Brad's+Journal+entry

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= WEEK 1 =

Because i was sick for most of the first week of school my journal will start on friday.

**Friday week 1:** I finally joined the class and Mr Stavliotis ran me through the basics of Wikispaces and shown me what to do for my stage 1 research project. i chose a subject and designed an ideas chart as below, i used a program called inspiration i used to use a while ago so i knew how to use it properly and efficiently. my idea for the subject ended up to be about driving at a young age and what are the disadvantages and advantages. Mr Stav instructed us to find the performance standard rubric by using a search engine to find 'Future SACE'/ 'SACE' or anything related to the subject. This search lead us to the SACE website where we were then informed on what we were going to do work about. = WEEK 2 =

**Monday week 2:** Today, we were informed about our research project and told that we can have a group of 2 to 4. I chose to group up with Hieu Tran, Peter Pasca and Aymon Fox because we knew eachother pretty well and i would feel comfortable working around them. we then started brainstorming our ideas to find a topic.

**Tuesday Week 2:** Today we had Ms Millar as our teacher. Nothing really interesting happened, the only thing we done was research. we chose our topic to be about games and their effects on society because we were interested about what happens to people that play too much games. Our group all agreed that we would find interest in this topic and hope to do well in it.

**Wednesday week 2:** Today, i asked Mr Stav for comfirmation about if we were all working on a singular topic, seeing as how on my other sheet of paper i chose to work on a different topic. Mr Stav informed me that we were indeed working on 1 project in a group and i am now glad that there is no confusion about my research project. Today, we also were instructed to practice referencing in the Widget located in the homepage ([]). i was told to research 3 books and here is my evidence of understanding <<<<<<<<

= WEEK 3 =

**Monday week 3**: Today Mr Stav informed us that we were going to have to choose our guiding questions for our research project. i came to the conclusion that my question will be "What is a video game" with an in depth look on the subject. Seeing as how we were away on friday due to a year level day i knew that we were going to have to work harder to keep up with the time. some students needed to get their ID photos taken so we had to work around the classmates schedule.

**Tuesday week 3:** Today, we had Ms Miller as our teacher for the lesson and she decided to show us some youtube clips to pass the time. The youtube clips were all about the research project that we are working on and how we should be setting it out. i found out things such as your research project may include recordings, magazines newspaper, audio recordings, letters, notes, photographs, interviews and other stuff on those lines.

**Wednesday week 3:** Aymon, Peter, Hieu and I all finished choosing our questions for our research project and we all started researching our projects. the table below shows our finished questions.

Aymon - What are the opions of people in regard to video games and their effects? Hieu - Why do people play games and what are the potential side effects? Brad - What are the causes of video game addiction? Peter - What are the effects of gaming addiction? We all thought these were appropriate questions for our project.

**Friday week 3:** Today, Mr Stav told us all about a program called survey monkey, a site where you can make your own surveys and get people to fill them in and get feedback from others. me and Hieu were making a survery when we found out that aymon had already finished it, so we joined both of our surverys together to make more questions. after we finished our survey we asked various people to complete it for us, after a few minutes we went and seen the results, to our surprise it was very even on each end making us realise that not everybody thinks that video games are good for people. = = = WEEK 4 =

**Monday week 4:** Today we rewatched a video informing us about what the research project is about and what it will do for us in the future. i also started doing another concept map because we felt that our old concept map did not cover enough of our project. while i was working on our concept map Hieu and Aymon decided to make a survey on a site called surveymonkey.com. Survey monkey is a free site that allows you to make a survey fast and easily so you can get your findings back as quick as possible. our questions were as followed.

*Have you played video games? *Do you believe there should be an R18+ rating for video games? **Tuesday week 4:** Today i learnt that we only had to do a journal at least once a week.
 * How old are you?
 * do you feel video games have an effect on the way people behave?
 * do you feel video games have bad effect to society?
 * Which of the following do you believe has a stronger influence on society and it's behavior:
 * -Video games **
 * -Movies **
 * -television **
 * -music **
 * -sport **
 * Do you believe the lack of an R18+ rating for video games has a negative effect on society?
 * do you think the lack of an adult rating, which can lead to a game being banned has a negative impact on the production and retail industries?
 * Do you believe all forms of media should come under equal classification (rating) and censorship laws?

= WEEK 5﻿ =
 * Monday week 5: ** Today, me and Hieu finished off our concept map. we could not think of many ideas so we looked at other peoples journals to see what they have done. we made a big concept map and we made it look nice. the lesson went pretty quick for some reason so we only managed to get the concept map done in the lesson.


 * Tuesday week 5: ** Today i spent most of the lesson completing other peoples surveys. most of my group was away for that day so i just wanted to help other people out. thank god today wasn't a double lesson or else i would of been bored out of my mind!

**Wednesday week 5:** today was sports day so we could not do anything research today.

RESEARCH AREA :D

= This is our concept map. =



MY RESEARCH SCAFFOLD *Not finished*



References for Scaffold so far.

- Surveys - [] - Online interview []