Rohan

__**Journal Entry - Week 1**__ Our first lesson for year 12 Research Project was on a Monday. This day we didn't do much because for the most of our lesson our teacher Mr. Street told us about what this subject will be like and what we will have to do. He spend quite a time on explaining this so that all the students know that what really is happening and how to go about the whole subject. He also invited us to join wikispace, so that we can keep a track of our own project by writing journals. This lesson was also started with Mr.Street telling us about what this subject will be about, he also told us about how we our allowed to do our research on any topic. In this lesson we also started writing journals as we finally joined wikispace after going through all the procedure of inviting. When we had finally joined wikispace Mr.Street helped us to get used to it and told us about how stuff works. This was a double lesson. In the first part of the lesson we went to the library where the librarian Ms.Mcinnes had some books for us which were suppose to help us with choosing our research topic. All of us looked into some books but as we were allowed to work on our own topics, i just went through the books which interested me. So that i can come up with a topic which really interested me. For the second part of the lesson we were given particular sheets which will help us in developing our topics. Today i had to come up with the topics that interested me and then make research question on each on of them.
 * (31/1/11) - Monday**
 * (1/2/11) - Tuesday**
 * (3/2/11) - Thursday**

__**These were some of the subjects and questions about them which interested me.**__
 * **Manchester United** - Why does Manchester United has the greatest fan following ?
 * **Top Gear** - What makes the T.V show "Top gear" so famous?
 * **World war 2** - Did the battle of stalingrad cost Germans the world war 2 ?
 * **Scuderia Ferrari** - Why has Scuderia Ferrari been the best racing team in Formula One ?
 * **Cricket** - Why is cricket only popular in a handful of countries ?

__**Journal Entry - Week 2**__ In whole of this lesson we just "developed" our topics by going through the sheets which were given us by our teacher, and we also updated our wiki's. In this lesson i shortened the number of subjects into two. Now the only topics questions i'm left with are the ones on Manchester United and World war 2. I spent quite a time discussing my topics with our teacher so that he can help me choose between the two topics but couldn't as both topics are really interesting to research in. Today i finally chose between the two topics. I have decided to do my research project on the subject question, "Why does Manchester United has the the greatest fan following?" On this day we were also given a assignment which was to come up with a proposal which explains how i would do my research and and why am i doing it. The assignment is due next week on friday, which is the 18th of February.
 * (7/2/11) - Monday**
 * (8/2/11) - Tuesday**
 * (10/2/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 3**__ I finished my proposal during the weekend, and during this lesson i just showed it to the teacher and made sure that everything is right. Even though Mr.Street said that it was perfectly fine i still plan to make some changes to it, just to make sure that i get a good grade for it. In this lesson i just made changes to the proposal and improved my wiki a bit. Now in the next lesson i plan to start researching after finishing the proposal. Today, i just worked on my proposal for the whole lesson. I wrote it using the guidelines we were given. I finished the proposal by the end of the lesson and gave it to Mr.Street as a draft.
 * (14/2/11) - Monday**
 * (15/2/11) - Tuesday**
 * (17/2/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 4**__ In this lesson Mr.Street gave me my draft back after marking it. After Mr.Street gave me the draft back, i spent the whole lesson correcting the mistakes and editing my proposal. At the end of the lesson i gave Mr.Street my final copy of the proposal.
 * (21/2/11) - Monday**


 * __This is my final copy of the proposal__ -**


 * Subject title** - Manchester United

I chose this topics because I am myself a fan of this club like millions of other people but like all the other fans I just don't like the club because they play good soccer. So I want to know what the other reasons are; for people following this club the most in the world.
 * Research topic** - Why does Manchester United have the greatest fan following?

