Journal+Entry-+Hieu

Term 1 week 1

2/2/11 Wednesday Lesson 5&6 On Term 1 week on a Wednesday we had double integrated learning on that lesson Mr Stav introduced us to wikispace where we had to join his wikispace group with his email invitation but I had a problem with my email i couldn't log onto my email. I went to Mr Stav and asked him what was wrong with my account he then wrote me a note and said go to the IT office and get it fixed, so i hurried to the IT office but there was no one inside the office so i went back to J28 and told Mr Stav he then told me to go to Mr Winen at the technology centre, in his office when i got there I checked the office but he wasn't there so i asked Mr Jay he told me he would probably be in the photography center I than quickly walked to the photography center but the teacher wasn't Mr Winen so i went back to Mr Stav he then told me to wait till an IT teacher was in the IT office. After the 5th lesson i went to the IT office to see if any IT teachers were there surprisingly a IT teacher was there I than showed him my note from Mr Stav and he asked for my ID number, he then changed my password to `school' i said thanks and went back to J28.

When i got back to Integrated learning Mr Stav told us to save the subject starter pack onto our home drives. He than handed out a booklet called learning styles after getting the booklet i quickly skimmed through it than Mr Stav told us to to either join a group or make 1 with the maximum of 4 people and minimum of 3, but i couldn't think of what group to join. I hope in the next couple of lesson i will join a group with people with the same interest as me, than the bell rang he told us to do the learning styles booklet for homework.

4/2/11 Friday lesson 3 During the lesson we finished of our learning styles booklet if we haven't done it for homework i quickly skimmed through the questions and filled it in and plotted the points and connected them i was really surprised that i was a analytic learner. After that Mr Stav told us visit the Stage 1 research and save the file subject starter pack to our home drive and start answering the questions and choose 5 areas that interest you, than the bell rang i went off to my next lesson.

Term 1 week 2 7/2/11 Monday lesson 1 Todays lesson i felt really excited to choose my 5 areas that interested me and make a focus question on the topic and produce questions on the topic, on the file subject starter pack the 5 areas i choose were math, computers, video games, movies and mangas. 9/2/11 Wednesday Lesson 5&6 Today we formed our groups, My group members included Aymon, Bradley, peter and myself and we choose a topic the topic we choose was `Games and the effect on society'. I also found out what type of learner i was, the results showed i was Analystic learner. After forming groups Mr Stav told the class to choose a topic for your group, my group choose to do `Video games', than Mr Stav told us to reference 3 books that he put at the front desk with the `referencing generator' the link to the generator was [].





11/2/11 Friday lesson 3 During the lesson I spent a lot of time on updating my subject starter pack by making 5 questions for my 5 areas of interest the questions i came up with were the questions were:


 * Why is math a popular subject in high school?
 * What is the percentage of people that own a computer?
 * What kind of video games is popular?
 * Why are Movies these days more downloaded rather than getting purchased?
 * What country makes the most manga?

If you would like to see more of my subject starter pack i done please open file below -

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Term 1 week 3 14/2/11 Monday lesson 1 During the lesson Mr Stav went through how to start our research project, he said we could do a poster, report or a movie. He then loaded a movie for us explaining how to do the research project the movie went for roughly 10 minutes it was a really good movie showing and telling us how to start our project as it tells us tips on how to overcome difficulties that we would encounter through the project.

15/2/11 Tuesday lesson 3 Today we watched a power point explaining what primary and secondary sources were, after watching it understood what primary and secondary sources were primary sources were evidence that was first hand such as diaries, news paper, Video recordings, tape recordings and more and secondary sources were evidence that were second hand that were interpreted for example biographies, history books, text books, journal/ magazines, documentaries. The power point sideshow absolutely helped me understand what primary and secondary sources were.

16/2/11 Wednesday lesson 5&6 During the 1st lesson our group gathered and choose the method we were gonna use to do the research project, we voted on what method to use the final outcome of votes were decided to do an essay.

