2H (25-28) GRACE 2010 BLOG

These are our survey findings

Group Product -

Our group has agreed on an educational board game on Tsunamis.
We will be taking a demonstration video on the playing of the game.

Include Details - Designs - Sketches -ETC -....(To be continued)

1) One difficulty I had and what I did about it:

Problem - It was very hard to get people to do the surveys as not many people were interested.
Solution - I asked some classmates and relatives to help to do the survey.

2) Two things I found interesting:

A) I found creating the survey very interesting. It helped me learn more about the topic and understand how to use google surveys.
B) I found reading other people's responses on the survey very interesting.

3) Three things I have learnt :
A) I have learnt to create a google document survey.
B) I have learnt how to formulate survey questions based on the topic -TSUNAMIS.
C) I have learnt more about Tsunamis and how to get people to do your survey.

Nicholas

1)What I know after the survey

After the survey, I have learned what other people thought about their topic, I have also slightly learned more about what measures can be taken to reduce the damage of Tsunamis.

2)What I think about the findings of the survey

I think the very little people are serious about the survey as most people gave irrelevant responses.

3)What I learnt from the survey

I learnt many things especially how to create a survey and more about the topic.

4)What I intend to do with the survey results

I intend to post the survey findings on the blog then to organize the survey results in a graph so that we can easily extract data


Nicholas

==>Experience when conducting the survey

Throughout the whole process of conducting the survey , our group has learned and gained much valuable information that will help us throughout our lives.

Throughout the survey , I learnt :

(1) How to prepare a survey Questionnaire

(2) How to create a survey using google Documents

(3) How to edit a survey

(4) How to create various kinds of questions using google Documents
-(e.g MCQ , Tick the Boxes , Open Ended , ETC.)

(5) How to work together as a team, to brainstorm and form questions related to the topic.

(6) How to formulate a final survey form so that people can do our survey online.


-Nicholas

What i know about surveys

Surveys are a selected set of questions that are formulated to find out more about the topic and to find opinions about other peoples views
Surveys are a constructive way to find out about different peoples possible lifestyles
Surveys involve many people in order to publish statistics

Ideas, what i think about surveys

Surveys are questions which people can freely choose what option best suits/describes them
Surveys should have a variety of questions ranging from open ended questions to close ended questions.

What i learnt about surveys

I have learnt how to formulate relevant questions that would help us to achieve the correct data that we need
I also have learnt that in order for a survey to be successful, the survey needs to be promoted heavily so that we can collect the numbers to from data

Action plan: What should we do after the survey

We should collect and analyse the data
We should see the statistics of the survey
We should use the data and see what could we improve on our project

This week we managed to do a few more things.

(1) Further improve on the survey
(2) Receive more responses on the survey
(3) Traded surveys with other IPW groups

However , based on the current responses on the survey , I still feel that some questions of the survey should be editted .

Although the final product is no where near complete , we are still coming up with more ideas for the game. We hope to produce a game and a video demonstration of the game that our classmates and friends find interesting.

Nicholas

This week we :

(1) Made some progress in the survey.
(2) Created the online survey using google documents.
(3) Received some feedback from our IPW teacher and classmates.
(4) Made some changes to the questions in the survey.
(5) Posted and tried to spread the survey

We need to :
Get more people to respond to our survey.

Dear members , please help spread the survey by :

Facebook / Internet / Email or other means and
Get your Relatives / Friends to help on the survey.

This is urgent as we need 40 responses ASAP.

Thanks

-.- im bored

Week 4 Reflection
Questions on Tsunamis I sorted out
What causes Tsunamis?
How could tsunami effect the population?
Examples of effect caused by tsunami
What is a tsunami?
Is Singapore safe from tsunami threats?

I was warned by Mr. Seow that i have to make up for the reflections i did not do.

Our group had finished the Project Planner A and B , and changed our final product to a small Game.

So far , We have done the following ;
1. Create a Group Name
2. Create a Group Blog
3. Researched on the topic we want to do
4. Decided on the Final Product
5. Posted our reflections after each lesson(Well, i am still making up for that :P)

6. Formed the basic foundation for the Game
7. Made a Project Planner
8. Uploaded the project planner on top

Next , we want to ;
1. Improvise the prototype of the game

2. Make the game more interesting from what it is now

3. Develop more ideas for the game
4. Research more on the Topic of the Game
5. Create the basic game
6. Test the game on our family members and friends and ask for their opinions
7. Furthur improve on the game
8. Ask for our teacher's opinion
9. Do the necessary changes to the game .

