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__ Ly's Wikipage/RBL/Journals __ __** Week4 Term4; **__ This week we have finally finished everything and worked on our conclusion for our presentation. In our double lesson today, Tuesday 2 November we are going to present our project. We have gathered and printed out all our evidence of work and put it in a folder.

I was away on Monday due to issues but I am here today which is Tuesday, double lesson. Our teacher had asked us for our draft but we do not have it with us today therefore we are sending it to her tonight asap. I think that our group needs to be more organised but apart from that it's not going too bad. We've been working hard and trying to be up to date with everything.
 * __ Week3 Term4; __**

We are now planning to make times this week to practise our oral presentation so we don't leave it to the last minute.

__** Week2 Term4; **__

This week our draft is due on Friday. My group has completed pretty much most of the work just a few little adjustments and additions to do and it'll be ready to hand up on Friday.

Today is Friday and we have a relief teacher despite that our draft is due but one of our members was away therefore we could not hand up our draft. We did try to contact her but we didn't reach her so we thought of posting it up the next day which is the weekends so our teacher could read it. Unfortunately we couldn't make contact with our member who had the draft.

__** Week1 Term4; **__

So we are back from 2weeks break. We are now working on our draft which is due in week2 because our presentation will be held in week4. My group has allocated different jobs for each member and we are working on it right now to get it complete.

__**Week10 Term3;**__ This week we are working on collecting evidence of research and gathered information for our research topic for the future moderation. We're also working on making surveys and organising interviews to interview people about our topic. We have not yet thought of what we're going to survery and interview but that's one thing we'll be working on this week and getting it completed.

Here are some information i searched up on "Meals on Wheels", which is the place we plan on going to, to do some volunteering. "Meals on Wheels" provide nutritious meals for more than 5000 South Australians everyday. So after talking to Mrs.Woud our group had to change our volunteering place to St.Vincents De Pauls because Meals on Wheels is a place more of a food provider for faint elders.

This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of 22/30 on your wiki page. This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete. Each week highlight on the rubric where you think your journal grade is at starting from week 3, term 3.


 * Grade ||  || Mark/30 ||   || Journal questions ||   || Wiki page design ||


 * B ||  || 22/30 ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Hi Ly,

Research Plan 9.5/10 Journal 22/30

Your research plan looks very thorough, but you need to upload it all to your journal and keep regular entries each week.

Goodluck in your Research,

Caroline Woud 15/09/2010

__**Week9 Term3;**__ This week my group and I are up to date with our work. Therefore we are just waiting for our teacher to contact the place and give us further information. Despite being all up to date I've started to do some research in my leisure time at home i.e the percentage of the common causes for people becoming homeless etc... I will be discussing and sharing this with my group members this week and the following week.

Oh and here is our Research Plan completed several weeks ago and handed up but I just uploaded onto my page today.

__**Week8 Term3;**__ This week we haven't had much to do because we had a day off for the Royal Adelaide Show and Pupil Free Day beginning of the week therefore it was a short week and only one lesson of Research Project. During that lesson my group and I just discussed about the place we were going to go for volunteer assistance for homeless people but we are currently waiting for our teacher to contact the place because there may be pedos and dangerous people etc...



__**Week7 Term3;**__ All had been handed up to the teacher completed and now my group members Trinh, Emily and myself are planning to go volunteering to assist help-seekers at local caring homes. We have not decided an exact location but have some ideas of where we'd like to visit so hopefully by end of this week or the following week it will be done.

__**Week6 Term3;**__ This week we are working together on our gant chart. We had to decide and equally divide tasks to be a fare group. Here is our gant chart we've completed.

__**Week5 Term3;**__ Here are our focus questions which we worked on with the teacher. These questions will now guide us in doing our research for our topic.

**__Week4 Term3;__** This week we realised we were behind due to each other's absence so we got ourself together and caught up with the rest of the class. This is our concept map that we worked together during classtime and completed.



**__Week3 Term3;__** This week my group and I are working on our focus questions and thinking of a suitable hypothesis for our research topic "homeless people". The hypothesis which we came up together as a group with the help of teachers is "people who gamble, have a higher chance of becoming bankrupted and homeless."

**﻿__Week10 Term2;__** The first couple of lessons I've had a good introduction and brief knowledge from our teacher about The Research Project, therefore I know what I'm planning and going to do.

By the end of this week we learnt a metaphor that describes the Research Project.


 * //The research project is like a science experiment.//**
 * //A method to conduct your research//**
 * //Research results documented//**
 * //A conclusion and evaluation//**

The class is gradually moving forward to the actual task and assessments, information sheets are given to everyone for guidance. Further on I got taught the RBL //Research Based Learning// and here are my own definitions.
 * RBL (Research Based Learning)**

1.**Define**; This is the key importance in your learning, the understanding of your research topic is the start guide to succeeding a good result. Understanding what the topic is may help you to know what steps to take, the things to do and know what to research. 2.**Locate**; Is finding and researching, using various resources to search wanted and needed information. 3.**Select**; Is choosing. Selecting relevant, appropiate and useful information for your topic. 4.**Organise**; Planning and getting everything together. Orgasnise what is needed for the final presentation. Gather equipment and final production. 5.**Present**; Time to show your classmates and teacher your overall work and research. 6.**Evaluate**; Conclusion of your overall work

__**Week11 Term2;**__ This week we were given a referencing task to start and complete over the upcoming 2weeks holidays. This reference task was called The Harvard referencing system.

**__Week1 Term3;__** This week I got to do a quiz which helps me result my best learning styles. I am an interpersonal person, people smart, meaning I'm capable of socializing and easy to get along with. My second prioriety style is Intrapersonal, myself smart, meaning I can be independent and make my own decisions. My third prioriety is kinaesthetic, body smart, implying that I'm active and I like sports.
 * **Interpersonal - People Smart** ||  ||
 * You may be people smart. You will like to mix with other people and you will belong to lots of clubs. You like team games and are good at sharing. This is sometimes called being Interpersonal smart. ||

__**Week2 Term3;**__ I've set myself into a group with similar interests. We planned to research on Illuminati which is a small organisation part of a really big organisation in America which are planning to take over the world, silly as it sounds but there are documentaries etc... But as the days went past we found it a bit hard to do further research on this topic because there is valid information on the net and not many people know of this organisation. Therefore we chose another topic that we were interested in and are settled with this topic now which is "homeless people".



This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of /30 on your wiki page. This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete. Each week highlight on the rubric where you think your journal grade is at starting from week 3, term 3.