Rohan+helps+haiti

-The teacher just explained us about what this subject is going to be about. -We made the groups in which we're going to work for whole semester on a particular topic. In my group there are seven people which includes Vuong, Darren, Chris, Onn, Ben, Anel and me.
 * Week -1**

-I officially started my research project in week 2. We plan to make a video to raise fund for the people in haiti as they just witnessed an earthquake. But we're not sure that this going to be our final plan. -We also got to know about DLSOPE which stands for - D - Defining L - Locating S - Selecting O - Organising P - Presenting E - Evaluating
 * Week - 2**

-The teacher helped us in finding some of the sources which we can use for our reaserch project. It included a very important wonder wheel on google. Which i reckon is going to help us a lot because it kind of guides us towards our topic and it also gives us more ideas. The teacher also gave us some idea about bibliography's as it is very important to acknowledge other peoples work, if we use it. The teacher also gave us a useful website which helps us to write bibliography's according to our project. The website tells us about how to write a bibliography with different kind of projects. The URL ( location ) for the website is []
 * Week 3**

-In week 4 we learned about how to grow on our ideas. A website called www.mywebspiration.com helped us a lot. The picture above this text is a example of how the website helps us. It helps us in making these diagrams which can be very useful as it guide you towards your next step. -In this week we also met one of the teachers in school who has been helping students to research on issues for a long time. I think Mr.Noble helped us a lot as he made it easier for us to start our research because we had no idea where to start from.
 * Week 4**
 * -**In this week we also decided on what is everybody going to work on as their are different parts of the project. Researching, web page designing,working on the video we plan to make for fund raising are some of the parts on which different people plan to work from our group.

As my job in the group is to collect information about Haiti. So, this is what i've found till now ; Haiti is officially known as Republic of Haiti. It is a carribean country, The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres and the capital of Haiti is Port-au-prince.
 * Research**

I think the main stakeholders in this project are the people whom we are donating money for and the people who are donating the money to make the life better for people in Haiti who were effected by the earthquake.
 * Research questions**

Some information relating to this topic is that Haiti is not the country which hasn't experienced this kind of earthquake before. Haiti is based at such a place where every kind of natural disaster is literally common. People of haiti have continuesly suffered from natural disasters. Some statistics about the earthquake from which Haitians suffered from on 12th january 2010 are ;

7.0 magnitude. 52 aftershocks. 217000 - 213000 people died.

In this week we learned about how to interview people as it will help us a lot to in our projects because it opens more options for us to get some information from. Now our job is to plan a interview with a person who can help us with our topic. My first step is to find a person who can help me with our topic,which is not going to be easy because our topic is kind of different from normal topics. In this week we came up with different questions which we can use to gather information and also to guide ourselves.
 * Week 5**



In this week we got our access to to the website which can help us with any kind of project in other words with any kind of topic because from that site we can get the same news but with people's differernt views on it.So, it helps us in growing our ideas. The name of the website is "EBSCO host". It is very useful. In this week we have also finally booked an appointement time with Ms. Bond so that she can help us with our topic as well. From this week we have started working really hard on our project because unlike other topics our topic requires more ideas. So, different people are working on different parts (ideas) for the project.
 * Week 6**
 * This concept map is made by //__Chris Chau__//, one of the members of our group.**

We started this week by getting some information on how to recognize a website, in other words how to decide whether the website is important, original and contains factual information. we got this information from our teacher. It is really helpful and as a part of our week 7 work we have to suggest five ways by which we can make sure that the website we're using is right.Onn and me went to visit ms.Sykes to tell her about our fund raising plan and also to get some more ideas to raise money for Haiti.
 * Week 7**

The five ways are:-

Look at the url and check whether it ends with org or edu or something else which states that the website is owned by the government itself or some other government organization. Read the information present in the website and then compare it with a good website like google or wikipedia and then decide whether the information is correct or not. Check whether the site is biased. Check whether the author who is making this website is a qualified person. Check whether the website is constantly updated, because all the good site are kept up to date.

