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This is our first week of Stage 2 Research project. I am trying to develop more basic research skills by the end of this sememster. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the first few lessons of research project due to my subject changes that occured during the first week. During this week, I was asked to come up some fields of my interest and I came up with ;
 * Fashion and body image
 * Prediction that the world might come to an end in 2012
 * World poverty and hunger
 * Recent natural disasters in Australia
 * Why is cancer occuring in undeveloped Countries?
 * Is social networking becoming a big issuse within the society?
 * Multiculturalism in Australia


 * 1st February 2011 **

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Today was my first lesson with Mr. Street. It was quite interesting for me as Mr. Street went though what he have to research this semester. ======

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I was glad to hear about using Wikispaces again this year because I'm quite familiar using the Wikispace last year with Ms. McInnes. Mr. Steet helped me and invited me to join the Wkispaces. I had to make a new account and start my theory work. ======

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It was a double lesson today and we had to think about a specific topic that we would like to research about. I had alot of topics going thorugh my head and it was really hard for me to choose the best one that intesrest me.I came up with thinking about researching more on stress and depression but I realised that it was a very broad topic and it wouldn't be really easy to reaserch about that topic. Finally, I came up an idea of reseaching about **" Social Networking Websites"** and how it's related to **cyber bullying**. We were also told to come up with a question that we would like to research. ======

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Today, we had to come up a **hypothesis** related to our reseach topic. As I'm researching about **"Social networking"** and the stuff related to it, I thought it would be a better idea to come up a question that's related to Teenagers because youngeters are really passionate about most of the networking websites these days such as Facebook, MSN, Twitter, Myspace etc. So, my question is **"Why are teenagers so addicted to Social Networking websites and they safe?! "** ======

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I was just researching about my topic during the lesson and got many information about it on the internet <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">. We have a choice of either doing an aral presentation in front of the class or do a written report based on our topic. So i decided to do a 1500 words report on my topic. =====

We also had to come up 4 questiong on our topisc as well.
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">These are the questions that I came up with. ..
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Are these social networking websites safe enough for teenagers?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What is the exact use of these websites?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">﻿What are some of the reasons why teenagers are addicted to these websites? Do people know that they can easily get cyber bullied?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Does cyber bullying occur too much in these websites?

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">10th February 2011 **
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">We had a double lesson and during the first half of the lesson, Mr.Street explained to us about the SACE research project of 2011 and how the school and the SACE board is going to assess us.

18th February
Today was the due date for our proposal. We had quite a long time to finsh the proposal based on our topic. I wasn't still sure about what to include in my proposal and how to do the alignment for it so I decided to hand in my draft copy to Mr. Street rather than giving him the good copy of my propsal so that I can re-do it again if there are any mistakes.

** 21st February **
I walked in late to my research lesson today because I came to school late..But I still managed to get the draft checked and Mr Street spotted me a few mistakes in my draft for the proposal. I didn't get enough time to edit it during the lesson but I brefily looked at it as I reached home and handed the good copy to him the next lesson.

** 22nd February **
I was absent today due because I wasn't feeling well enough to attend school today.

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My research propsal was all done and got marked by Mr. Street and this week, I was planning to do my pre-survey just to get the feedback from the school students. In the survey, I included the age groups between 15-20 nd over aswell, so that I can get different answers from different age groups. I also included a few different questions about both; cyber bullying and social networking websites ( both my hypothesis).=====

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The survey was done by thursday during the double lesson and gave it out to many people as I could...I got back a variety of reuslts. It was quite interesting to look at the results as I went though them. I realised that most the people would react different if they were a victim of cyber bullying. Now I'm planning to do my actual internet based survey. I'm not sure about how to create a survey so I have to seek mr. Street's help with it :)=====

On monday, Mr Street was guiding us through a variety of questions that he would ask us based on our research. Some of the questions were;
Why did I close this particular topic? What have I done my topic already? What am I planning to do my topic? Do I have to change anything that I already planned for my topic.eg : hypothesis etc.

On wednesday during week 6, Mr Street Interviewed each students on a few questions that's associated with our topic. The interview went for about 10 minuts, and I had fairly a brief idea of what I was going to answer. I hope I did a good job in the interview and hoping to investigate more about my topic. I've already gained alot of useful information about my topic and I find it really intereting and helpful. I learnt that the most of the cyber bullying occurs to teenagers due to lack of awareness, and many people give away their private information on some of the social networking websites such as Facebook. People need to be aware that hackers can steal all your private data and do whatever they want using those informations and they might even stalk you. Cyber bullying is a major crime in our society now and many people are becoming a victim of it now-a-days.

Week 7
I missed out on two lessons on my RPR this week beacuse Milena, Jean nd I had to talk to the school counsellor due certain issues.Even though I've missed out on a couple of my Research project lessons, I managed to keep up with my research work. I'm currently working with the draft for my essay and trying to hand it in to Mr Street as soon as I can to recieve some good/bad feedbacks on it.

Week 8 I got to know my grade for my research proposal. I'm quite happy with the grade I got, but I will try my best to improve my grade to an A. I'm still researching more about my topic; Cyber bullying and and social networking websites. I'm also preparing to come up some interesting questions to interview my school counsellor aswell.