The easiest way to do this research will be to ask people themselves why they like the club so much. Even though its officially proven that it is the club which is followed the most i would still survey people and ask them which club they like the most and then support my research with the results. I also plan to get connected with some Manchester united fans on the net and talk to them. This will be a really important thing to do because the fans i plan to get connected with will be the ones who really know the club and have been following them "very closely" over the years, so they will be able to help me quite a bit with my research. As it is the most famous soccer club, they have quite a number of documentaries made on them and quite a number of those documentaries also focus on why so many people follow them. I also plan to talk to my mates who follow Manchester united as well. I will be able to get some straight forward reasons out of them as the other people I'll talk to on the internet might be a bit formal about the whole thing. Although the most important thing I plan to do is, to get in touch with the club officials through the club’s official website. I want to do it so that I can get their point of view on why people like their club so much. I also want to do a survey which actually gives me a number to support the research topic. I plan to do it by asking people that which clubs they like the most out of Manchester United and a list of other famous soccer clubs.
 * How do I plan to carry out the research?**

**Ethics and Safety** I'll make sure that i reference all the quotes or data that might be used by me for this research. I will also have to check the credibility of the websites and the primary sources which I will use to research. One more thing I will have to be extra careful about is that being careful about what personal information I put on the websites (To make accounts so that I can talk to other people). I will have to make sure that i get in touch with decent people as cyber bullying is everywhere these days. I will also have to make sure that i get in touch with official people or in simple words genuine fans or officials not some hoax.

**Capability of communication** I will connect my research with the capability of communication as number of things which I will do will help me improve my communication skills. The things I will be doing during this research project will be:-
 * I will be reading quite a bit to get a good understanding of the topic.
 * Interviewing and surveying.
 * Using appropriate research language.
 * Listening to and appreciating different perspectives.
 * Presenting my findings in a written form.

Today i spent the whole lesson looking for some stats on the on the internet which indicate that Manchester is followed the most. On this day I kept on researching on my topic. I found a number of fan blogs on the Internet so that I can talk to some other fans aswell and ask them what they think about my topic. I made accounts on different blogs and sent different people emails asking whether they can help me or not.
 * (22/2/11) - Tuesday**
 * (25/2/11) - Friday**

__**Journal Entry - week 5**__ Today i found another way to get some help and information with my topic. I went on Manchester United's official website and found a email Id which would help me to get in touch with the club's official people. I have already written them a mail and now I'm waiting for a reply. All of this lesson went in me posting questions on the internet so that people can answer them for me, because the internet was too slow it took me whole lesson to post questions on different websites. In this lesson i went on all the websites to check whether someone has answered them or not, but didn't end up finding any of those questions because the websites I posted them on were major websites and everyday people posted hundreds of questions on it. So, because i posted those questions as a guest on the website i was unable to find them. Today I decided to find a proof of Manchester United being the most followed club in the world. and came up with this: __**Journal entry - Week 6**__ For the whole lesson I researched and edited my survey before finally giving it to students to fill. Today for some part of the lesson i had a chat to my research project teacher about the discussion we were going to have in our next lesson. For the remaining time i just figured out that how i would answer all the question in the discussion. Today i had a discussion with my teacher. He asked me quite a number of question which helped me understanding that how research i have done and how much i still have to do. The discussion made my own project clearer in my mind.
 * (28/2/11) - Monday**
 * (1/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (3/3/11) - Thursday**
 * (4/3/11) - Friday**
 * (7/3/11) - Monday**
 * (9/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (10/3/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 7**__ Today I worked on my survey, didn't give anyone to fill it out because i wanted to get it checked from my teacher before I ask people to fill it. I made a plan about how to write my report but I also need to consult that with my teacher. I was unable to talk to him because he is busy with class discussion's. Prior to this lesson I asked number of people questions on Facebook. I only sent the questions to the people who knew about soccer so that I can a get a better idea about the topic. In the lesson I just collected all the answers I got, so that it can be presented properly. I couldn't make my teacher check my survey as he was busy with the discussion again.
 * (15/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (17/3/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 8**__ In this lesson Mr.Street finally checked my survey even though he still had discussions going. He made some changes to my survey and then I finally printed it. I couldn't give it to people to fill because didn't have much time and everyone was busy. Today I gave out my survey to people to fill out. !5 people filled it out. The results obtained really helped me carry on with my research as I wanted some reason to carry on with my research. The survey's really gave me some good results. Today i gave out some more surveys, and after all the other students had given them back i organized them properly so that they can be presented properly with the report.
 * (21/3/11) - Monday**
 * (22/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (24/3/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 9**__ I started to plan my report. i.e. what information goes where. After planning it, I started on my introduction. For the rest of the time in Research Project I plan to work on my report and elaborate on the answers I've got for my "Research Question". From now on I just plan to write my report and elaborate on the answers obtained in the report. Today I researched more so that I get can more ideas about the answers I got for my survey.
 * (28/3/11) - Monday**
 * (29/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (30/3/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Week 10**__ Today I just worked on my journals and made them better. Today after having a chat with my teacher I decided to not do a report but a power point presentation as I will be able to present my findings better. I plan to do this because then I'll be able present all the videos and the images which were found and which really help me answer my research question. In this lesson I spent most of the time in thinking how to present my power point, in other words how to set it so that information present on it gets across to the people easily. I started on my power point presentation in the second part of the lesson.
 * (4/4/11) - Monday**
 * (5/4/11) - Tuesday**
 * (7/4/11) - Thursday**

