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Today was my first time in integrated study. Our teacher Mr. Stavliotis introduced us to the topic and what it's all about. He showed us a website called wikispaces. It was to be our main portal for publishing any related work as well as record our progress. As this was our fist lesson it was filled with many introductions to the course. Also Mr. Stavliotis was new to this so he we were on the same ride as him. Our first assigned task was to complete a Learning Styles questionnaire. This was to help form our groups of different style learners. Fortunately I was close to being evenly spaced but leaned towards the second quadrant more.======

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Today in Integrated Study I made an account after receiving an invite from the Mr. Staliotis. During the two lesson I was exploring and familiarising myself with the tools and features wikispaces has to offer. When I had signed up I gained access to many features this web site offers, including editing and creating pages. It also seems discussion topics can be created so that if I have any questions fellow students can reply. Mr. Stavliotis also told us to start on the [|Starter Pack]. This was to help refine ideas and create a topic with suitable questions. While doing this I came up with some areas of interest but did not get so far.======

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Today I learned that the topic chosen by each person in the group was to remain exclusive to to them only. So basically we work in the same group on different topics. I was utterly confused especially when the teacher confirmed this. It made no sense to me to be in a group, I found it completely pointless. Most people were confused and angry as well.======

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Today Mr. Stavliotis showed us a video of how to structure our topic question and create a 'Thesis'. The video was of another school. It showed me a number of formats our final product could be presented in.======

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Today we had Ms. Miller. She is our permanent relief teacher in Tuesdays. We were given instructions on the board about what to do. By then we had come up with a topic and form a group. I was with Ian. During that lesson I did a new Starter Pack after deciding to scratch my first topic. Today's lesson went by fast all I was doing was the starter pack.======

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Today in integrated study Mr. Stavliotis revealed to us that he had made an error with how groups work. Instead of working in a group on separate topics we were actually meant to do the opposite. When he explained to us the error he made I was relieved. After his apology speech he assigned us a task to do: reference books. This task was to be completed by the end of the double lesson.======

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During the first lesson I discussed with Ian, again, about possible topics (since the teacher told us we can work on the same one now) and areas of interest we are keen on researching and learning more about. We choose 'Animation'. A few moments later Rohan, who was sitting next to me, asked if he could join our group. After some careful thinking we decided to accept. Once everything about **THE TOPIC** was explained to Rohan he confessed and told us he knew nothing about 'Animation' and that he wasn't all that thrilled and interested in it. So instead of exiling Rohan from our group we agreed to change to a topic that would suit all of us. The topic came to us from a question we asked ourselves. Is there a way of including 'Animation' as well as an abundance of other things in one topic? .Yes, we thought of one. The topic we all decided on doing was 'Modern Society and Technology'. It was perfect because it fit all of our desires.======

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During the second lesson I did some solo work on the main focus of today's lesson. I choose three books to reference in the Harvard Referencing System format. The website I used was listed at the bottom if this wiki's home page or if you're lazy []. It was pretty straight forward all I learned all I had to do was find out what type of media you were referencing then enter some information in a generator then BAM it was referenced with the click of a button.======

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__**Week 3**__

//14/2/11 Moday // Today I could not get much done in class as I had to have my photo taken for my I.D.

//15/2/2011 Tuesday // Today ms miller showed the class videos about primary and secondary resources. There were a variety of resources shown in the video. I thought some were kind of weird the way it was presented but I didn’t mind after a while. I gained knowledge on how to identify between secondary and primary resources thank to the video. I also learn't that a news paper article that dates back years is considered a primary resource [due to not having any other records due to the time factor] and that recent articles can be both depending on the way the article is set up, for instance if the writer wrote from first hand experience then it is considered a primar resource but if it was a recount of some other event not particuly experienced, only rather a recount of someone elses, is a secondary source of information.

//16/2/2011 Wednesday // In the first lesson Mr. Stavliotis called up groups to ask and talk about or focus questions and guiding questions. I then went to the home page as insructed and looked at the group tables. I then gathered with the group and we came upt with quetions to fill in the gaps. I learnt this was needed to be well thought of as we are trying to inform others about our topic instead of regurgitating information given to us. In the second lesson we continued discovering what questions were to be used.

//Friday, 18/2/2011 Friday // Today I learned how to make a survey on ‘Survey Monkey’. Rohan made the account then we thought of questions to ask others based on our topic. The site had a lot of tools and ways the questions we asked to be answered. There were multiple choice, explaination, ranking and a whole lot more. I was unfamilar and found it hard to use so we stayed to only multiple choice and explaination questions. I guess the other tools would be useful in other types of surveys though.


