Tenille

***Week 1/ Week 10 Term 2 - I am awesome week :)**
__Monday: 21.6.2010__ Introduction to research project. Found out learning styles, I am a tactile learning - touching ;D

__Wednesday: 23.6.2010__ Moodle site: 6 steps of Resource Based Learning Wrote summaries of the 6 steps. I didn't get it all finished though due to my computer not accessing the internet. - I need to finish this another lesson.

__Friday: 25.6.2010__ I was unfortunately absent from this exciting lesson :'(


 * Week 2/ Week 11 Term 2 - I am also awesome this week :)**

__Monday: 28.6.2010__ In this lesson I worked on referencing and did a work sheet and read some sheets about referencing.

__Wednesday: 30.6.2010__ In this lesson I set up my wikispace finally :) thanks to Mr Street for accepting my friend request lol. - he was going to reject me :( In this lesson I am just updating my journal and everything for last week and this week so far. When I am finished I will continue writing the 6 steps of Resource Based Learning from Wednesdays lesson and then finish my referencing work sheet.

__Friday: 2.7.2010__ Today we played maths games :) lol


 * Week 3/Week 1 Term 3 - Awesomeeee.**

__Monday: 19.7.2010__ In this lesson we drew up a concept map on the white board all about cats. The negatives of this lesson included the fact the computers wouldn't turn on so we couldn't use Inspiration 6 to do our concept maps. We made up for the negative by just drawing them by hand on pieces of paper.

__Wednesday: 21.7.2010__ In this lesson we are drawing up our concept maps of something that we want to research, using the computer program Inspiration 6.

__Friday: 23.7.2010__ In this lesson we are: 1. Update journals for this week

2. Working on our concept maps "inspiration 6" - My topic is 'Social Networking' because I did a investigative assignment on Facebook, "Facebook, friend or foe?" last term in Society and Culture and found out a lot of things I didn't know about social networking sites, in particular, Facebook. I want to know more and maybe get some awareness across that these websites and everything aren't exactly safe and you should take some time to think about how you can keep safe on these sites. - I've worked out the main questions surrounding my topic, e.g. Who uses social networking sites?, Why do people use social networking sites?, And privacy. From this main questions I've branched out further and came up with further questions or things like, from "Social Networking" I have branches out with a question saying "Why do people use social networking websites?" I have then branched out even further with the information so in this case, "Dating", "Making Friends" and "Stalking, harassing, bullying" are some of the branched out pieces of information. 3. Go to homepage of wikispace and click on bottom link about checking out a website


 * Week 4/Week 2 Term 3 - Alice's watch is coool :)**

__Monday: 26.7.2010__ Today I have uploaded my concept map :) It's looking pretty awesomeeee. I chose to do Social Networking as the topic for my concept map. I included things like Types of social networking, why do people use social networking websites. To get my concept map onto my wikispace journal, I saved the file as not only a normal inspiration file, I also saved it as a JPG file and then inserted it into my journal :) it was easy peeezy. __Wednesday: 28.7.2010__ Today I am doing the evaluating websites activity on [] (link at the bottom of the home page) It is basically just a little presentation with the aim of teaching us how to tell the difference between whether a website is a reliable source of information or whether it isn't. It also includes some things like whether sites are parody sites so basically spoof's of other websites such as eBays parody eGad. I think this activity is really useful for my research topic, because I don't want information that is wrong or information that is really made up of opinions, I want a lot of reliable information from a reliable source. I think a lot of people when researching just type the topic or question into Google and click on the first site they see and get their information from there. This ofcourse causes issues in the reliability of their information and research which can make you lose marks.

Some of the things you need to make sure a website has before you can determine whether it is reliable and useful or not include, is there a clear publisher? a clear year or date of publication or last edit? The web address can tell you a lot when looking for websites for information. Things like ".edu" and ".org" and ".gov" can indicate reliable sources, edu standing for education so it is obviously there for education purposes and are most likely reliable in their content and amount of information, org standing for organisation, which means the websites is an actual organisation's website and the information should be reliable 99% of the time and gov standing for government so it is a reliable government site. Websites that contain other things like just ".com" you really need to look through and see whether the information and website is reliable, you can't be sure.

Happy Birthday to me! :)
 * NOTE! -** Tomorrow is my birthday Mr Street :) get me presents, yes? :D

I am now looking on EBSCO host. This can be accessed by going to the schools Intranet and then there is a big circular button on the right hand side that reads EBSCO host. EBSCO host is a site where you can type in your topic of research and get up to date newspaper articles and things that are reliable. This includes an accurate reference.

