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- In the first two weeks, i created my account on wikispaces website page. - Then, i and my friends decided to be a group in three people. We discuss together and chose the topic focus. - I made a page in my teacher's wiki. Then i put the wonderwheel picture of my topic into my page, so that it will be easy for me to work on my topic. - during theses weeks i have avchieved quite well my research skill. However, i havn't felt comfortable on using wikispaces yet. zi think i need to learnt more about it

Week 1 and 2 (term 3) 25/7/2011 - 5/8/2011 - I focus working on 6 steps of RBL TIA from school intranet. - In addition, i also need to complete the assignmen about research skill "Wheat and Breaf" that handed out. - From these two weeks, i undertand more clearly about the best way to work work on any assignment to get a good mark and quality. - Because of some reasons, i have missed many lesson duing week two, so my work at the present is bit slower than other's. - During working on "Wheat and Bread" assignment, i have learnt that during working on the research on internet, i need to select which resources are correct and reliable

__6 STEPS OF RBL TIA__ 1. Define the task: need to understand clearly what i have been asked to do by: -  Read and take note from the intruction to work out the questions that have been asked. - Think about what i have already known about the question/topic. - List the resources where i can look for information. - Make a plan how my final product is gonna look like.

2. Locate information: make a list of resources, people that can help me about my task - Find the key words of the task which will help me to find the information easily. - Some good resources that can be used including government websites, magazine, journal, book or even asking expert.

3. Select resources: after i get all resoureces, i need to read them to select which one is useful and accuarte. .  - Evaluating (information/website/image) to know clearly the creator or basic information of the resources. 4. Organise notes: organising information by taking notes makes it quicker and easier to write on assignment.

- Sumarising information in our own words. - Taking main point. 5. Present ideas - Understand clearly the purpose. - Plan how our assignment will look like or what will it contain. - Choose the right types of essay to present the work - Decide the way to represent the assignment (writing or performance) 6. Evaluate your work. - Check the spelling., any problem need to be solved. - Ask question to know whether you cover all the information or not. - Using PMI (pluses, minuses, improvement) or Six Thinking Hat to evaluate --- - In this week, i was taking note of "Men Eating Habits". It helps me to understand more how to take note - I also research information about smoking which is currently my topic. However, me and my friends are about to change our topic to something else. It's because we found out that although smoking is a big current issue to our world, it's too general and not a very interesting topic to follow.
 * Week 3 term 3 (7/8-12/8) **

- On Monday, i was doing group work activity. Me, Sophie, Sinjia and Tiffany were in one group and discussed about 8 things we should bring with us if we were going to go to the moon and gave reasons why. From this activity, i have learnt to listen to ther group's opinion and give my own opnion. I have also learnt the way to work in a group so that it could be easier for us to work and discuss. _ In the double lessons on Tuesday, the teacher handed out 3 sheets about Capabilities and SACE to read. We need to follow 5 capabilities which are communication, citizenship, personal development, work and learning to apply them on our work later. - My group was also have a discussion about our topic. ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ - On monday, my group of Shophie, Sijia and me finally decided to do the reseach about Yum Cha, a kind of Chinese food. - On Tuesday, we spent a double lessons to work week the proposal. We decided to device part for each person to work individual, and then join up for fixing. Sijia was away on Tuesday so we couldn't make a deep and clear plan for our proposal. - for some family reasons, i didn't attend the two last lessons so i couln't catch up anything from class. However, i was also working on my proposal plan.
 * Week 4 term 3 (15/8-19/8) **
 * Week 5 term 3 (22/8 - 27/8) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ **

**Week 6 term 3 (29/8 - 2/9)** **-** On Monday, my group had a new member, Tiffany. It made us a bit difficult to divide our work once again. However, we finally organised it fairly. - The proposal will need to be done by the end of this week, so we need to focus more on our work. - I missed out the double lessons on Tuesday because of couselling day, so we mostly worked individually on each part of our proposal. - i tried to finished up my part at the end of Research lesson on Thursday. - Then on Friday, we joined those parts together and handed up the our teacher to check. We've done our proposal on time.

- On Tuesday, i started working on the survey's questions. Firstly, Sophie and me created an account on [|www.surveymonkey.com], - We was just trying to learn how to use survey monkey. - On Thursday, i worked on thinking about the questions. Apparently, we have done a few questions. I think it's a bit difficult for us because this is the first time i make a survey. It's very important that the questions which have been asked will be able to be answered by most people.
 * Week 7 term 3 (5/9 - 9/9) **

- During this week, i keep working on the survey's questions and the budget for our final products. - I needed to organise everything so that my teacher will take and mark it on the following Monday. - On Friday, sophie and i finished up the survey. We decided to print a hard copy to put it in our folder for marking.
 * Week 8 term 3 (12/9 - 16/9) **

- During this week, me and Sophie were trying to invite as many people joining as we could. - Our survey will be done through internet in Facebook page. - We also printed some hard copies of the survey for other people who don't have Faceboook account.
 * Week 9 term 3 **

- There have been many people joining our survey and it is very interesting to look at it - We start to sketch graphs and analyse it. - We have never done analysing before, so it took us very long to firgure out how to do it.
 * Week 10 term 3 **

- At this time, we almost finished analysing our survey. - We startd to think about the way to work on our out line and powerpoint for the oral.
 * Week 1 term 4 **