**__Our Fundraising page__ - ** []
 * __Our Group Wiki__** - http://whs-haiti.wikispaces.com/Group+wiki-helping+haiti
 * __ Our Youtube Video __** - []


 * Week 8**

Week 8 started on a good note because Miss Edwards came to see that how our group is working. She liked the way our group is working and is really pleased with us. This week is really a assessment week because there are couple of important things due in this week which will determine our grades for this term.

1. How are you associated with the Haiti crisis?
 * 10 Interview questions:-**

2. How has your association benefited victims?

3. Who is assisting your organisation?

4. What can people do to help your organisation?

5. How long will you be there for?

6. What qualifications do you need to do to be part of this organisation?

7. Is there any way that we can help other than money?

8. How long do you think when the crisis will be over?

9. What are your thoughts about the crisis?

10. Will Haiti ever be the same?


 * My annotated bibliography from Ebscohost

5 articles from the EBSCO host website, which relate to Haiti :-**

[|//**Hope**// //**For**// //**Haiti's**// //**Kids**//]

The article mainly talks about how the UN and one of the organizations under the UN, which is UNICEF helping the children in Haiti, who are deeply effected by the earthquake in Haiti. Basically what the organizations are doing is that they are registering the children who have unfortunately become orphans or have displaced themselves in the aftermath of the earthquake.

[|//**Good**// //**intentions**//]

The news on which this article is based is that when a group of missionaries came from the United states to help the children in Haiti, but the reason why this became a big issue is that the missionaries didn't have the permission to take the children away from there even if it was for the children good future. which according to me is the right thing, some country just can't handover the children of their country to the people of some other country, no matter what the situation is. And because they didn't have any permission they were charged with child abduction, and as a result of that security has increased even more on the borders of Haiti.[]. A link of a news video of the same news as inthis article, as it will give us a bigger idea about what actually happened.

[|//**Rockers**// //**Unite**// //**for**// //**Haiti**// //**Benefits**//]

This is a article about how all the famous actors and singers held a concert in different cities of the U.S.and in London to raise some money for the people of Haiti. The article mainly talks about how the the concert went but in the end it tells us that how much money was raised for the people of Haiti, and also about the how some other famous people raised money for earthquake stricken Haiti.

[|//**Rockers**// //**Unite**// //**for**// //**Haiti**// //**Benefits**//]

This article is about the request Haiti's president made to Barrack Obama the president of U.S. for 14 billion U.S dollars. So that they can not only pull themselves out of the rubble but also to make the city modern and better in compare to the conditions before.

[|//**Boys**// //**with**// //**hearts**// for //**Haiti**// --- //**CATHOLIC**// //**SCHOOLS**// //**WEEK**// --- //**advertising**// //**supplement**//]

I chose this article because the children of that school did the same thing as we are doing now. They have raised 700 dollars by making stickers. Even we are doing the same thing but the only difference is that we plan to do a couple more things, so I'm looking at the positive side which is that we'll be able to raise much more money. Which is very important for the people of Haiti.

As the term assessment is over, so in this week we are starting all over again but this time we are in the middle of our project which is really important. If we look on our DLSOPE scale then we are up to O which is organizing. We almost have all the important information for our project now all we have to do is organize it to make our our final product. I think we have to pick up some more speed with our project because we have a much more complicated topic to work on and because we have planned to do too many things, which might take quite a time to finish.
 * Week 9**

We're starting to finalize things now. As our project is a really big one and it comprises of many things. We have to be quicker in compare to other groups and individuals. In this week we mainly planned our term, so, that we know that what we have to in this term to complete our project. We are absolutely sure that we are going to do a raffle, and a concert. Our wrist band plan is not going that well because we are not sure that we will be able to sell all of them.
 * Term 2 - week 1**

In week 2 we are going through all our plans all over again and this time we decided to not to go with our wrist bands plan because we already have enough on our plates and we think we wouldn't have been able to raise much money through it. So, finally we have decided to stick with the concert and the raffle. Ben is organizing everything for the concert but for the raffle all of us are contributing. We need money so we have decided to contact Ms.Edawrds for money.
 * Term 2 - week 2**

