Emirry's+Journal

This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of 20/30 on your wiki page. You still need one more journal entry. This grade will go up or down each week depending on how much of your journal you complete.
 * Research Project Journal ﻿ **

Research plan was not uploaded to your wiki with a ghantt chart, Research plan 9.5/10. Term 3 grade B.

Good luck with your research.

Caroline Woud 12/09/2010.

We have finished putting our presentation together, and we have got all our evidence into one folder. Tomorrow we will be presenting our work to the classroom, and we will be listening to other groups and their presentations.
 * 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 || 5 - 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 ||
 * WEEK 4 - TERM 2**

Today on the 2/11/10, we did our presentation that went on for 5 minutes and 10 seconds, which was the perfect timing. I think that we did a good job, and we spoke pretty clearly. Ms. Woud gave us a grade of 17.5/20, and now we are getting our evidence folder together to hand up by Friday.

This week we just started putting our information together. Ly, Trinh and I decided to make a Powerpoint presentation to present our work on. We have found some useful pictures for it, and put them on the title page. We are kind of behind as this work was due last week but were able to catch up quite quickly. The presentation is almost finished, so we will be ready to present our work next week. Last Friday morning, we all met up in town. Trinh and I arrived at 8:30, but Ly came a little later, so we got to the shelter late, and were only able to have a little tour and then we interviewed the guy that gave us the tour. Unfortunately, we do not remember his name. He showed us three bedrooms of the place and the kitchen where the homeless eat in the mornings and for dinner.
 * WEEK 3 - TERM 2**
 * WEEK 2 - TERM 2**

After he gave us a small tour, we went into the interview room and we asked him all our interview questions. We got a lot of information and he was a big help.

We got a lot of information from the interview, and we learnt a lot about homeless people. We learnt about all the places that they are able to go to, what they do in their spare time, and where they sleep. It was very useful information and we put it all into our presentation. After mailing Tim Taylor last term, he replied to Ms. Woud. He thought that, because all of us have an Asian/Vietnamese background, that it would be easier to work with the Vietnamese Community so that we would be able to communicate better. The Vietnamese Community do not take homeless people, so we decided that we will to try and get into volunteering for St. Vincent De Pauls. We will have to try and fit the volunteering into sometime this week, as our report will be due next week. We may have to take a day off of school.
 * WEEK 1 - TERM 2**

I called up St Vincent De Pauls to ask about volunteering and it turned out that we needed to have police checks and everything, so we weren't able to do that. Ms. Woud spoke to Tim Taylor again, and what we were able to do was have a tour of the Vinnies Centre.

My Research teacher Ms Woud sent an email to Tim Taylor who works at Vincent De Pauls, to contact him about Ly, Trinh and I working with him and the homeless. Ly, Trinh and I will need to make time in the holidays to interview the people working with the homeless, as this is the last week before the two week holiday break. We now have to think of some interview questions, so we will be prepared when we attend the homeless shelter.
 * WEEK 10**

I was absent this week therefore I could not do any work.
 * WEEK 9**

No progress was made this week as we only had one lesson of Research Project, because we had two days off for a Pupil Free Day and a Show Day. On both of those days were the days we had the lesson. Ly Trinh and I are thinking of visiting a home shelter where the homeless people stay. The places we are thinking of is 'Meals on Wheels' which is located on Greenhill road or St Vincent De Paul which is located in the city on Franklin Street.
 * WEEK 8**
 * WEEK 7**

I have looked at the website for both charaties and have done some research about volunteering for 'Meals on Wheels'. There are about 100 branches of Meals on Wheels throughout South Australia, who cook and deliver meals for over 5,000 clients each weekday at lunchtime. Volunteers serve as cooks, kitchen helpers, delivers and drivers. They are always looking for more volunteers for their company. New volunteers replace the ones who retire through old age, illness or other reasons. They have a volunteering register form which I have looked at am thinking about volunteering for.

I also done some reseatch on St Vincent De Paul volunteering. There are a wide variety of volunteering opportunities with St Vincent De Paul. From working in a Vinnies store or depot to tutoring refugee families or even taking disadvantaged children out on outings and also taking out an elderly or disabled person in the neighbourhood. The St Vincent de Paul Society is based on Christian principles of acceptance, mercy, justice and compassion. It is one of the largest volunteer organizations around the world, providing personal, social and material assistance to families, the homeless, migrants and refugees and the wider community.

One person can make a big difference on a persons life and I think by volunteering, me and my group can do that. We have a chance to give something back to the community, by using our skills and give the people new experiences. By volunteering we can also gain more skills, and experience more things for ourselves also.
 * WEEK SIX**

This week I learnt about the five Capabilities. The five capabilities are: - Capabilities for Communication - Capabilities for Citizenchip - Capabilities for Personal Development - Capabilities for work - Capabilities for Learning
 * WEEK FIVE**

I think that if we use these five capabilities it will help us get through our research project and will help us to learn heaps about it and pass the suject.

We have created our hypothesis. This week I learnt the definition of that. I learnt that a hypothesis is a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument. Our hypothesis is: "People who gamble are likely to become bankrupt and homeless".
 * WEEK FOUR**

We think that people who gamble are likely to become bankrupt and homeless because when they get into it, there's no stopping. There are people who gamble everything they have, and they end up losing it all. They lose their houses, their posession and worst of all their relationships and families. All of that trouble over an obsession with money. Some people realize this but they don't know how to stop. There are ways to help people who gamble and ways to prevent them from becoming homeless. There are rehab places to prevent it.

Trinh and I have come up with our research plan and thought of a few questions to guide us through on what we need to find out. To find out the answer to our questions we will need to do some reasearch through the internet and we are going to ask the homeless people who are offering to help and other people around the homeless.

I am working in a group with Trinh and Ly. We decided our topic would be about homeless people and Trinh and I created a concept map on ideas and information about the homeless. Our idea is to help with volunteering at a shelter or a kitchen place that feeds the homeless.
 * 30/7/10 - WEEK THREE**

I think that it would be fun working with the homeless people. I think it would be a good way to volunteer for the community. I think working for the homless would be a good opportunity to help with my communicationi skills and it will make me and my group feel good about ourselves knowing that we are helping out people in need.

Our group took a while to decided on what our topic was gonig to be because we chose a different topic but it was too difficult to work on. Because of that we became kind of behind in our work but we are catching up.
 * 25/6/10 - WEEK TWO**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">Today I took a Multiple Intelligence Test, and these were my results: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">My highest result was people smart. The definition of People Smart is: You may be people smart. You will like to mix with other people and you will belong to lots of clubs. You are good at sharing. This is sometimes called Interpersonal smart. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">**22nd June 2010 - WEEK ONE** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">Today in the Research Project we learned about a metaphor to describe the Research Project. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">The research project is like a Science experiment. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">You have a **Hypoothesis** to investigate. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">A **method** to conduct your research. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">Research **results** documented, and a **conclusion** and **Evaluation.** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">I think that Research Project will be a new fun subject. I have seen what others have created and it seems like fun. Throughout this subject I would like to gain new skills and improve on my research skills. I believe that this will be a new, good experience. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">Today I read through the Big 6 Skills of researching. The 6 big steps are: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif';">
 * Definition Information Seeking Location and Access**


 * Use of information Putting it altogether Evaluate**

<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="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 ||