 * __Week 4 __**

//21/2/2011 Monday// Today I continued coming up with questions for the survey. Rohan, Ash and Ian helped as well. We also focused on our focus question at hand. By the end of the lesson we were able to complete our survey. With my account I posted the link on the disscussion board on the home page. I was learning how to change the themes of the survey itself. I found it quite entertaining for some odd reason though.

//22/2/2011 Tuesday// Our group then gathered and decided to create a second survey after learning the other one did not contain enough relevant information concerning our topic. We decided that to maintain focus we were to look at our topic title. So we did this and though of more better and inproved questions. Mr. Stavliotis also gave us some input. Of course instead of just focusing on our survey we filled in others offered from groups.

//23/2/2011 Wednesday // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today we spent some time filling in more surveys as well as anlyzing our own results. To do this we logged into 'Survey Monkey' and cliicked on the results list. The results were given in a graph format and others as sentences for those we asked for people to explain.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25/2/2011 Friday // Today I explained to Rohan that we needed to keep some hard-copy of things as evidence later. I felt confidence building up when doing this.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 5 **__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week was a busy week as there was sports day. I do recall getting told by Vinh that according to Sace website, Journal entries are a sumary of one week. In my opiniong this was much easier than writing on a day-to-day basis. We also had trouble claifying our focus question so we got Mr. Stavliotis for assistance. Rohan was also tasked in completing our resource map while Ian and myself were doing the questions map. Ash was looking up information.


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Week 6 __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week Mr. Stavliotis showed us an estimate of our grades and told us what was required for an ‘A’ grade. I learnt more today about how we were to be marked based on the 4 capabilities; Communication, Personal Development, Work, and Learning. We also came tho a concluded focus question '**How has technology made saving lives more effective than before?**'. But it was not long until we had to change, as <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">we had a major change in our topic because we learned it was a little too broad so our group refined the topic to a more health related one. I learned that we should really be collabrative wih eachother because were wern't so and the result was starting againg. We were given a scaffold.


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Week 7 __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">During this week we had an oral presentation, which we discussed to the class about what we were up to. This might of been due to a black out, but I am not sure. Mr. Stavliotis also gave us some statistics to work on. I learned about what makes a good presentation, e.g. eye contact, clear voice, etc. We were also learnign audience skills because we had to listen to other grougs as well. Oh and another thing I learned was Rohan talks a lot plus we shoud not fiddle with our hands out hold them in a professional possisiton like '_/\_ ' (hand position).

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Week 8 **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This week we were tought how to use GOOGLE Advanced Search on Google. It involved choosing options to make the searchfield for refined. I think this option will be useful especially if I want to find the right type of information. Other thing that was completed was our Questions map which can be seen below. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This is google advance search, there are fields that help refine the search so that information that is garbage is desposed and only relevant information is given.

This week was all about completing everthing and having it ready. The main focuses were the scaffold and resources map. Ian and Rohan were also chosen to inform the class on how to do the scaffold proparly. I was satisfied with this as I can ask them anytime if I were in trouble. I also assigned everyone a question to research some information about. Rohan was unable to complete the resource map so I completed it using the knowledge I gained in week 3.
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Week 9 __**

I've found in hard to updated or check my page regularly as I don't have a constant connection to the internet at the moment even though this subject is online based.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__ Research __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__ ﻿ __ **Scaffold Year 11**

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Research Report Scaffold __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Introduction __<span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BODY /ANALYSIS __ <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">1st Guiding / focus questions answered. <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Background information <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Comparison and synthesis of source materials <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Analysis ad evaluation of evidence <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">A summary of research <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Connection between hypothesis and research

__<span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">CONCLUSION __

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCE LIST __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Harvard Reference System of all Primary and Secondary resources used in your research.

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research Report Scaffold __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> (Unsure if Others have done theres)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Guiding/ focus questions <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1. How has medical related technology been implemented into day to day activities? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Does technology contribute so much we cant live without it? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology on our health? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">4. How has technolgy made saving lives more effective than before?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Proposed METHODS <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">1. We are to conduct surveys. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">2. Use books from the library. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">3. Gather statistics and data from the internet. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">4. Primary, Secondary resources. 5. Communicate with the teacher. 6. Ask the class members if they have any ideas about our research related topic that they would like to share.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">A //reason// for the //choice of research//, indicating an appreciation for the significance of the research. The reason why I chose **"Modern Society and technology impacts on health"** as my topic was because I was interested in the technology side if things. But as I gradually got more exposed to the health side I became interested in researching in both areas and how modern society and technology impacts on our health. Other main reasons for this choice was to inform and give ideas and knowledge on this topic to others.

