, and Stacy and Hannah started our powerpoint presentation for our assessment. We managed to get a lot of the song done, as well as a bridge and chorus for our song lyrics. The presentation is set up and ready for us to add the remaining information.

2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? We hope to finish our song and start recording next week, as well as start recording our video in the process. It'll be a tight schedual to get everything done but if we go as planned, it should be done by week 4.

3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? The best part of our research this week was finally getting some lyircs written down, it took a long time to think of them and fit them to the song. I enjoyed listening to what we've done so far the most this week.

4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? The only limitations that we are experiencing right now are the lack of time and lessons in which we can get our work done. Theres a lot of pressure to get our video and song together before week 4.

5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? The hardest part to do this week was comming up with the lyrics for the song. It was hard to agree on lyrics that didn't sound corny or lame.

6. What skills did you learn in this Research? This week I learnt that time management plays a major part in researching a topic, you have to plan out a schedual and stick to it if you want to get your research done in time. 7. Interesting comments?

//**Journal Term 3: Week 10**// This week we continued to work on producing our song, as well as writing the lyrics to match it. I was sick this week so I was only at mondays lesson. //**Journal Term 3: Week 8+9**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week we had two days off of school so the only lesson we had for week 8 was on friday. For the past five lessons, we decided on a theme for our song; "unity". We then borrowed a practice room in the music centre and Amy and Petra started writing the chords for the piano part. So far we have the intro and first verse's worth of chords.

2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? Our next goal is to create a survey and to start writing the lyrics for our song.

3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? The best part about this week was that we finally started writing our song, it felt good to finally get somewhere in our research project. 4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? Our main limitation this week was our lack of lessons in week 8, because we only had five lessons in two weeks, we couldnt get as much work done.

5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? The hardest part in our reserach this week was trying to come up with a tune that wasnt copywritted already that we could use. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? This week we learnt that if we want to get our research done in time, we'll need to divide all of the work we do. 7. Interesting comments? We only have 5 weeks left + the holidays so we need to HURRY UP and get our song finished so that we can start recording.

//**Journal Term 3: Week 7**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week we split our tasks into pairs and finished our work. Stacey and Hannah did the 5 capabilities, Petra and Josh made the ghannt chart and Mel and me did the research plan and concept map. 2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? Next week we are going to start producing our song and researching what we can do from now on. We'll need to talk to Mrs Woud about where to go from here.

3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? Its good that we managed to finish all of our work that was over due. We've now caught up to everyone else and are about to start our research. 4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? Mrs Woud wasn't there in the double lesson so we couldn't do anything else in the double after our journals and work were complete. 5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? The hardest part of the research this week was trying to complete all of the over due work in time to get started with our main research. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? That persistence can actually pay off. 7. Interesting comments? I'm glad we're finally getting somewhere. //**Journal Term 3: Week 6**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? On friday this week, we decided on a new research project. Our new project is to produce our own song about citizenship. We will then have it performed by local buskers and performers in Adelaide. We will film the performances and then produce a video which combines all of them into one song.Next week we each took on seperate jobs in order to complete our work in time. 2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? In the future i really hope that we can catch up to the other groups ASAP. We need to make our research plan, ghannt chart, 5 capabilities and concept map.

3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? Most of this week we didn't see much progress but now we're all really looking forward to starting this research project. 4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? Unti friday, we were still waiting for confirmation from the primary school so we couldnt do much then. we were then told that we needed a police check which could take up to six weeks to complete. because of that, we gave up and started our 4th project. 5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? There wasn't really anything hard to do this week apart from wait around. But now we have a new goal to work on. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? This week we learnt that to be sucessful in RPR, you need to be persistant and keep moving forward in your work. 7. Interesting comments? This research project is the best one we've thought of so far, i can't wait to start recording.

//**Journal Term 3: Week 5**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week I only had one lesson of research project because I was in Melbourne on monday and on tuesday we had course counselling. On friday we chose our new research project #3; helping the kids at pennington primary school.

