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Project based on Teenage Alcoholism.
====When i started my researching on the project me and cheri had chosen, i thought we were to do the journey entry so i kept doing that with him till i realised that we were supposed to do it seperatley. I then made up goals for that week i was in which was in week six and some of those goals were to catch up on the work we were doing in the class and start writing my journey entry for i hadn't been writing it the whole past weeks. in that week i went home spent some time writing my journey and at the same time working on the project. I'd say i reached my goals for that week because i did catch up to what other people were doing on the journey entry and with the project.====

Week 1 ====In this first week, i wasn't there the first couple of days but when i came, we was assigned to make a group of four people however we didn't have four people so me and Cheri made a two-man group. I was given a brief introduction on what we were to do for the semester.====

__MAHATMA GANDHI__
====(Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in Porbandar, India and died on the 30th of January 1948. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the Twentieth Century.==== ====Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He helped free the them Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by his people as the father of the Indian Nation. Gandhi is often referred to as Gandhi Mahatma by the Indian people, meaning Great Soul.====

Week 2.
====In the second week Mr Stav introduced us to wikispaces. He briefly showed us how it works and we spent most of this week's time trying to get ourselves a wiki account. I got myself one and started working on the tasks that were given to me as well as getting to know how the wikispaces works. We continued using wikispaces, posting post to one another but at first i started working on my research project however i didn't get it to show up on the home page.====

During this week Mrs Miller also showed us few clips about primary and secondary sources and told us that we had to include examples of secondary and primary sourses in our project.
====Duting this week Mr Stav also intruduced us to Survey monkey which is a free online survey software and questionnaire tool that lets you create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. It also provides free online questionnaires and surveys.====

After being introduced we had to each join so i mad myself an acount. When that was done me and Cheri made a couple of questions to post into our survey about Gandhi and they included
Our focus questions were How did gandi influence poeple in 19 30’s and 40’s? and How did he help india to get endipendence from british without wepons and violence.?

Week 3.
====In the third week we continued working on the research project, me and cheri sometimes went to the library to look for books regarding Gandhi however we didn't find the ones we were looking for. After a few days working on the project Mr Stav then Introduced us to survey monkey. I made myself a survey monkey account and started making a survey on Gandhi. After a few responses we latter decided to change our topic from Gandhi to teenage alcoholism because no that many people were taking the Gandhi survey serous. During this week i also tried to get my project that wouldn't show up on the home page before but i still failed.====

During this week one of the thing i learnt was referencing books.
====Mr stav also introduced us to this progamme that teach you how to reference books and other things like websites. He also told is it is important to have a least a bit expirience with thes kind of things because we are going to neet them in year 12.====

Week 4
====During this week Mr Stav told me what we were doing because most of the other students were ahead of me. After being told what we were going to work on me and Cheri decided to do our project based on one of the world's loved and memorable man known as Gandhi.==== ====In this fourth week we decided to change our topic from Gandhi to teenage alcoholism, so we started gathering information as well as the questions and tried to think of the focus one. we continued working on the questions and we also made a survey regarding teenage alcoholism using survey monkey and deleted the existing one on Gandhi. We then posted the survey onto our wikispaces and tried to get people to take it. At first a few people took it, some gave stupid responses but they were better than those of the first survey.====

Our topic is on Teenage alcoholism.
====Teenage alcoholism is the excessive and progressive use of alcohol in adolescents and young adults between the age of 12 and 20. Though consumption of alcohol by people under 21 is illegal, a significant number of teenagers are facing problems of excessive drinking. Most teenagers who drink will often drink too much which will result in Binge Drinking. This is the second level of drinking; it may result in vomiting, car crashing, body damages and many other bad things. Even though both teenage and adult consume alcohol, teenage drink more irresponsibly than adults though I'm not saying adults should drink alcohol and teenage shouldn't. Most teenagers adopt that habit from their parents or the caregivers they grew up seeing around.====

Here are some of the books regarding alcoholism mainy on teenagers and young parents.
For this part of the topic we are to conduct surveys on Teenage Alcoholism, research and find 3 to 4 questionss along with a forcus one to use for our scarffold. so to do that we have to use books from the library, gather statistics and data from the internet, use Primary and Secondary resources, communicate with the teacher and ask the class members if they have any ideas about our research related topic that they would like to share.