__Friday: 30.7.2010__ Today we are using EBSCO host.


 * Week 5/Week 3 Term 3 - I was sick this week.**
 * THIS ENTIRE WEEK, I WAS SICK =D**

__Monday: 9.8.2010__
 * Week 6/Week 4 Term 3 - I'm better now :)**
 * i like donuts**


 * Using Ebscohost to find 5 articles about your topic: write a two sentence summary about the article and fully reference the article
 * What are the 5 things you should check on to evaluate how good a web site is?
 * A summary of the "You quote it, you note it" exercise

__Wednesday: 11.8.2010__ I was absent :(

__Friday: 13.8.2010__ I was on a 13 hour bus ride to Melbourne >.<

__Monday 16.8.2010__ I was in Melbourne =)
 * Week 7/Week 5 Term 3 I'm not sure where I was this week >.< Obviously not here. :(**

__Wednesday 18.8.2010__


 * ALICE HAS HICCUPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**


 * PLAGIARISM!**

You quote it, you note it - Plagiarism Plagiarism isn't just copying someone else's work and saying that it's your own. It is also: o Having a friend write a paper for him or using someone else’s paper as his own. o Submitting one of his own papers or assignments for more than one class. o Downloading or buying a term paper from the web. Doing these things could end with you failing.

If what you are writting is considered to be "common knowledge", there is no need to referenced.

__Monday 6.9.2010__ Show Day today! :D
 * Week 8**

__Wednesday 8.9.2010__ Alice and I worked on getting our surveys all done. We then began analysing the surveys. We started by seperating the surveys into year level groups (year 8's, year 9's and year 11's) After that was done, we seperated the year level groups of surveys into male and female. We then wrote out the questions on the survey into a Word document three times, once for each year level. Using different possible answers, we seperated all the answers given into the different categories.

__Friday 10.9.2010__ Today, Alice and I are working on updating our journals. We are making sure they are completely up to date, so Mr Street can mark our journals this afternoon. Hey my name is Tenille and I love alice =D (L) We also worked on our Gantt Chart and our guiding questions.



__Monday 9.13.2010__ Today when I tried to sign into my Wikispace, it told me my name is 'Steve'. It was quite disappointing :( I don't think it likes me, I think you should change the name on my Wikispace to Steve :) I recieved my Capabilites back and I got 10/10. :) I'm very proud of myself. I am currently sitting on a **B** which makes me very happy :) all my hard work has paid off :) Today I'm working on Ebsco Host. - Using Ebscohost to find 5 articles about your topic: write a two sentence summary about the article and fully reference the article So far, I've done 3 articles and will finish the rest on Wednesday
 * Week 9**

Throughout this week, Alice and I put together the surveys we took. We worked out the percentages and everything to do with the surveys. This took a lot of effort because we had to sit down and count all the yes' and no's that people wrote for their surveys and had to organise them into the different year levels.
 * TERM 4! :D**
 * Week 1.**

We also discussed our presentation. We have decided to present our information in a powerpoint presentation. From our surveys, we realised that a lot of the younger year levels, like the year 8's and 9's do not have a great understanding of internet safety. So we have decided that we will present our findings and our presentation to year 8's and 9's. We have also decided that instead of telling them simply not to use these websites, because we know that just wont work, we have decided to teach them how to be safe on the internet.

This week Alice has been getting extremely frustrated at her wikispace. It seems to not like her much :( This week Alice and I have been gathering a lot of information for our presentation. We have focused on researching different social networking, and some problems and issues behind social networking websites.
 * Week 2**

Wednesday - Alice and I went to talk with Mr Bickley today. We thought that talking to someone who has a lot to do with the internet and computers would be very benificial for our research project. Unfortunately, we were unaware that Mr Bickley was not at school today. This wasted a lot of our time. While we were waiting though, Alice and I jumped on the computers in the music centre and did a bit of research about internet safety and social networking sites. We then came back to class and worked on our journals. Unfortunately, my partner, Alice is **STILL** having lots of trouble with her wikispace. =( this is putting us back a little.

Alice and I will both do a lot of work at home over the next few days, and the weekend.


 * //*This week the draft of our research is due.//**
 * //Unfortunately, we aren't in class on Friday due to an assembly, so we will hand up the draft of our research early next week, so Monday or Wednesday.//**

Once again, Alice is having A LOT of trouble with her wikispace. This is frustrating both of us, I mean, it's frustrating Alice, I'm just laughing :D
 * Week 3**

Alice and I have a lot of work to do this lesson, she is currently updating her Wikispace while I finish getting our research all together. Today we also decided what we would do for our presentation. We've decided on a PowerPoint presentation that we will present to a year 9 class. We went around to some classes and found teachers who were teaching year 9's on this line, we decided that we would do our presentation to Mr Monoghan's year 9 music class. We are going to go speak to him and make sure it is alright that lesson one on Monday week 5 we present to his class.
 * //*This week we have to remember to submit the draft of our research.//**

Today, Alice and I are entering our survey results into excel to make graphs showing the statistics of things like the percentage of people that use social networking sites daily, and the percentage of people that have been approached by strangers on the internet or witnessed harassment. We are then going to go verify the presentation with Mr Monoghan. Our presentation will be in M8 and we will see about using the Smart Board to present our PowerPoint.

We have finished making some graphs to display our survey results. Right now, Alice is starting our PowerPoint presentation while I update **both** of our journals to make sure we are both up to date.