In the first lesson of our research project in week 3 i went to the front office to book an appointment with Ms. Edwards so that i can talk to her about the money but was unable to book one because she was too busy, but later that week i was able to find Ms.Edwards and she told me to write a letter to her. So, in our last lesson i wrote a letter and sent it to her. In that week me, Onn and Darren went around the school to get a rough estimate about how many people are going to buy raffle ticket.
 * Term 2 - week 3**

Week four has started and we have started selling raffle tickets as well. The first day we made $16. On the second day we went around the school in our RPR lesson and we were able to collect $105. We also booked cameras so that we can take pictures and record performances. In the last lesson of the week we are just preparing for our concert.
 * Term 2 - week 4**

This was a big week. In the first lesson of the week we just went around telling people about the concert and making sure that everything was alright in the hall so that we can hold the concert properly. On the day we got a news as well which was not good for us; Mr partington had booked the hall on the same day as our concert so we didn't have the hall from the morning. We only got approximately ten minutes to organize everything. The concert turned out to be good one we approximately made 120 dollars from the concert and number of people came.
 * Term 2 - week 5**

This was a easy work for us. In the first lesson we counted the money we made earned from the concert and the raffle, the money added up to $400. After counting the money we gave it to Vuong and he is going to donate it to mercy corps organization. At the end of the week Ms.Mcinnes told us that after doing all the stuff we have to present it in a proper way. So we decided to make a video in which we can describe what we learned in the whole year and what we did for Haiti. We recorded ourselves on a camera saying what we did for the group and for Haiti.
 * Term 2 - week 6**


 * [[image:HelpForHaitiPoster.jpg width="641" height="1641"]]

Our banners created by VUONG NGUYEN. Term 2 - week 7** On Monday we didn't have a lesson because all the year eleven's had a excursion, so our presentation was postponed to Tuesday. On Tuesday we showed the whole class the video we made and we got good results from it as well but their was one problem. We had crossed the time limit each group was going to get for their presentation. Overall we were happy with our effort. We also had to judge the work of other people and give a mark to it on the discussion page.

This was the week in which we finished our subject and our journey. We just had edit our journals and fill in couple of sheets which will show our growth through the semester. I really enjoyed doing this subject and i know that i have learned number of things by doing this project.
 * Term 3 - week 8**

//**The hats**//

Red hat (emotions) I felt really good about our research project. One of the main reasons for that was, we got to help some people who really needed some help. I felt really strongly about this because when i used to see the news related to Haiti earthquake i actually felt like doing something. Apart from the main feeling of doing something for somebody, other emotions were also involved. Some of my emotions were; happiness, anxiousness, stress, joy and concern.

Yellow Hat (Good points) It was worth doing because we helped number of people in Haiti. It helped us because; from this project we learnt number of new skills and according to me most importantly we learnt how to appreciate the work of other people. We improved some of our other skills as well like; communication skills and group skills.

Black hat (Bad points) Couple of bad things happened during our project. It wasn’t that we learnt something bad but it was just some problems which occurred during the project. Some of them were; we set too high costs for the raffle tickets it affected us because it might have resulted in selling of less tickets. One more thing which went wrong was that Mr.partington booked the hall just before the concert so we got less time to organize ourselves. So, these were the minor problems or bad points during our journey.

Green hat (Creativity) Before starting the initial fund raising process we came up with number of ideas to raise money. Some of them were; car wash, wrist band selling, raffle, concert and a casual day. We were able to come up with these kind of ideas because all of us were some how related to the ideas we came up with. What I mean from this is that we came up with these ideas because we were interested in them as well.

White hat (information) The information we had about this topic was the information we gained while doing the project. Along with the information about the earthquake we also needed some other information which would’ve helped us to donate the money, like which is the best organization to donate the money to. Along with all this we also got to know about the “Republic of Haiti”.

Blue hat (organization of thinking) To come up with the fund raising ideas we had to work ourselves through quite a number of strange problems. I’m using the word strange because none of us had done anything like this before so all the problems which occurred were new and strange to us. So, we had to think quite a bit before finalizing our ideas.



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