Week 5
====During this week we were just finalizing the survey, collecting response and trying to get more people to take our survey. In this week we also started a new task, the concept map. it when we had to use inspiration to try and get information about our research topic and also try and find answers to them questions that we came up with the week before. We continued working on the concept map and we also printed some copies of the survey so we could try and get people outside of school to take them.====

and these are the questions that were asked in our survey:
===1. DO you think alcohol affects human body? How?===

===2. How old are you?===

===3. What gender are you?=== Female ||
 * [[image:http://www.surveymonkey.com/i/t.gif]] Male

===4. Do you drink Alcohol?=== No   Sometimes  ||
 * [[image:http://www.surveymonkey.com/i/t.gif]] Yes

===5. How often do you drink?=== 2-3 times a week 4-5 times a week Only on weekends Don't drink at all ||
 * [[image:http://www.surveymonkey.com/i/t.gif]] Once a week

===6. Do your parents drink alcohol? ( optional)=== Yes No ===7. When did you started drinking?===

===8. Do you know what binge drinking is?=== ===9. Does alcohol effect your brain?=== NO ||
 * [[image:http://www.surveymonkey.com/i/t.gif]] Yes

10. How much money do you spend on Alcohol? || Not at all $15 to $25 a week $25 to $35 a week $35 to $45 a week More ====And looking at this question's responses you can see that most of the people who took our survey are mainly teenagers and yet most of them said that they have drunk before or at least know someone who drink or bing drink.====
 * ====And here is the results of one the response we collected from those questions.====

Week 6
====This the week when I'm currently writing this journey entry and on Monday the 7th I and Cheri continued working on the concept map and organizing the survey. When he was done he wanted to work on the concept map so he asked me if i could start writing the journey entry for him. so i did that while he was working on the map. When i was done with that i made another map only with the focus questions. After all that was done he copied the two maps and added them onto his journey entry.====

Friday 11th March 2011 of Week 6
====Today was the last day of week six and we didn't get to do that much things not because of the fact it was the last day but because Mr Stav was explaining how we were going to be marked, what we need to do if we want to pass and all other encouraging things. He also called out some of the students that were still behind on something and told them what they needed to do if they wanted to catch up. I went to him because i wanted to show him my project that i had done over the last two days. when the talking was finished, i logged in onto my survey monkey account and started looking at the survey trying to see if there's any new answers. hen i was done with that the lesson had almost finished so i played around for a few minutes waiting for the bell to ring.====

Tuesday 15th March 2011 of week 7
====On this day the teacher wasn't there so we had a reliever, the substitute teacher wrote on the board what we needed to be doing and she explained to us as well. We was to look at our grade and send Mr Stav a post if we weren't happy with it. i was okay about it so i continued looking at the Scaffold which was to be our second task if we finished with the grade. After that I and Cheri went to the library to get some books regarding alcohol. By the time we came back it was the end of the lesson.==== ====For the scarffold we had four questions that we had to research about and find answers to them. I and Cheri then devided them into two so we can do two each. the qusetions that i chose to work on were __Why do teenagers drink?__ and __In which ways can we educate teenagers to drink responsibly__ while my other team member Cheri was doing the other two questions which were __What is alcohol abuse?__ and __What are the effects of alcohol?__====

Wednesday 16th March 2011 of week 7
==== When we got in the class, after i had logged in i started working on my journey entry correcting spelling errors when the teacher was helping some of the students. After that i tried to get my journey entry to come up on the home page for i couldn't do it before. I finally got it to show up on my home page. After that was done i tried finding information on teenage alcoholism using the web at the same time writing the journey entry. Well that's about everything i did for these double lessons. ====

Friday 18th March 2011 of week 7
====On this day there was no power so we couldn't use the computers. The teacher then told us to introduce the topic each of us were working on for our research project so a group at a time went in front and introduced what their topic was regarding on in a quick presentation. I and Cheri then did ours alongside everyone in the class. When we were done with that, the electricity was back so i tried logging in into a computer but however i couldn't use internet so I logged off and waited for the bell because it was about to go. ==== During this week Mr Stav tought us a better way to research thing on the web using Advanced search, and this how it looked like. ||  ||   ||





I'd say this helped me a lot because it cuts down the number of results but taking out the ones that don't best suit your topic and it also saves you time.

Monday 21st March 2011 of week 8
====Today i didn't do much because i was just catching up on the things that i didn't do when i needed to do them. After that i started searching up information regarding our topic (teenage alcoholism). I also started working on the scarffold and continued working on it until the lesson finished.====

Tuesday 22nd March 2011 of week 8
====Today we had a reliever and he had notes of what we were to do for this lesson given to him by Mr Stav (our current teacher). The substitute teacher wrote on the board what we had to do and it was to continue working on our project so i continued working on the scaffold that i had started the lesson before.====

Monday 28th March 2011 of week 9
====On this day we had a reliever and he told us what we were to be doing.we were told to be working on our project so me and cheri continued working on the scaffold that we was doing the day before. I kept looking for information to add on my scaffold when cheri was trying to get some of the questions answered.====

Tuesday 29th March 2011 0f week 9
====Today we also had a reliver and he told us to keep working on the scaffold so i came in, logged in and started working on it. I first tried to update the journey entry because i didnt write what i did the day before so i did that and continued working on the scaffold.====

Today we came in i loged in and contunued working on the scaffold.
Monday 4th april 2011 of weekk 10 Today when we came in the tearcher explained a bit more about the scarffold and the told us to go look at our recent grades. After that we continued working on the scarffold. i continued working on one of the questions that i chose to work on while cheri was working on his as well.

