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Term 1. Journal Entry Week 1. - Monday Today imet my teacher and he introduced himself and what we will be doing this semester. His name is Mr Stav. - Wednesday Today my class and I were introduced to the class wiki, which has been set up in order to provide us with a space in which to display and record our work. We also got a document to help us select a topic and plan out our project. - Friday Today we continued with our starter packs.

Journal Entry Week 2. - Monday. Today we continued with our starter packs and selecting possible topics. - Wednesday. In todays lesson I discovered we were not meant to create a new page for every journal entry so I created this page. I also joined a group today and we chose a topic; video games and their effect on society. -Friday. I was absent on Friday and miised out on the days occurances.

Journal Entry Week 3 - I was absent for the entirity of this week, due to a bleeed in my knee. This caused me much discomfort and as a result I did not attend any of the lessons for research during this week. I shall endeavour to catch up on any work I have missed. I was un-able to get on my computer for this period and henceforth missed posts that occured during this period.

Journal Entry Week 4. - Monday. Today I returned to school and found I had missed out on a lot of work. I required help from my teacher to attempt to keep up. The teacher showed me where the discussion section of the class wiki was located and. -Tuesday. This Tuesday I created a survey on the site Survey Monkey. I posted various links to this site and my survey around the class wiki (if you have not completed this survey, then please do)! -Wednesday. Much like the rest of the week, I have been attempting to get more people to complete our survey and I also added an extension for the survey. In the second lesson I searched for studies and their results on video games and their effects on society. I found evidence and results from many studies over the previous two decades. I found some of these studies were un-reliable but I am going to use them as examples of how mis-informartion on my topic can get into the public arena. I gathered links to all the sites I think may useful in a word document. - Friday. Today I have begun my main research on my chosen question. As I had been working on the group survey, journal entries and general research about our topic, I have not completed much research into my individual question.

In order to discover more about not societies opinions, but general information re this issue. The results were mostly as I expected except for few things. The number of people who had played games, it was such because everyone who had completed the survey had played games and whether they believe they have a negative affect, to which most people said not a stereotypical yes or no but said it depended who was playing.

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Journal Entry Week 5. - Monday. Today I have been attempting to create citations for the resources I have used so far i.e. websites, books etc. - Wednesday. Sports Day. - Friday. I spent this day searching for more studies on video games. I found it annoying, because every major institute wants you to pay for the results and information they have discovered re our topic. The few that dont are not really credible and hence forth not viable.

Journal Entry Week 6. -Monday. Today I have searched further for credible studies. I have some great examples of research that is not accurate in regard to many statements they make, some do not even know the categories of games they compare to each other (i.e. One which I discovered a couple of weeks ago compared the effects of a First Persn Shooter to those of a racing game. These were both put under the category action, rather than respective categories that any gamer will tell you. I have played both these games, one of which was described as ultra violent and I can tell you, from personal experience they are no where near as violent as much of the programs on tv or movies. -Wednesday. Today I got the group map -Friday. Absent.

Journal Entry Week 7. -Monday. This Monday I was advised by the teacher, that our group map had some issues which needed to be resolved. He called me up t0 him and explained what they were. I then had to go and explain them to my group. We resolved these by making the recomended changes, one of which was to put in place a colour coded primary and secondary system. Thisystem has made it easier to tell a secondary source from its counter part. -Wednesday. Today there was a electricity shortage and most of the schools electronic equipment would not work. As a result this Wendesday the teacher got everyone to give a practice oral presentation. This practice oral presentation was fun and very helpful. -Friday. This Friday I have

Journal Entry Week 8. -Monday. -Wednesday. Today we worked on our scaffld and our group map. This was still not quite right but I now feel confident with the group map. - Friday. Today I have worked on our scaffold.

Journal Entry Week 9. -Monday. Today I continued my search for journals that would allow acces to their information and worked on surveys. - Wednesday. I continued with my work and worked on the group scaffold. - Friday. Things I have learnt with no direct relationship to my topic include; how to make a map like those shown below, how to use a wiki site and functions such as uploading images and documents, use a discussion, reference work and work better in a group.

Journal Entry Week 10. - Monday. Today I worked on our group scaffold and finnished my section. - Wednesday. I continued with our surveys and attempting to put our group scaffold together. - Friday. Today we worked on our scaffold together, in order to finnish everybody's scaffold.

Journal Entry Week 1. - Monday. Today I worked on our scaffold in order to finnish everybody's and also we worked on our surveys. - Wednesday. I continued with our group scaffold and survey. - Friday. Today we worked on our group scaffold and everybody has now nearly finished

Journal Etry Week 2. Monday. Today we have worked on our group scaffold and almost everyone has now finnished. Wednesday. I continued on with the group scaffold and my research. - Friday. Today we worked on Research Project.

Journal Entry Week 3. - Monday. Today I worked on the scaffoldwith my group. - Wednesday. I spent today working on the scaffold with my group. - F

Our first attempt at a group map is shown below. ==

Our second attempt is shown below.



After several other attempts at creating a group map we came up with the one shown below.



Information.

Handy Addresses below in the word document Useful Adresses.

Reference 1 for Practice.



Reference for practice.

ore references re sources of information still to come.