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Week 1 1/07/2011, Friday, Lesson 5

__Journal Keeping__ - ==‍At least once a week reflect on ==


 * 1) ==‍What have you achieved in your learning? ==
 * 2) ==‍What you want to achieve/ goals and future directions? ==
 * 3) ==‍Positives/ successful moments in your research? What did you enjoy the most? ==
 * 4) ==‍Negatives/ limitations/ problems in your research? ==
 * 5) ==‍What was the hardest parts to research? How can you overcome this in the future? ==
 * 6) ==‍What skills did you learn in this Research? ==
 * 7) ==‍Interesting comments? ==

Ms Woud invited me to her wiki and then I had to sign up an account. Learnt about the 'Wonder Wheel' and other searching methods. Started learning about the 6 steps of RBL. The 6 steps of RBL (Resourced Base Learning) are: Define, Locate, Select, Organize, Present, Evaluate. An easier way to remember that is DLSOPE.

Define: > Read your assignment instructions Write the question in your own words > Identify key terms > Brainstorm > Wikipedia Other resources > Recording the details > Keywords are an effective way to research in library catalogues and online search engines. Use keywords to skim and scan text and now you can quickly decide whether the informtion you're lloking at is useful. > Assessment criteria - Teachers use assessment criteria to make sure they mark all students' work against the same standards Locate: No matter what the resource or where it is, subject-specific keyword lists can really help you refine your search. > Specialised websites and databases can help to focus your research by looking at particular groups of resources instead of the entire web. They also limit your search by topic, miedia type or website format. > Newspaper and journal articles are really usful resources, particularly when you need information about specialised topic. > people - talking to people in your community is one of the best ways to get unique material thata no one else will have access to. > organisations - members of community organisations are usually keen to promote their cause and may even have information packs designed for students. > Sstate and nationaly libraries are now digitising rare and fragile documents and other printed material for online use. > Public libraries make a lot of their information available online, so it's easy to reserve a book, access catalogues and search other libraries, without leaving your computer. Organize: Paraphrasing - when you paraphrase, you re-write what you've read in your own words using most of the key words from the text. Summarising - recording the key points from the text. > read the text first to get the gist of it, then start taking notes on the second read > only record information that relates to your assignment question > Use headings in your notes, so they're easier to skim through later > Use dot points instead of full sentences and keep thenm short - one or two sentences is fine > Use abbreviations or your own symbols for common words > Highlighting and annotation Copy, paste, summarise > Online note taking applications Present:
 * //Understanding the question//
 * //Use what I know//
 * //Background reading//
 * //Develop keywords//
 * //Planning the final product//
 * //Using keywords//
 * //Helpful sites & data bases//
 * //Newspapers & journals//
 * //People & organisations//
 * //Primary sources online//
 * //Library services//
 * Recording quotes
 * Note-taking tips
 * Note taking styles

Evaluate:

'Continued 4/07/2011, Monday, Lesson 4


 * __Week 2__**
 * __sonya is awesome, i wish i was awesome as her :) love daved lol jokes sonya wrote this herself!__**

5/07/2011, Tuesday Working on 'Attachment 4: Research Skills Exercise' Continued 7/07/2011, Thursday

//__What has been the impact of wheat and bread on western culture?__// 1. Try and think of give different (but related questions that might be areas of research under this broad heading: a. Western cutlures impact on wheat. b. Impact of bread on western culture. c. What has been the impact of wheat and bread on aboriginal culture? d. What has been the impact of wheat abnd bread on Australia culture?

2. If you wanted to find out which were the most commonly eaten types of bread in Australia through an internet search, waht key words or phrases would you use? a. commonly eaten bread b. popular bread c.best tasting bread 3. Go on-line and try to find an answer to the question in "2". Was it easy to find useful information? not very easy 4. The following page (web-link) gives you information about the many different kinds of bread. http;//www.gograins.com.au/grainsnutrition/ns/ns9_3.html a. grainsnutrition b.www.gograins.com.au c. 5. I picked this decision because the site talked alot about wheat and had a whole category list of what is wheat, how it's made and they're actually a company for wheat. 6.

keep up the excellent work... djevan

__**Week 3**__ This week we learnt more about note taking like how to effectively take notes from an article. By getting the keywords you can write about alot of things. We got given an article and another sheet where we had to write down the main keywords and write something small but relevant to the keyword from the article. __**Week 4**__ During week 4 we continued doing the Wheat sheet because some people still havn't finished it. __**Week 5**__ I didn't do much this week because some people still worked on the Wheat sheet and I finished so I decided to start researching some topics for my groups research project. __**Week 6**__ Finally started the actual researching this week. My group that consist of Quy and myself have chosen DJ. Another group decided to help us because our teacher helped us think of something we can do with the topic DJ. We can host our own event somewhere at school. __**Week 7**__ This week I started to research about how much money DJing would make. How much money would I earn a night from a club etc.


