Nargis

Before week five I was overseas. __Week 5, Wed 18 Aug__ Today is my first day in this class, I have looked at the tutorial about researching. I was a very helpful tutorial, I learnt how to choose a good website by looking at the web address and the website. When we go to a website to research for something we need to consider 5 questions about the website and they are: Who? Who is the author, is he/she working with a reputable organization? When? When was the website last updated which is usually shown on the bottom of the page. If it’s been updated long ago, the information could be wrong.

What? What is the point of providing the information? Is there any advertisements, if there is, is it related to the content? How? Is there any error on the website? Is it easy to find information? Why? Is the author trying to say one particular point? Is the information general?

__Week 5, Friday 20 Aug﻿__  Today I'm still getting used to work with Wikispace. Maria and I also planning to choose our research question. There are a lot of topics about cancer. We are trying to find a good way of treatment for cancer. We came up to do Chemotherapy. I have uploaded our map which is being made by Maria to my page. 1) what have you achieved? I have an account in wikispace. I got the concept map from Maria and uploaded to my page. 2) What you want to achieve? I want to complete my research successfull. I need ti find articles about cancer treatment. Maria and I want to have the chance to interview some doctors Women and Children Hospital, hopefully we will on Wednsday the coming week. 3) Positives I really feel confident in this class so I can work much better. 4) Negative I didn't know what to do on the first lesson and I was thinking I am going to fial.

__Week 6, Monday 23 Aug__

Maria and I finished our capabilities sheet.

__Week 6, wed 25____Aug__ Maria and I made questions about our research topic. We were preparing to survey an specialized doctor in Women and Children Hospital. Mr Street wrote the letter for Women and Children Hospital to let us see the doctors and we typed it. __Week 6, Fri 27 Aug__

Maria and I printed the letter and gave it to Mr street to sign it. Maria talked to her friend who is working in the Women and Children Hospital to make an appointment for us to visit the doctors at that hospital. She said we can visit them on Wednesday next week before 1 o'clock, because they have staff meeting at that time. We decided to leave school at recess time that we get there by half past 11. Marian and I have supervise Study on lesson 3 and 4, so we won't miss any important lesson. We are planning to start interview at 11:30 to 12:30 and come to school before lunch. 1) what have you achieved? I have completed the five capabilities, I have uploaded the concept map on my page, we have made deep and skinny questions about our topic, we are already book appointment to visit Women and Children Hospital and most importantly I am more confident about my research topic. 2) What do you want to achieve? I want to catch up with the other work which students have been doing from the beginning of the semester. I want to prepare questions to ask doctors at Women and Children Hospital. 3) Positive Permission to go to Women and Children Hospital 4) Negative We haven't completed the ghant chart and prepare the survey for Wednesday. 5) Intresting Getting to know more about concer.

__Week 7, Mon 30 Aug__

Maria and I prepared questions for our survey on wednesday. We prepared two different types of question sheets, one for the survey and another one for the interview. There are many questions that I want to know. I am really excited to go the hospital, I think we are very lucky to get the permission to go the Women and Choldren Hospital.

__Week 7, Wed 1 sep__

We have just got back from hospital. We were suppose to be there at 11:45 but were late. Maria's friend Smitha who is working in the Broadman Ward as a registered nurse, took us to the the Broadman Ward. She introduced many nurses in there and five of the nurses filled our survey sheet. We were very lucky because one consultant oncologist also filled one of our survey sheet.Smitha said most of the doctors and high rank people went to the Sydney for this week, so we could only survey nurses. Ms Millers' mother was also one of the nurses that we surveyed, we didn't know she was her mother, she asked us who is our science teacher and then she said she Ms Millers' mother. The doctor who we wanted to interveiw was very bussy and Smitha had to go to her duty at 1 o'clock. We didn't ge ta chance to interview someone. We asked Smitha to interview her later at Maria's house and she said she can. After that we came back to the school.