Wednesday 6th april 2011 of week 10 Today when we came in i loged in and attempted to contunue working on my scarffold but however the teacher wanted to talk to us a bit more about about the capabilities we have to include in our researching. He also talked to us about th grading told us to check our mark that he had given us over the night. We were to talk to him if we weren't happy about it. During this lesson i also tried to finish off and added my scarffold into this homepage.

Monday 11th April 2011 of week 11 Today when we came in the teacher eplained a bit more about the grading and told use when the final day for the scarffold to be finished is and told us that we ought be doing some work on it during our 2 weeks holidays. After that we contunued working on the scarffold for that's the only work we had.

Focus Question Concept Map

OUR CONCEPT MAP Both me and Cheri did some work on this map. I started working on it while he was doing the book referencing and he then came to help after he was done.



Me Colloborating with my class and Mr. Stav



Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 of week 1 Today was my first day after the two weeks holidays so i came in the classroom and found out that we've been given a different teacher for some reasons. So i got in the teacher called the role and i started working on the scaffold. Before that i checked everything and got myself organised before doing things. After doing a little work on the scaffold i started writing the journey entry.

Wednesday 4th May 2011 of week 1 Today we came in the classroom, the teacher called the role when finished she started checking where people were up to with their project. The people who were waiting were to keep working on their project so i continued doing the scaffold and then stopped after a while to update my journey entry.

Wednesday 18th May 2011 Today we came in i continued working on the scaffold and Cheri was working on trying to make a new survey. Few minutes later, he finished with the survey, printed off copies and told me to come with him around the school and tried to get people to take our survey. We then went around the school and thought we should go to the senior learning area for there would be more students there. When we got there, we gave our survey to a few students thought it wasn't enough so we then went to the library and got the rest copies of our survey done by the students that were in there. We then came back and got the responses to the survey checked by the teacher. After that I started writing the journey entry.

This week some of my goals are: to start and finish the PowerPoint work and get it ready for presentation
 * To keep updating my journey entry
 * Complete the evaluating your work sheet
 * complete the scaffold
 * start thinking of putting my work into a folder

Monday 23rd may 2011 So for this first day when we got into the classroom, I started trying to complete the scaffold. After a few minutes i stopped working on the scaffold and tried to start the PowerPoint. I also did some work on that but however we didn't have much time for it was one lesson, so i stopped that and started writing the journey entry.

Tuesday 24th May 2011 Today when we came in the classroom, we told not to log in yet because the teacher had to talk to us about DeBono Thinking Systems which were the six thinking hats. We told some of the lesson's time to look at them and some examples of people who did it last year. When we were done with that, I started working on scaffold. I did a little work on it and did some work on the PowerPoint presentation as well though I don't think i made a big progress to my this week's goals yet.

Wednesday 25th May 2011 Today when we came in the classroom, i continued working on the scaffold for it was one of my goals to finish it off for the week. By today my scaffold is nearly done so now i have to concentrate more on working on the PowerPoint presentation.

The week has ended though I don't think i reached both my goals of the week for i failed to complete the scaffold but i nearly finished it so that's enough progress. I also failed to put my work into a folder because i didn't have one (Cheri, My partner has it). I also failed to complete the evaluating your work sheet but however i did kept updating my journey entry. Because i didn't finish these last week's goals, I'm going to set them my this week's goals as well and try to do them.

Monday 30th of may 2011 Today i came to class and continued working on my scaffold. Cheri and I desccused about how we were going to devide up the work and see if we can both finish the scaffold and get the PowerPoint ready.

Wednesday 08th June 2011 for this week, one of my goals werer to continue working on the powerpoint for the day of the presenting was near. I then contunued getting information to include in my presentation alongside Cheri.

Wednesday 15th June 2011 By today our group had finished everything besides the scarffold. so the only thing remained was to present our presentation. we then went and presented our tpic to the class and onother group followed. the only thing remained was to finish the scarffol and to orgonise our bolder that had everything in it. when the two groups finished presenting, the teacher talked to us about any ways that we could have improved.

By Izzy