Sophie


 * Week 9 term 2**
 * 01/07/11**

This week I'm glad that I have created my own wiki account and made my own wiki page. I have decided who I want to work with for this research. I wanted to work withSarah and Sijia. Together, we have decided the topic that we want to do. We wanted to do our research on smoking. I have found the wonder wheel about smoking to put on my wiki page. First, I typed smoking in Google then I press enter and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where it said "wonder wheels" and click on it. The wonder wheel then came up with the word smoking in the center and around it are the things that related to it. It's like the mind map. I then click on one thing that I wanted to find out more. I did this three times then the final one was the one that I put on my wiki page. The wonder wheel is really helpful for doing research because it helps you to narrow down your topic so that it is easier to find information.


 * Week 10 term 2**
 * 07/07/11**

This week we have been told to summarize the six steps of Resourced Based Learning which are DLSOPE. One of the difficulties I found while doing this was that my English is not good enough to understand all of the words in there. After a few lessons working on it I have finally finished my six steps of RBL by looking at dictionary. This exercise was worth of doing because it helps me t improve my English skills as well as learning how to do well in this research topic. _


 * Six steps of Resourced Based Learning**

Defying the task involves
 * Define the task** is understand what the task is about and what you are required to do to complete the task.
 * Understanding the question
 * Using what you know: choosing a topic which you know about.
 * Developing keywords: think of the keywords that you may search for.
 * Planning the final product: planning how you are going to present your work.

Using the right keywords while searching can help you to find plenty of useful resources quickly and easily. You can search from the internet, newspapers, books or you can even interview other people. The library is a good place to do your research.
 * Locating information** is knowing where you can get the best information for what you are searching for.

Selecting resources involves will help to improve your marks. One way of finding primary sources can be interviewing someone.
 * Select resources** is choosing the best resources out of what you have found.
 * Reading the text carefully to decide whether it is related to what you are searching or not.
 * Questioning the text while you are reading (who? what?when? where? and why?)
 * Choosing the appropriate images which also matches the writing.
 * Choosing resources which are from the government website or or websites which belong to the big organisations to make sure that all the information are accurate.
 * Choosing primary sources information as well as secondary sources because that will help you to get more ideas and also show that you have done a lot of researching which



Organising notes involves
 * Organise notes** will help you to write your assignment faster and easier

A good presentation involves the middle of the page and then write each point you want to make in the bubble link. A mind map can also include pictures and graphics.
 * Using direct and indirect quotation will help you to avoid plagiarism.
 * Summarising the information is when you only write down the main points of the whole text.
 * Paraphrasing the information is when you changes some one witting into your writing using most of the keywords.
 * Present the ideas** is the stage where you put your notes and research together to create a piece of work.
 * Developing purposes by creating questions and answering each of them.
 * Planning your presentation by putting the information under its heading ( Introduction, first point, second point, third point and conclusion) or a mind map by writting the topic in

, the better mark you will get.
 * Evaluate your work** is checking your work and fixing the mistakes or even add in missing information**.** The more you do this

This week, i have been working on the effect of wheat and bread in the Western culture. I want to finish it as soon as possible because Mr Frangos said we need to finish it as soon as possible. the hardest part of this exercise is that it is hard to decide which website is useful and reliable by looking at them. I had to actually read the information to make my conclusion of which is the most useful and reliable. As an Esl learner, I found it really difficult to read and understand long text.
 * Week 1 term 3**
 * 25/ 07/ 2011**

This week I am going towards finishing my exercise on the effect of wheat and bread in the Australian culture. I have finally finished it by the end of the week. From doing this exercise, I learned how to choose useful and reliable information. I also learned about the affect of wheat and bread on the australian culture. This week we also tinking of changing our research topic.
 * Week 2 term 3**
 * 1/ 08/11**

This week, I started researching my topic on smoking and I found that it is boring because I have seen many other people presented it before. Beside that, it also scared me while I was researching for the health effects of smoking. So, we have decided to change our topic and at the moment we are thinking of a topic. This week, I have also completed my exercise on " Men's eating habit". I have learnt some useful things from this exercise including how to take notes.
 * Week 3 Term 3**
 * 08/ 08/ 11**

On Monday we did the group activity in class. The group activity was about the Moon Epedition. There were four people in our group including Sijia, Sarah, Tiffany and I. The task tells us to immagine that our space craft has landed on the moon. We need to choose eight things that we would take to the moon out of the list of fifteen things. We also need to give reasons for each of them.
 * Week 4 Term 3**
 * 15/08/11**

On the double lesson on Tuesday, the teacher handed out the sheets on information about the about the five capabilities which we will need to include in our research project. the five capbilities are communication, citizenship, citizenship, personal development, work and learning.