 * REMEMBER TO COMPLETE YOUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL**


 * Define ** **areas** **Research Proposal**
 * Outline initial ideas for research
 * Identifies how you considered, your topic
 * Explain your choice of capability and it’s relevance
 * Identify processes for working collaboratively
 * Methods of appropriate research processes (valid, ethical and manageable).
 * Develop a timeline

First I was planning to research about Kim Jong Il which I thought of after watching this documentary of life in North Korea and I found it really interesting. But then Quy had thought of doing DJ so we were talking about it and then Mr Frangos gave us a great idea. Which was at the end of our research we should put on a Disco of some sort for the year 8, 9, 10s which would be really fun to host. So we decided we would do DJ. We then had to ask ourself a main question each to research about DJ. Tan chose to do all the technology stuff, while I chose to do the money side of it. While Quy did the practical things. How much money will they be making? Our plan is to in term 4 make a disco for year 8,9,10 and let Quy DJ at it. While Tan and I do the setting up of it. We have another team helping us out with the marketting side of it. This is one heck of a plan and I hope we can do it. We just need to commit to it. The most paid DJs are paid by their rank on the list. So basically the more people know about you, the more famous you are is the amount of money you will be making if you DJ. By getting your reputation up with the community and making a big impresion of yourself, you can make quite a lot of money. But the hard part is getting up the list with all the competition there is. The most paid DJ is the ranked 1 DJ which is **David Guetta**. On special occasions he gets paid over $25,000 an hour. That's how much a ranked 1 DJ gets paid. Just imagine how much the top 10 get paid.
 * __ Research Proposal __**

Term 4 Week 1 Today I was researching more about DJ's finance. Like how much would they make and I found out it depends on how known you are, time and day, and the place. So a DJ's finance is quite random. On Tuesday, our double lesson, Theo came in to talk to us. He's an event manger and a dj. He's been djing for almost a year now and have been studying event managing while having a job as one. He's hosting an underaged event in December and asked us to be promotors if we want.

Week 2 This week we just continued working to finish our final product of what we've been researching about. I've been finding out alot more about DJ's finance. I find it really fascinating how a DJ can make so much. For example David Guetta, a very famous DJ gets paid aorund $30,000+ for a night, or sometimes even an hour.

Week 3 During this week we were getting ready for our performance on the 27th which was on Thursday. Quy was practicing DJing with Mr Fragos's equipment, while tan and myself were learning how to set things up. When Thursday arrived, we all met up at lower penny half an hour before lunch. The performance was in front of the canteen.

Tuesday, 27th of October, was the day our group hosted a DJ performance for the school for Quy and Mag to practice their DJing skills whilst Tan and I practiced setting up equipment and recording the performance. The people who participated in making this event are Mr Frangos, Quy, Mag, Muhammed, Tan, Andrew, Kaine, Sean and myself. The event started at lunch which is 12:50, but we all met in Mr Frangos's class in lower penny at 12:30 to get things set up before the performance. My job in this was to record the performance which was tiring because my hand was up the whole time trying to get everyone in the video. Kaine and Andrew were the hosts of the show giving out raffle tickets which later were drawn and the prizes were tickets to an event that Theo is hosting called, Summer Nights which is an underaged. Two tickets were given out to 2 lucky winners. Quy and Mag were the DJ's and each of them had 10minutes to pump the crowd up with their music. Quy was first to start with his choice of music which is Electro/House but he started off with "Without you," by David Guetta and Usher. This song is very popular to our age group and it actually did pump up the crowd and get more people around. After Quy, it was Mag's turn to get the crowd even more excited with his RnB. After Mag's turn we had a special guest who just recently graduated year 12. Lil' Saint was going to rap for us with his own song. During this time I was recording everyone and everything that was going on. People dancing, the Dj's, and the crowd. It was an exciting day for us to beable to host something cool like this. We have to give a special thanks to Mr Frangos for everything he has done for us. He gave us the idea for this and even lent us some of his equipment. He even brang in a guest for us to learn more about DJing and event managing. Overall thanks to him we got everything done.
 * __SPRINGDAZE EVENT!__**

(Mr Frangos helping our DJs set up)

(At the end of lunch we al took a picture together)

Week 4 On Monday we were getting on with our task with completing our research about our topics. On Tuesday I didn't attend class because I had to go to my VET course at Henley High School. On Thursday we continued our work to get it completed. Friday absent.

Week 5. Monday - Today we're getting ready for our oral presentation for Friday. Applying finishing touches and trying to finish this before the due date to get it over and done with.