__Week 7, Fri 3 sep__

We are analysing our survey results, there many interesting staffs. I am also updating my journals for today and yesterday. 1) What have I achieved? I have achieved so many things, the most important one is getting done the survey. every week I get more and more confident about this subject. I have almost updated my journal for every day. 2) What do you want to achieve? I want to to visit the website about plagiarism and write a summary for it, I also need to the 6 Researching Base Learning Steps summary. I want to reread the survey sheet. I want to finish all my missing work to get an A for this subject! 3) Positive: The positive thing is to visiting the Women and Children Hospital and getting done the Survey. I also met many nice people in there, especielly Ms. Millers Mother in that Hospital. 4) Negative: I have seen 2 children with cancer who have been having chemotherapy treatment, it was really sad. The topic cancer is a very sad. Another thing is that I still have missing work and need to finish them to get an A for this term. 5) Interesting: This topic, cancer is sad and interesting, I got the chance to know more about the body and what happens.

__Week 8, Wed 8 sep__

I had 4 days off which was a good chance for me to study for my chemistry test, it was very stressfull to me. I was suppose to have a test but Ms. Joshi didn't have it so we are going to have it on Friday. Today I am doing the 6 RBL steps, it's a bit hard to write the summary for because tthere are many things to be mentioned. So it took me the whole double lesson to finish it. Maria is always nice to me, and she drew a table and typed the answers of the survey sheet.

__Week 8, Fri 10 sep__ I'm updating my journal today and handing up my work, I didn't have printing money yesterday to I hand it up today. I also got 5 articles for my research topic from Maria. **Article1 ** Source: Northern Territory News (includes Sunday Territorian), Jul 27, 2010, p10, 1p Adding more drugs to cancer treatment is not effective. But just the radiotherapy is much better than adding new drugs to the treatment. The impact have been found that when a chemotherapy drug add to radiotherapy. Doing the radiotherapy only have much greater benefit. **Article 2 ** Source: ABC Premium News, Jun 30, 2010 The University of Western Australia has found that tea tree oil is a good treatment for skin cancer. Australia has the highest number of skin cancer. But Research associate, Dr Sara Greay says people should not try that on their skins because there is a formula for the exact medicine. There is a formula that prevent it from evaporation and which increases its penetration into the skin. **Article 3 ** Author: |slrl','');|Danny Rose, Medical Writer Source: |jdbanhjnh||ssJN "AAP Australian National News Wire"||sljh','');|AAP Australian National News Wire ; 14/06/2010 An Australian company has developed a treatment which shrinks the tumors. But the cancer council was confused. Then they tested it on animals. It was success in animals. They could not predict the success in humans. They want to make sure that, the tumours are not coming again for those animals. **Article 4 ** Source: |jdbanhjnh||ssJN "ABC Premium News"||sljh','');|ABC Premium News ; 26/07/2010 A scientist in Queensland says a pigment in our cells and body can control the cancer and cardiovascular disease. It can protect the cellular damage that causes theses diseases. The diseases can be known in early stages if this project team can know how process works, Dr Andrew Bulmer from the Griffith Health Institute says. **<span style="color: #f70da9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Article 5 ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Authors: |slrl','');|DENIS CRAVEN Source: |jdbanhjnh||ssJN "Geelong Advertiser"||sljh','');|Geelong Advertiser ; 15.07.2010, p21-21, 1 A drug Omapro has been accepted in US, which is a good treatment of patients who have chronic myeloid leukemia. Australia has done a deal with the company to get this drug. 1) What have I achieved?﻿I have finished the summary of 6 RBL steps and handed up. I also got the 5 articles from Maria.
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2) What do you want to achieve?﻿I am trying to write my journal as best as i can to get a good mark for it. I also want to finish the summary for pagiarism.

3) Positive: I have updated my journal and handed up my 6 RBL steps summary. I have uploaded the five articles.

4) Negative: I still haven't done the summary of plagiarism.

5) Interesting: Getting to know about the consequeneces of plagiarism.

__Week 9, Mon 13 Sep__ Today I'm updating my journal and finished writing the plagiarism summary. Maria has finished ghantt chart, I feel very sorry because I am catching up with my work and she is basically doing everything. __Week 9, Wed15 Sep__

I have finished Refrencing assinment today in my Supervise Study lesson. Today Mr. Street is going to mark do our report, so all the students need to hand up what whatever they are missing. I am going to upload the ghantt chart to my wikispace today.



__Week 9, Fri 17 Sep__

Today I'm updating my journal and finished everything, hopefully I get an A. Maria is not here and I feel a little lonely, she said she is sick, hopefully she comes on Monday because she's got the survey results.