Throughout all these lessons , we all have learnt many things .
For Example ;
1. Many unknown facts about World Weather Disasters ( Tsunamis,Earthquake,Typhoon etc. ) 2.How to make , Update , and maintain a Blog
3. How to update files on Google Docs and make a quick link to the Blog
4. How to plan our project
5. How to allocate tasks effectively, so that the work will be more efficient .

This Project is getting more interesting more and more . I can't wait to see the board game we are making out!

Week 4 Reflection
Basic Question on Tsunamis I have sorted out for target for our project


1.What causes Tsunamis?
2.How could tsunami effect the population?
3.Examples of effect caused by tsunami
4.What is a tsunami?
5.Is Singapore safe from tsunami threats?
6.How do we detect tsunami beforehand?

Ideas i thought of

I think that creating a board game on Tsunamis will be fun. We would have to research and make reference to other board games,to see if our idea will actually work out in an actual board game system. Then we still have to do even more research on tsunami before we start the actuall making in order to make the game more fun and enjoyable.


Learning Issues :

I want to find out more about Tsunamis , so that I could create a fun board game that teaches people facts about Tsunamis that are unknown to them. I want to create an new kind of game , and I want to learn how to make the game fun and enjoyable , so that people would develop an interest in the subject of tsunami, and would learn more about it on their own out of intrest.

Action i should take

I think i have to spare more time from my weekends to do researchs on Tsunami as they are essential to the success of making the game.

Our Leader, Nicholas, and TiC, Mr Melvin Seow was absent
So basically we have to do it on our own.

So, i have to get started with the project

Facts : What I know about Surveys

It is a method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population.
A survey may focus on opinions or factual information depending on its purpose.
Many surveys involve administering questions to individuals.

Ideas : What I think about surveys

I think surveys are a very efficient method to collect opinions or facts depending on the topic. It will be a very fast way of collection various information. I think surveys should have more close ended questions as the person doing the survey would save more time and find it hassle-free. Although there should be more close-ended questions, there should still be 1 or 2 open ended questions.

Learning Issues : What I found out in the survey

I found out more about surveys;
(1) How to form questions on the topic
(2) How to make relevant questions based on the topic
(3) How to form a proper survey which consists of the right number of open-ended and close-ended questions.
(4) How to make a survey which is both interesting and effective to the person doing it
(5) How to create and make a google-doc survey

Action Plan : What can I do after the survey

(1) Change our group's final product to the most popular survey choice
(2) Further develope our game based on the surveys
(3) Improve and make our game more interesting and educational

Nicholas

We have made a lot of progress and finished planners A and B

So far, we have...

Set up a Group Blog
Made a name for our blog
Found a topic that we are interested in
Decided on a final product
thought of a basic plan out for the game
did a project planner
posted reflections for every week of class


next we want to
make further progress with our game
test the game on others to survey it
create the basics on the game
seek other opinions and views


so far we have learnt how to
manage and maintain a full working blog
how google docs help a lot in our productivity rate
how to allocate different reponsibilities to different people
to plan and properly organise our project

We did not really discuss much as we were only sorting out the task allocations this week.

We Finished the Project Planner A and B , and changed our final product to a small Game.

So far , We have done the following ;
(1) Create a Group Name (Team Salvation)
(2) Create a Group Blog
(3) Researched on the topic we were interested in (Tsunamis)
(4) Uploaded the research file on the blog
(5) Decided on the Final Product (Game)
(6) Posted our reflections after each lesson
(7) Formed the basic foundation for the Game
(8) Made a Project Planner
(9) Uploaded the project planner on top

Next , we want to ;
(1) Improve the game
(2) Make the game more interesting
(3) Develope more ideas for the game
(4) Research more on the Topic of the Game
(5) Create the basic game
(6) Test the game on our family members and friends and ask for their opinions
(7) Furthur improve on the game
(8) Ask for our teacher's opinion
(9) Do the necessary changes to the game .