__**4. How has technology made saving lives more effective than before?**__

<span style="background-color: #ff7878; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Background information

There has been computers used South America that keeps track of patient records and manage care. It has shown that this arrangement has seen lower death rates, complications and costs. Patients that were treated in hospitals ranked highest in use of information technology were 15 percent less likely to die. The technology was used to manage the patient’s record and physician notes.

It has been said that the increase of using information technology was linked to both lower costs and better outcomes. Test in up to 41 hospitals in Texas has also been conducted with positive outcome.

Cat Scans have also made it possible to see inside the human body. CAT scans show differences between normal and abnormal tissue. NMNRI, invented in 1973 in the United States, uses radio waves to show a cross section of tissue as images as well as 3 dimensional images of a body from the inside.

Other tools which prove to be useful as saving lives include the pace maker; a tiny machine that controls heartbeat and is implanted underneath the skin, The Artificial heart; invented in 1992, this device is a replica of the human heart which pumps blood for up to 16 weeks and serves as a temporary heart until a donor can be found.

<span style="background-color: #ff7878; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comparison and synthesis of source materials

Those highlighted in yellow were found from the website marked *1, these in green and blue from books. All are listed in references. There was a hard comparison between the resources as the books were published in the 90s and the article, 2 years old. But as this is a question of saving more lives than before it was acceptable to put in both information as it was in less than a 50-60 year difference.

<span style="background-color: #ff7878; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Analysis and evaluation of evidence

All of the information where thoroughly checked most were from a book which can only be published publicly if it had through and true information. The website is different as it is hard to tell if sites online are true or not. I do believe, though, that this information is good as it was in the news section of my search.

<span style="background-color: #ff7878; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A summary of research

Using books and the internet; all secondary resources, I was able to find that information technology and other apparatus such as artificial hearts, pace makers, and different types of scanners have made saving lives and maintain health more easier than, say, 100-200 years ago where technology like this did not exist.

<span style="background-color: #ff7d7d; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Connection between hypothesis and research

The connection between this research and the hypothesis can be seen because saving lives does mean that if this is possible those who become ill or so can be saved by some of these means; thus they get healthier and sustain that with technologies aid.

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__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources: __ //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Books<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> // <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Davies & Watt, E & S 1994, //Inventions: A Visual History,// Dorling Kindersley Book, Australia <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wood, R 1995, //Great Inventions,// A Little Ark Book, Australia. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Briscoe, D 1994, //Scrolls to Computers,// Dragon's World Ltd., Great Britain. - This Book has not been very helpful since the change in topic.

//Websites:// [] *2 [] *2 [] [] [] *1 [] *1 [] *1

Documents: Statistics given to us by Mr. Stavliotis; In my book. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This resource can be used for questions such as our Guiding One.

Surveys: [] - Irrelevant [] - Mostly Irrelevant
 * 3rd Survey Pending...*

Refernce for the above two book cover's - **Bridgman R, 1995, //Technology//, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London**

Survey analyses- **Now Irrelevent to our focus Question; ANALYSED by Rohan**



From the above survey analyses, Question 1 "How would you feel if your favourite electrical appliance died?" 60% of the people will say WTF?Why? , 26.7% will be shocked, 13.3% couldn't care less and 0% says glad. This result show that most of the people will react in a negative way and would ask why their favourite electrical appliance died. Question 2 "How many televisions do you have in your household?" 6.7% said 1, 26.7% said 2, 33.3% said 3, 20% said 4 and 13.3% said 5 or more. From those results it shows that most of the people that took the survey have an average of 2 or more televisions and most of the people have 3 televisions.



Question 3 "Do you trade in old technology for the new technology?" 33.3% said YES and 46.7% said NO and only 20% said sometimes. This result shows that 46.7% of the people don't recycle there old technology and only 33.3% does. Question 4 "Do you collect or own old(1950-1999) technology?" 26.7% said YES and 73.3% said NO. The result of this question shows that most of the people use the latest, new and 21st centuary technology.





Question 5 for our survey was "why do you use technology? (eg. Fun, Entertainment, etc.)". The responses by the other people are written above. Question 6 "Can you live without technology?" 26.7% people said YES they can. 66.7% people said NO they can't. only 6.7% said probably. Which shows that mostly people cannot live without technology which shows how addictive people are with technology.

Question 7 "Has technology changed for the better or worse? Explain your answer." The results can be seen above, but the conclusion of this answer says that most people think the technology changed for betterment.

*1 Relevent to question '//How has technology made saving lives more effective than before?//' *2 Is relevent to question 'What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology on our health?'