1) What have I achieved? I have completed all the works that I was missing. My jounals are up to date. I have also updated the ghantt chart.

2) What do you want to achieve? I want start the actual research and go through the survey sheets again. It is sometimes confusing because the answers are very different in the survey, we have to research to know which ones are right.

3) Positive: My journals are up to date, my our ghantt chart is uploaded.

4) Negative: I can't thing of any negative.

5) Interesting: Everyday we get to know many different thing about this topic, there are so many things happening in our body that we can't even thing of them happening.

__Week 10, Mon 20 Sep__

This is the last week of this term. I have got and A and I am really happy and it is all because of Mr. Street's and Maria's help, other wise I couldn't even dream of getting an A. I feel very good in this class. Maria's is not here today agian, I hope she is well, I am worried about her she has missed lots of work in Maths and and Chemistry. I hope she is going to be well tomarrow and come to school.

__Week 10, Wed 22 Sep__

Today we are suppose to write a summary of how to make a good survey from a website. I have written some, but I'm not sure if it's enough, I will hand it up tomarrow. Maria and I have to start our research, we have to present it on week 5 next term.

Week 10, Fri 24 Sep

Today is the last lesson of Research Project and I am a bit worried, because I've only 5 weeks to do the works, I am missing a lot of work for beeing away, I don't want to miss a single day. Today I got my report, the only A that I got is for Research Project, the rest are Bs and C grads. I want to pu my best efford to catch up with all missing work in this holidays. I have to research for a type of cancer for my biology, which I think is going to help with my Research Project.

1) What have I achieved?

I am up to date with my Research Project, I have done the summary of how to make a good survey. My Journals are up to date.

2) What do you want to achieve? I want to start and do most of the research done in this holidays. I want to use the surveys and the research information to start to conduct a good presentation. Maria is going to survey her friend Smitha who is working in the hospital, I think we are going to make a video for our presentation, beside the video we are also going to write a report. Beside Research Project I want to finish my ESL, Math and biology work in this holidays to pass the SACE.

3) Positive: My journals are up to date, I have done the summary of how to make a good survey.

4) Negative: I have to many assignments to do during holidays.

5) Interesting: Everyday we get to know many different thing about this topic, there are so many things happening in our body that we can't even thing of them happening

HOW TO WRITE A GOOD SURVEY The goal for writing a good survey is to write short and straightforward questions that each person can read in the same way. You can only make a good questionnaire if you do careful writing, editing, review, and rewriting. There are guidelines to conduct a good survey Some of them are: · Write a short questionnaire, a questionnaire should be as short as possible, if the question is unnecessary, remove it   · Use simple words, some survey recipients may have different backgrounds, so use simple language · Relax your grammar, don’t make it sound too formal, for example instead of using the technical word of whom, use who · Assure a common understanding, write questions that everyone will understand, not everyone having that same understanding of the facts · Start with interesting questions, make the question attractive to get the get the respondent’s attention · Don’t write leading question, a leading question is a question that it’s already suggesting the answer · Don’t make the list of choices too long, it is difficult to evaluate a long and unfamiliar list of answer categories · Avoid difficult concepts, some questions have difficult concept which would be too hard too hard to understand for some people · Avoid difficult recall questions

__Week 1, Mon 11 Oct__ Today is the first day of first week of term 4. I am updating my journal. Maria has done the interview with her friend, and she permitted to use her interview for our presentation. I have to start my research today. I found a god website which I think has all the information that we need. I have showen to Marian and she said she also has that website's information, because she has done another research for cancer last semester and she used that website's information. __Week 1, Wed 13 Oct__ Today Maria and I were prepering for our presrentation. Mr Street has showen us a power point presentation and a report scaffold which makes easier to write the report. We are writing our report using the report scaffold. __Week 1, Fri 15 Oct__ Today I am updating my jounal and we are also continuing wiritng the report. 1) What have I achieved?

I am up to date with my Research Project. My Journals are up to date. Marian and I are almost confident about what we are doing. We started writing the report and have planned how to present it. 2) What do you want to achieve? I want to finish writing the report and do well in our presentation.

3) Positive: My journals are up to date, Maria and I started writing the report. We also have planned for the presentation.

4) Negative: We could have done much more in these lessons but we chatted about other things.

5) Interesting I am very interested to see the interview, as Maria's explanation, it's a good interview.