 * Week 5 Term 3**
 * 21/08/11**

**What you have acheive in your learning?** Finally, we have decided a new topic for our research project. We have decided to do our research on Yum Cha which is a Chinese style morning or afternoon tea. We want to finish our finish our research proposal as soon as possible. After talking to Mr Frangos about our topic, we found that our topic is more exciting because we get to cook. We now know what we need to do our proposal and also how we are going to present our research topic.
 * What you want to achieve?**
 * Positives moments**

This week, Tiffany joined our group so we now have four people in our group. It made it abit difficult for us because we have to divide up our work again but we were fine with it. This week we are finishing off our research proposal and we have finished it on Friday. We are now following the timeline from our research proposal to continue our research project.
 * Week 6 Term 3**
 * 02/09/11**

This week, we are writting our survey for our research project. We are going to give the our surveys to people online. We are aiming for a less then 15 question survey because we don't want people to take to long to do it so that more people will do it. We made multiple choice questions so that it makes it easier for people to answer them. The hardest part of making this survey is that we have to try to make our question more general because our topic is Yum Cha and it is quite specific so if people haven't tried it then they wouldn't know how to answer the questions. We made it more general by asking questions about Chinese food.
 * Week 7 Term 3**
 * 09/09/****11**

This week, our main achievement is our survey. We have finally finished our survey. Besides that, we have also worked out our budget for out cooking in next term. We are going to make/buy spring rolls. The budget is going to be $77. We want to get many people to do our survey. We are going to post it on Facebook. Our positive moment is that we have decided what to cook and we are looking forward to make/buy the spring rolls. This week I learned how to budget.
 * Week 8 Term 3**
 * 12/09/11**
 * What you have achieved in your learning?**
 * what you want to achieve in the future?**
 * Positive successful moments**
 * Skill did you learn in this research?**


 * Week 9 Term 3**
 * 20/09/11**

This week, we tried to get people to do our survey. Sarah and I have created an event on is Facebook to invite our friends to do the survey. Mr. Frangos also printed out another 50 surveys for us to give to people. In the future, we want to get more people to do our survey and also try to give out all of our survey printouts to people so that we don't waste Mr. Frangos's printing money. Our most successful moment is when we knew that more than 100 people did our survey. This is the most enjoyable part in our research so far. Now that I have worked out the budget and completed the surveys, I will go on with my research on the **history of Yum cha.** This week, we have almost done our surveys and I am starting to analysing them.
 * Week 10 Term 3**
 * 26/09/11**

this week, i'm doing my powerpoint and so far I have done 13 slides. Hopefully, it will be a good one.
 * Week 1 Term 4**


 * Week 2 Term 4**

This week, we are doing our cue cards and getting ready for the oral.

- After we have finished analyzing 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 job is to find out about the history of yum cha, what is the meaning of it and how it has changed over the years. I am putting the animations onto the power points and trying to make it look good.
 * Week 2 term 4 **


 * Week 3 term 4 **


 * Week 5 Term 4**

This week, we are selling spring rolls to the staffs and we are also doing our presentation this week. We have sold 50 spring rolls in total. Most of the staffs enjoyed the spring rolls.

From selling the spring rolls, we learnt about management skills and also some communication and mathematical skills.

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 orgainse 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.
 * Proposal **
 * 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 product which may be some kinds of Chinese food, will be safe, and clean for staff and student to eat.


 * // 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. 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 question for the survey. - Ask as much people 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 timeline for this topic will be shown as below: //**

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.


 * Week 5 Term 4**

This week, we are selling spring rolls to the staffs and we are also doing our presentation this week. We have sold 50 spring rolls in total. Most of the staffs enjoyed the spring rolls. From selling the spring rolls, we learnt about management skills and also some communication and mathematical skills.

__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? ==


 * 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