Trinhhh

Hi Trinh,

This week I will be giving you an assessment grade for your journal out of 23/30 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 needs to be uploaded to you wiki journal.

Term 3 grade B. 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 ||
 * C || 15 - 20 || 3- 4 questions completed to a satisfactory standard || 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 - 14 || <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 ||

Research Plan:

For this week we are doing our powerpoint on the homeless for our oral presentation next week. We are quite behind because this was suppose to be due last week, but we are getting there.
 * Journal 15: Week 3.Term 4**

Emily, Ly and myself went to the Vincentre last week on Friday to have a tour in the place and also interview one of the workers there. The homeless shelter is pretty far away so we had to wake up earlhy and catch a bus to town before 9:00am. But sadly we didn't arrive in time and was an hour late because we got lost on the way there, so we arrived there are 10 something instead of our booked time with the tour guide. We spent half an hour at the Vincentre for homeless shelter, the first 15 minutes was a tour around the place and the other 15 minutes was spent interviewing the worker that gave us a tour. After the interview we gathered some information that he had given us to put in our powerpiont.
 * Journal 14: Week 2, Term 4**

What I have learnt during our trip to the homeless shelter is that ther are many agencies in the community that helps and support the people that are homeless. And I also had learnt is that not only people become homeless because they are not employed and have a gambling issue. There are many other reasons such as; relationship breakdown, mental illness where no one can support them and also addcitive behaviour.

On friday this week we finally went to a homeless shelter to interview and have a tour of the place. We didn't get to go to St Vincent De Paul homeless shelter but we went to the Vincentre instead, which is a good opportunity to see what the community is doing to help the homeless people.
 * Journal 13 b: Week 1 Term 4**

This week we have finally decided where to volunteer which was St Vincent De Paul. In the last week of school Ms Woud contacted the man that worked there to ask if we can volunteer there, but he said that he was unable to help us and told us to go to the Vietnamese Community. Which was not related to our topic, so then we decided to contact the St Vincent De Paul place to ask the instead and now we are waiting for a reply.
 * Journal 13: Week 1, Term 4**


 * Journal 12: Week 10, Term 3**

In this lesson Ly and my self has started to put together about where we are going to get our sources from, We have come to a conclusion on doing a survey and doing an interview someone that either working there or is a homelss person while we were volunteering at the St Vincent De Paul shelter. Ms Woud has helped us contact Tim Taylor who works at the shelter about us volunteering at the shekter during the school holidays. She sent an email to him about what we are going to do there.

14th September 2010
 * Journal 11: Week 9, Term 3**

For this week we had discuss where we are going to get our sources from, we have to atleast have two primary sources in our research project. In this lesson I went on the INFO POLL where they show how to put together a proper survey. By reading though the website it had help me figure out how to put together a proper survey.

10th September 2010
 * Journal 10: Week 8, Term 3**

This nothing much was done because we had 2 student free days, which meant most of the lessons for research project was cut. We are still planning to go volunteer at the St Vincent De Paul shelter to feed the homeless people and interview the staff there. But we still need to discuss with Ms Woud about call the people for permission to help them at the St Vincent De Paul shelter.

30th August 2010
 * Journal 9: Week 7, Term 3**

This week in research project most of the work that we are doing is due. So Emily and I finished doing the Research Plan, Ghannt Chart, Capabillities Chart, Concept Map and handed it in to Ms Woud.

25th August 2010
 * Journal 8: Week 6, Term 3**

In this week I have started doing my ghant chart, in each column i putted either my name, Emily's name or ly's on what we are responsible for doing in the coming weeks of conducting the research. I am also going dicusss with Ly and Emily on where we should go to volunteer, I am thinking of going to the Meals on Wheels or the St De Vincent De Paul charity but I still need to ask for their opinions. I handed up all of the due work to the teacher.