- After we have finished analysing our survey at the end of double lessons on Tuesday, we now work seperately on our own topic as we had said on our proposal. - My topic are the proper way to enjoy yum cha and places where people can eat delicious yum cha in Adelaide. - Firstly, i started with the way to eat yum cha properly. When i took my research on the internet, i found it very hard to select the reality information as most of the websites which were listed by google only contain people's opinion about yumcha.
 * Week 2 term 4 **

- I finally chose two believable websites about the first part of my first topic, then i started to organise the information and decide what to put in our power point. - I wanted to talk about chopsticks which are the common utensil when eating yum cha and the way to use it properly. - It took me long time to find and understand the information.
 * Week 3 term 4 **

Week 4 term 4 - After searching about chopsticks, I started to look about tea tasting which is one of the most important part of yum cha. In this sub topic, i will comment about the particular meanings of tea to Chinese people. In my oral presentation, i'll also talk about some etiquette of tea tasting - I spent the double lesson to look for information. - After that, i started to taerted to take note and organise the informarion. - My topic also contain the traditional way of ordering yum cha. I was quite happy that i could fing a website which told about the differences between the traditional and the current page of ordering yum cha. From that website, i also had some knowledge that the best way to enjoy yum cha is going with group. I guessed i would use this details for "advice" while doing my oral presentation.

Week 5 term 5 - During this time, i needed to put all information into power point for my oral and write up the oral out line. - I and Sophie also sold some spring rolls for staff and students at school on Thursday at recess time. - On Friday lesson 5, our group did our oral presentation.

- Because of year 11 exam, i handed up my folder to the teacher at the end of week 6 through finance office.

** Proposal **
Initially, we have decided to do our research on smoking but after a few weeks of researching, we found that it is such a big topic and we probably won’t be able to finish it in time. Beside that we have lost our interest in the topic because it is boring as we have seen many presentations about it. So, we went for something simple and unique which is Yum Cha, a Chinese style morning or afternoon tea. Yum Cha is a favorite food for everyone in our research group and that’s why we chose to do our research on it. Besides that, we also chose to do Yum Cha because there is a Chinese member in our group who has a little bit of knowledge about Yum Cha and can speak Chinese fluently which will help to make it easier for us when it comes to the interviews. We have chosen communication, work and learning out of the 5 capabilities for our research project. We have chosen communication because during our research, we are going to interview restaurant owners and get people from different backgrounds to do surveys for us. As we are working in a group for this research project, we will try our best to work well together and achieve high marks. We will need express our opinions, ideas and responsibilities and also do a lot of discussions. During our research process, we will learn many new things which we have never been taught before. We also have the opportunities to explore different ways of learning including in groups, with the class and on our own. As a group of four, we decided to share our work to achieve the goals. Firstly, Sijia will be responsible for writing interview questions. Then she needs to come to some Chinese restaurants to make interview appointments. We believe that this job is very suitable for her because she is Chinese who will have a clearer knowledge about Chinese food and can interact with Chinese people easily.Then Sophie, Tiffany and me will organise the survey and invite people to join throughout internet. Besides that, Tiffany will look for some Chinese food’s recipes and make a cook book for our final product. In addition, my responsibility is to look for the places where people can come to eat Yum Cha in Adelaide and the properly ways to enjoy Yum Cha. Last, Sophie will do a research from internet about its history and basic information such as who discovered it, since when Yum Cha has become famous in Australia. She will also manage the budget for our product. In the last week, we four will borrow school’s kitchen to cook some kinds of food for our final product and work on oral presentation.
 * //__ Initial ideas and topic considering __//**
 * //__ Capabilities __//**
 * //__ Identify processes of working collaboratively __//**


 * //__ Ethnic and Safety __//**

- We will not plagiarise anybody’s work. - We will have consent forms handed out if we want to make an interview or survey. - Make sure our final products which are some kinds of Chinese food will be safe and clean for staff and student to try and judge.


 * //__ Research processes __//**

In this research processes, we: - Look for sources which have both good quality and quantity information. - Decide and choose the most reality and believable information by going to trustful websites. - Make a list of Chinese restaurants to do interviews. We will firstly come to some restaurant in China town where Chinese food is presented the most. - Plan questions for our survey so that it will be much easier for most people to answer. - Also look for some Chinese food recipes from internet so that we will be able to make it for our product.
 * //__ The timeline to achieve this topic will be shown as below: __//**

Term 3: - Form the group of four including Sophie, Sijia, Tiffany and me working together. - Discuss and decide about the topic which will be focused for this subject. - Have a secondary research from books and magazines to understand deeply about background information. - Complete the proposal by the end of week 6. - Decide the way to present our final product and divide work for everyone to achieve the goals. - Working out the budget. - Making interviews of Chinese restaurants. Holiday: - Working on questions for the survey. - Ask as much people from different cultures as possible to join the survey. - Analysis the survey’s result. Term 4: - Spend more time on looking for more information about Yum Cha from the internet. - Organise information which were gathered from interview and survey. - Write up an oral out line and check to make sure that it contains all necessary information. - Prepare the power point slides for oral presentation. - Collect about 5-10 recipes of Chinese food to make cook book for the product. - Cooking and present the product in week 5 and 6.

The reason why we have set our research process out like this is so that we will be able to finish it on time before the deadline.

__Journal Keeping__ -


 * 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?  ==

**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