2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? Firstly, we hope that we can actually do this reserach project. Next week we will contact the school and get an answer. 3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? The positive thing for this week is that we came up with a new idea for our research project. 4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? The limitation this week were our lack of lessons. We only had one lesson to think of a new idea. 5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? There weren't really any hard parts this week. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? We didn't learn anything new this week. 7. Interesting comments? I really hope this next research project works out =.=

//**Journal Term 3: Week 4**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week Amy and Mel went to the hospital to ask about our research project. They were supposed to get information about how we could volunteer but they were told that we couldn't. Once again, we are now looking for a new project to research. 2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? In the future we hope to find a new project to research as soon as possible. We need to have another group meeting and figure out what we're going to do next. 3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? This week there have been no positive successes =.= 4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? Just after we re-did our worksheets for RPR, we find out we have to start again, again. 5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? There was nothing hard this week. We spent a lot of time waiting for the results from the hospital. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? This week we learnt that we need to do most of our work outside class time in order to catch up to everyone else. 7. Interesting comments? I'm really starting to think that we should try something that isn't volunteering. =.=

//**Journal Term 3: Week 3**// 1. What have you achieved in your learning? This week we worked on making our research plan. We made our hypothesis and came up with our 5 reserach questions as a group. we then began to expand on our ideas for our research. However, Ms McInnes told us that we can't fundraise for the hospital due to student council reasons. We are now re-starting to make our research plan. 2. What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? In the future I hope to be able to entertain the kids at the hospital with everyone else by putting on shows etc. first we need to remake our concept map and re-create our 5 research questions. We will then need to contact the hospital and figure out what we can do from there. 3. Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? So far, I enjoyed planning our future events but now we have to start again and plan something new. Hopefully our research wont be delayed by this setback.

4. Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? Our only problem was being told to do something different, we all worked really hard to come up with our previous research project and now we have to start again. It's really frustrating to be told this after 4 weeks of research. 5. What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? The hardest part right now is catching up to everyone else since we have to start again. Now we have to work a lot more in order to reach the stage we're supposed to be at. 6. What skills did you learn in this Research? I think the only thing that I learnt this week is that we have to keep moving ahead with our research, even if there are setbacks like the one this week.

7. Interesting comments? I still wish we could try to fundraise some money but I know its not gonna happen ;(

Journal Term 2: Week 10

Today in the Research Project we learnt 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** Im looking forward to starting my research project but I don’t know what Im going to do yet. I don’t really want to do all the thinking hat worksheets because we’ve already done the same thing in PLP hundreds of times. A lot of people who have already done research project have said that it is really boring and easy but I hope that I can find something interesting to research. We also learnt about the six steps of Research Based Learning, they are; Define > Locate > Select > Organise > Present >Evaluate

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**//Journal Term 2: Week 11//** This week we learnt how to reference our information by using the Harvard referencing system. We looked at how to record the different types of resources we use, as well as what order to write them in. We filled out worksheets that helped us understand how to reference different sources and wrote down examples for each type of resource. We have to list the fo0llowing three things for each source of information: Author Title Date After taking all those notes, I have a lot more confidence in being able to reference my information sources correctly. Now, if Im not sure how to reference, I can look back on my notes. I can also keep them for future reference.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We also took a multiple intelligence test online to see what types of intelligence were our strong points. here is my test results:



Today we made flow charts based on what we currently know about our topic. Our group chose to fundraise for the women’s and children’s hospital. We’ve started looking for ideas on how to fundraise as well as what we currently know about the hospital. Im really looking forward to raising money for this hospital because it’s for a good cause and I think it’s going to be really fun to hold the fundraising events that we’ve thought of so far. In our group there are six members; Mel, Amy, Josh, Stacey, Hannah and me. We’re all looking forward to starting this research project and fundraising money for the women’s and children’s hospital.
 * //Journal Term 3: Week 1//**

This week we came together as a group and created our groups' wiki page and concept map. Our team is currently named "Team Alpha Super Cool Dynamite Wolf Squadron" but we will proberbly change it to something shorter later on. Also this week, Petra joined our group, as she just transferred into our class.
 * //Journal Term 3: Week 2//**

Our concept map contains our current knowledge on what we have to research and do to raise money for the Women's and Children's hospital. This map has our basic knowledge and goals for the time being, we will later add more goals and information as we research our topic during the term.

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of /30 on your wiki page. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each week highlight on the rubric where you think your journal grade is at starting from week 3, term 3. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">/30 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Journal questions || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wiki page design || <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -10000px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px;">
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 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grade || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">26 - 30 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wiki journal 7 questions finished each week to a high degree || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">complete and attractive and creative design ||
 * <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21- 25 || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 - 6 questions completed to a high degree || <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 ||