Term 1 Week 4 21/2/11 Monday lesson 1 Today my group setted up a survey on [|www.surveymonkey.com] and produced some questions the link to doing our survey is []. The questions we came up with were: *Have you played video games? *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: *Do you believe there should be an R18+ rating for video games? *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?
 * -Video games **
 * -Movies **
 * -television **
 * -music **
 * -sport **

Term 1 Week 5 28/2/11 Monday lesson 1

Today i have finally started on my concept map it was meant to be started at week 3 but i totally forgot about it so i decided to finish it off this week, at the beginning of my concept map i couldn't think of an idea so i browsed through other peoples journal and so I could get an idea of how to start the concept map. Suddenly i went onto ``Bradly's '' journal and took some ideas of his concept map because we were in the same group, i reckon he wouldn't mind me taking some of his ideas ;) . I Suddenly realized that the bell rang and i quickly saved and logged off.

2/2/11 Wednesday Today was sports day so didn't have double integrated research project. :(

4/2/11 Friday Today i continued with my concept map, the concept map was unfortunately unable to be finished during the lesson so i hope i would finish it on Mondays lesson.

Term 1 Week 6 7/3/11 Monday Lesson 1 I was quite excited for this lesson because i had confidence that i would finish my concept map this lesson, surprisingly i actually was able to finish it I'm so happy :D.

Term1 week 7

15/3/11 Tuesday lesson 3 During today's lesson we had Ms Miller she showed us our grades, the average grade i got was about a C+. The rest of the lesson i continued with updating my journal.

16/3/11 Wednesday lesson 5&6 Today was a double Integrated project, during the double lesson i planned on updating my journal for the first lesson and continue with my research that i haven't done for a while. Unfortunately during the second lesson Mr Stav told our group to fix up our concept map because it missed out on some important sources and to make the colour of the boxs of primary and secondary sources the same colour.

17/3/11 Thursday Lunch time During Lunch time today i was in the library i was a bit bored so i decided to check out the wiki spaces discussions page to see if their was any surveys to do suddenly i stumbled across a page called "missionary work" so I decided to do it but it was a bit difficult because i didn't really know what missionary work was until i looked at Jehu's explanation than i learnt a bit about missionary work after completing the survey i gave some feed back as seen in the picture below.

Near the end of lunch i found another survey called "Alcohol" i went on it but i suddenly relised that it had no link so I posted "Put link here????" As shown in the picture below, that was my lunch browsing through the discussions.

18/3/11 Friday lesson 3 During today's integrated learning lesson the school had a power failure which caused all the computers to not work, Mr Stav decided to call each of the groups up to speak about their progress and focus questions and the minimum time was 2 minutes.



Term 1 week 8 22/3/11 Tuesday lesson 3 Today for our integrated learning we had Ms miller during this lesson i decided to have a slack off and look through the discussions page and i stumbled across a survey called "Science" it sounded interesting so I clicked on the link and stumbled across a error the error was there was a question getting repeated twice to I posted it on the page telling the owner of the survey to change it. Here's a picture to show you below is the picture

Than i posted this on the page:

23/3/11 Wednesday lesson 5& 6 Today our group finished making our final concept map because the older concept map was quite difficult to understand what we had to do for our question in our previous concept map. After fixing up the concept map i got a bit bored so i went on the discussions page to see if there was any feedback for my survey that i created when I went to the post i posted a fellow class member was generous enough to gimme some feed back here is a screen shot of the discussion between us

After reading this i quickly went on my survey to change the question SaraChan3 suggested because i really liked Sarachan3 suggestion.

During the second lesson Mr Stav asked for everybody's attention to show us how use google advanced search.

Step 1- go to google search for anything

Step 2- click advanced search as shown in picture below in orange box

Step 3-Now it will lead you to this page

Step 4- Once your here you can you can enter key words in the red box and the preferred website in the blue box for example you only want sites with .edu at the end then you type edu in the blue box



Step 5- if you chose to type edu in than this is the outcome, all the websites will be edu sites.