Throughout all these lessons , we all have learned many things .
For Example ;
(1) Many unknown facts about World Weather Disasters ( Tsunamis )
(2) How to make , Update , and maintain a Blog
(3) How to update files on Google Docs and make a quick link to the Blog
(4) How to plan our project
(5) How to allocate tasks effectively, so that the work will be more efficient .

This Project is getting more interesting lesson by lesson . I look forward to the results of our hard work and determination .


Nicholas

Leader was absent. We just talked basically nonsense as teacher was absent too. I know im contradicting Matthew and Nicholas but I'm just typing out what i remembered.
We did not discussed much and the only thing I did was to download the tsunami file from this blog.

Our project leader, Nicholas was absent for IPW period this week. However we have continued on making progress with our project.

I was absent for the 3rd lesson. However, my group briefed me on what was discussed.

I currently want to ask these questions based on Tsunamis ;

(1) How can we minimize the effects of Tsunamis?
(2) How many countries are affected by Tsunamis?
(3) How to construct a house so that it is not affected by Tsunamis?
(4) How deadly can the worst Tsunami be?
(5) Is there any way to prevent Tsunamis?
(6) Or can there be a way invented?

I agree that a way to prevent Tsunamis should be invented, or at least a confirmed way of saving all the people if there were to be a Tsunami. As there are bomb shelters, there could be a sort of a Tsunami shelter or something similar .

I learned more about Tsunamis , how to develope questions for the topic , and how to research using many different sources , such as the internet .
-Nicholas

 I felt that lesson 2 had more progress and we have chosen out topics, which is Natural Disasters, focused on the disaster : tsunami. I luve this disaster as it is quite rare but nowadays, this is getting more common. Could it be 2012? We also did reaseach on tsunamis this week and the tasks are on the right hand side of the page.

We have recently selected our topic and thats on natural disasters and we have specifically zoned in on tsunamis. The 2004 tsunami had a great impact on our lives and so we have decided to use it as our main topic. i have researched and thus found out that a tsunami is caused by an earthquake, landslide or volcanic eruption and that it travels at a very fast pace further out at sea but soon grows in height and size as it approaches the shore. I also found out that the first tsunami wave may not be the largest as there might be continual waves every 10-60 minutes. I now know that Singapore is safe as it is sheltered from the tsunami by other land masses surrounding it like Malaysia and Indonesia. And that a tsunami that resulted from a 9.0 magnitude earthquake would take 10 hours to reach the shores of Singapore. which makes it incredibly safe from tsunamis.

On this second week, we were asked to choose the theme we want our GRACE project to be based on.
We chose NO. 57 World Weather Disasters From the 66 Suggested titles.
Which contain:
Hurricane
Tornado
Taiphoon
Tsunami due to sea level rising/Earthquake
Earth Quake
Avalanches.
We will be focusing on the Disaster "Tsunami"(AKA tidal Wave)
I undertook the job to research for "Ways to detect Tsunami"
which will be essential as we are planning to design a item the can foresee and forewarn the publicity that a tidal wave is coming and we can evacuate people faster.
For some reason we have a change in the group Postitions.
Nicholas Wan became the Leader
Matthew became the Vice
Niger became the Questioner
and I BECAME THE ENCOURAGER........
what a nice job......

This week's lesson was more interesting. We had more discussion rather than just talking. 

I think that lesson one is a overview of GRACE. Basically, we are split into teams and each team consist of 4 people. Our team is named Team Salvation. We did not really do anything for the first week except creating this blog and electing the members. I hope we can do well in GRACE.

There was'nt much progress this week and we really have not started planning on anything really, only admin positions were elected besides that, no real product or artifact or goals have been set so we will wait till the next IPW period........

Grace 2010

==> Reflection on Lesson 1

This weeks grace lesson was rather boring, as we only discussed about the project and did nothing about it. We came up with a group name - Team Salvation, which means saving of the earth or something .  We appointed roles by drawing lots, and here are the appointed roles ;

Hsuan Ting      (25) -- Vice-Leader

Matthew Ng     (26) -- Encourager

Nicholas Wan  (27) -- Questioner

Niger Cheong  (28) -- Leader

I hope the next lesson is more fun. Thats all for now . 

-Nicholas