18th August 2010
 * Journal 7: Week 5, Term 3**

This week we have made our focus questions for our research topic which is on gamblers going homeless due to bankruptcy. Mrs Wouds helped us with the focus questions, I used theconcept map to set out the focus questions. 10th August 2010
 * Joural 6: Week 4, Term 3**

This my group and I have noticed that we are few weeks behind, so we quickly thought about what our hypothesis for our resarch topic which is about homeless people. Now we have finally figured out what our hypothesis which is; __People who gamble are likely to become bankrupted and homeless__. And now we are waiting for Mrs Woud to help us with the focus questions. 3rd August 2010
 * Journal 5: Week 3, Term 3**

After Emily, Ly and I have conducted the concept map we have noticed that we have made a variety of questions and answers about homeless people. We are now on our way doing the hypothesis and focus questions on our chosen research topic. 26th July 2010
 * Journal 4: Week 2, Term 3**

This week I learnt how to construct a Hypothesis and what is it for. A hypothesis is a guiding question that helps you do your research on something or it is like a science experiment. In this week I am starting to choose my research topic with Emily and Ly, we have done a concept map on Homeless People. We are going to do volunteering at a shelter where the homeless people are staying at. __This is our concept map:__ 22nd June 2010
 * Journal 1: Week 10, Term 2**

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**. Today in Research Project we have learned about the metaphor to describe the research project. What I have learned myself that it is like a science experiment which has a hypothesis to investigate, method to conduct the research, a results that was documented and also a conclusion and evaluation. I think the research project is very important to me and others because it gives people the opportunity to learn more about something that they are interested in, but haven’t had the chance to find out about it. What I have achieved today in the research project is learning more about the Research project and what we do in there, I have started writing up my research project journal. I have read through the six steps in RBL when doing a research.

__The six steps of RBL:__ 1. Define:
 * Finding out what topic to research a topic
 * Getting a Hypothesis and Research Questions

2. Locate: 3. Select: 4. Organise: 5. Present: 6. Evaluate:
 * locating the information
 * Primary sources e.g. interviews, surveys, photos, videos and journals
 * Secondary sources e.g. Books, magazine articles, biographies, documentries, newspaper and internet sites
 * Selecting the information
 * critically analyse information and select appropriate materials for their chosen format
 * Organising the information found
 * Layout and design, using the harvard referencing system
 * The final product-oral, oral. multimedia or a combination
 * Brainstorm ideas ina whole group
 * Individual contributions to the group
 * Make decisions to determine research
 * a written reflection based on DeBono's 6 Thinking hats
 * A folder that demonstrates the depth, extent and focus of learning

25th June 2010
 * Journal 2: Week 11, Term 2**

In this week at Research Project the skills that I have learnt is to reference using the Harvard Referencing System. Referencing is a little similar to bibliography, but the difference about referencing is when you have used any kind of source in your assigment or any type of work from other people. You would have to include the author, when it was published, what date you accessed and used the information. You would have to put all of those information at the end of your work to show what sources you have used to the teacher. In my opinion, I think that referencing takes up too much time and I'd prefer not to do it because when researching I would find alot of information I tend to not remember the date and wesites and visited. But on the other hand if I ddin't reference then it would be plagiarizing the person that wrote the article or posted the information up on the website. So I think it would be better to reference so it would give the author credit for their information.

19th July 2010 This week in research project I found out what my learning style is, by doing the quiz. Here are my result: My highest results showed that I'm myself smart, <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">it tells me that I know my own strength and weaknesses. I would probably keep a diary. This is sometimes called Interpersonal. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">This quiz that ﻿I have taken has helped me with a better understanding of what my learning style is. The graph showed that I am Intrapersonal smart, the sencond highest one is body smart, the next two is visual/spatial and Interpersonal, then it was linguistic and logical smart, and the last one is naturalistic and musical. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I have also learnt how to use the concept map to expand my understanding of the topic before going to research. I am now using the concept map for everything that I am researching and before conducting the research. In my opinion I think that using the concept map is very useful because you expandq my knowledge about that topic
 * Journal 3: Week 1, Term 3**