Norris

__**Week 1**__ 31st Monday - I been to my first stage 2 research project. Ms Mcinnes is the teacher and I have just been invited to join her wikispace

1st Tuesday - Today we had to pick a topic and find 5 artilces with 2 sentence on Ebsco Host. I had quickly picked violence in video games because it is a big issue with young teen and parents.

__**Week 2**__ __**Deadly Games**__ Focuses on the potential of video games to spur copycat violence in the youth. Also Devin Moore, who gunned down three lawmen, and the entire chain that makes, distributes or sells the games Grand Theft Auto.

__**Are violent video games harmful**__ Violent video games create aggressive behaviour in young teen that are addictive to playing for a long time and metal health professionals need to be aware of these potentially negative effects of video games when assessing patients who present with aggression.

__**Depraved video games get serious**__ the author reflects on the positive and negative value of video games. Australian politicians and the media ladeled video games as murder simulator associated with depression and addiction and promote sex as well as extreme violence to minors.

the jury is still out on whether adults are just as influenced by video games as juveniles, according to a Macquaire University psychologist. Juveniles would adopt aggression-related scripts more readily than adults through prolonged exposure to violent video games.
 * __Do video games make adults violent__**

__**Video Vigilantes**__ Mentions the debate over whether the government should play a role in monitoring the access of kids to violent and sexual games. Consideration of how there is no law which prevent retailers from selling M-rated Games to players who are under 17 years. []

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__**Week 3**__ 14 Monday - We Just had to contiue on the topic we had picked also Ms Mcinnes show us a website called **CRAP** it stands for **Credibility, Reliability , Authority and Purpose** this show students how reliable sources are and help you when you to evaluating Information Its also showed us the five ways to help you which are **Who, What, Why, When and How.**

17 Thursday - Today I had to change into a new research project class from Ms Mcinnes to Mr Street's and I had to copy my work from Ms Mcinnes wiki page to Mr Street's wiki page which has just been made. Mr street has just told me to do a proposal which is due friday and I have not started and Im way behind everybody.

__**Week 4**__ 28 Monday - I have just handed up my research project Purposal and also i have just updated my Journal

__**Week 5**__ 28 Monday - I updated my journal

2 Wednesday - Absent because of School Sports Day

3 Thursday - Today Mr Street showed the class a funny video of a dog saying hello on youtube. It was funny and most of the class mates were laughing then he showed us a video bout plagiarism .The video showed us how we can pervent from doing plagiarism like copying the reference/URL to your work to show were you got your information also putting the word that you copy in quotation mark.

Im going to focus question to guide research. I talked to Ms Murdock on some of the question that I came up with that are What are the current rating and legislation or video games and what kind of violence are found in video game also how can violence in video games affect on young people and the last thing was how can it be controlled.

__**Week 6**__ Moday 6th -Today Mr. Street told use that we need to book an apointment time with the teacher for your formal disscussion about your reseach project. we had to bring evidence of research to the interview like portfolio and journal and any other kinds of evidence like digital recording, documents and photo's.Some of the questions arre about learning and capabilites

__**Week 7**__ Monday 21th - Today i just been starting on my survey on my topic on violence in video games. My survey will on a paper typed up on computer and will be handed out to teacher and parent and especially to young teens. The question that i focus on are question like are violent video game affecting young teens and children also how long to people play video and what kinds of violence do you can in video games...etc

__**Week 8**__ 25th Friday - Today i saw Mr Street for my interview.He just talked to me about my topic on violence in video games and asked some question like what are the violent in video games doing to kids and young teen as well as adult who play video games and what do the elderly think about the issue as well as parent e specially if they have children who play violent video over there age limit or game rating. I was feeling really nervous about the discussion not knowing if I had the right information and not knowing what we would be talking about. I felt like i was reasonably well prepared because i had printed off my research, my survey and i know my focus questions. The discussion went really well as the questons were very easy. It was really helpful in my planning for example, interviewing some guys at the game stores. I think that i passes it ok. If i have another discussion i think i will be more comfortable because I know whats going to happen.

__**Week9**__ Monday 28 - today I just updated my journal from week 7 to week 9 but i forgot what i did for week 6. I know that its really important to keep my journal up to date and to be very reflecting in it because it will help my reflection at the end.

Thursday 7th - Today i just updating my journal and contiue on my research on Violence in video games
 * __Week 10__**

Friday 13th - today i started to had out my survey on violence in video games

__**Week11**__

Thursday 12th - i decided to change on how im going to do my research out come. first i thought i had to write 1500 word because that is that a lot of words because i have only written that many words once before and that was for a creative assignment for english. then I heard that I could present it in a different ways and I thought I could make a pamphelt to give advice to parents about how dangerous playing video games could be. Then i saw the Parentin SA, Parent Easy Guides at the front office area and I thought this could be a good way to present my information. I can make it look colourful. The information looks easy to read because it is colums with bold headings and dot points and some pictures. It has got titles like what harm does it do? and what you can do? and what should you know? Reminders and Want more information? these are all titles that I can use in my fact sheet.

i had looked at publisher and i decided to do a newsletter design. i decided to do the newsletter because its look the same as the Parent Easy Guide pamphelt.