Mr Stavs demo of using google advanced search was really handy because most of the .com sites weren't as helpful as the .edu sites or the .org sites which made it more efficient and faster to find better information.

Term1 week9 28/3/11 Monday lesson 1 This morning my group and I gathered up together to discuss about the scaffold and producing an hypothesis, the hypothesis we created was  (Video games have a “detrimental” effect in the “wrong” hands. If played rationally, video games are no longer capable of “corruption”). for the rest of the lesson our group worked together on the scaffold and Aymon shared the copy of that scaffold with the group than we all went back to our computers to continue our own guiding question and the other questions in the scaffold.

30/3/11 Wednesday This afternoons lesson I gathered my group up to my computer and told them i found a interesting documentary about gaming addiction but unfortunately the school blocked youtube so i told them to check it out when they got home, the videos are shown below but it has 3 parts to it, this was quite interesting to share with my group because it talks about gaming addiction and how kids start developing gaming addiction and much more. I got these from this website http://hight3ch.com/video-game-addiction-documentary/.

Part1:

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For the rest of the lesson i continued with my scaffold.

Week 10 4/4/11 Monday lesson 1 This morning i spent most of the time collaborating with my group members to finish the scaffold off but unfortunately we didn't have enough time in the lesson.

6/4/11 Wednesday lesson 5 &6 Today i have finally finished my part of the scaffold and combined it with Aymons although he haven't finish some bits and I also need to combine it with Bradly's, Also Peter but he has gone to some work experience as he told me in week 9 so I reckon that Peters part of the Scaffold wouldn't have been completed. The scaffold below is what is done for the moment until Peter comes back and combine it with Bradly's and paste it onto my scaffold than it will be finalized. During this lesson i also found that Bradly posted a very interesting website about "gaming addiction symptoms" i was so pleased to read it it was great team colaboration so i decided to thank Bradly as shown in the picture below:

8/4/11 Friday lesson 3 Today i posted my survey that i conducted the results are below:







Throughout this terms research project i have learnt many important things such as using google advanced search, conducting a survey and understanding what .net, .org, .com and .edu meant. (.edu) stands for educational websites that are mostly commercial free, (.org) stands for organization and (.com) stands for commercial and (.net) stands for network.I have learnt also how to collaborate with my group members as well as communicating with other class mates in the discussion area, giving opinion and thoughts about their surveys and communication with them. But I do admit that I slack off a bit talking to Bradly and mucking around for some of my lessons in integrated learning, but i do continue with my research project once i get home if i don't have any other homework. This term we also had an interesting teacher Mr Stav although I do admit sometimes he explains things a bit weird but sometimes his quite interesting the way he explains things.



Term 2

Week 1 2/5/11 Monday Lesson 1 Today was the first day back to school and we had a a ssemble therefore we didn't attenbd our first lesson. The first week back we had Ms lawless as our integrated learning teacher for the rest of the term. For the rest of this week we continued with our scaffolds.

Week 2 This week we updated our journals and made a start to our power point presentation. Our group had a good start on our power point Bradley was in charge of it until the rest of our group catched up on their scaffolds but unfortunately Peter in our group was very lazy that he couldn't be bothered starting his scaffold after Aymon and I explained it to him more than once.

Week 3 This week we have made a great start to our power point for example the introduction was nice becuase it had a list of various games that are popular. Our introduction included What is gaming addiction with many other slides. I will be posting the power point presentation next week. For the rest of the week Aymon and I finished our scaffold but bradly is not quite done and Peter hasn't even bothered to start as usual.

Week 4 This week we have done alot on our power point presentation as said last week i will be posting the power point document here which was mostly contributed by Aymon, Bradley and I, as Peter did nothing just layed back and mucked around with other people in the class.

Week 5 Our Goal this week is to finish all our scaffolds at least but the main problem is peter not doing any work but i believe and possiblly finish at least half of our power point presentation.