After working on my power point on the weekend, today I showed it to my teacher. One of the problems I was facing was that how to elaborate on the answers I got for my "research question", so after consulting with my teacher I decided to use videos and images along with some words. For the whole lesson I just worked on my power point, so that before the end of the term I can hand in a draft and get a feedback from the teacher next term. This will give me a better idea on how I am going and what else I have to do make my presentation better. By handing in a draft now I will have plenty of time to make my presentation better before the final due date. Today I made finishing touches to the project so that i can hand it up tomorrow. I have touched on every major answer I got from the people on my Research Question. Right now i'm not too sure about how my project is going look in the end but I'm trying to make as good as i can. I have put almost every important thing I found or researched.
 * __Journal Entry - Week 11__**
 * (11/4/11) - Monday**
 * (12/3/11) - Tuesday**
 * (14/3/11) - Thursday**

__**Journal Entry - Term 2**__ __**Week 1**__ Today on the first day of the term I just made minor changes to my power point as Mr. Street didn't mark my draft so I didn't know what changes to make. From now on I plan to select certain things in my power point out of all the information I have in there because I reckon that my presentation might increase 10 minutes which is the limit. Today after having a chat with my teacher I've decided to shorten my videos as they take too much of time in my presentation. I don't want to delete any of those videos because all of them are important to my project. One more thing I've decided on is to add a voice over in my oral presentation, I want to do it this way because then I will be able analyze the information better. Research project has helped me to improve my skills quite a bit. Due to my final project being a power point I have learnt a number of things about computers, because my project includes good presentation and deals with number of media forms I have been able to improve my skills.
 * (2/5/11) - Monday**
 * (3/5/11) - Tuesday**
 * (5/3/11) - Thursday**

Today Mr.street showed us one of our classmate's work because it was really good, after looking at that I am much more clearer about what I have to come up with to get a good grade. Today our teacher gave us a sheet about which talked about how to set a power - point. My power point was was very much difference than what the sheet suggested us to do, so I spent the whole lesson improving my power point. The biggest difference was that I had too many words on a single slide, so i plan to reduce the number of words and put dot points on the slide. Today I started writing my speech which I'm going to refer to while adding the voice over to my power - point. I've taken particular care of adding my view to the speech which is what I thing about the inofrmation rather then just reading a few words out of some book.
 * Journal Entry - Term 2**
 * Week 2**
 * (9/5/11) - Monday**
 * (10/5/11) - Tuesday**
 * (12/5/11) - Thursday**


 * Journal Entry - Term 2**
 * Week 3**
 * (16/5/11) - Monday**

Today I went through my power - point and referd every information I had put on it. I have learned couple of more skills in recent weeks. I have learnt how to use different softwares, how to edit videos. The project has really helped me in improving my skills on computer. I deleted all the sound from the videos which I put on my power point because I plan to talk over them aswell. I am doing this so that I don't waste anytime of my presentation. I want to as much as i can to the end product. Today I worked on my speech for the whole double lesson. I don't think i'll be able to hand my final product up by the end of this week because I don't want to hurry and hand in a "not so good" product. I will wait till next week. At the same time i'm still doing some research to get more information.
 * (17/5/11) - Tuesday**
 * (19/5/11) - Thursday**