Thursday, December 8, 2011

Success Criteria for Searching Smart

- Don't get distracted
Try to focus on the research and not go off topic

- Make sure you note the source of information
When I am doing my research, I always forget to look at the source to check whether the information I am getting is reliable.

- To learn how to search effectively
I tend to get distracted from researching when I don't get the information that I need/am looking for.

- To understand a different type of searching
Learning different ways to research and to see what works for me

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Aims & Rationale Reflection

AIMS
1) To successfully work as a group and complete the project.
- Make sure that all of the workload is evenly distributed
- Make sure all team members follows the time frame
- Make sure everyone knows exactly their roles and responsibilities
- Make sure everyone participates in all of the discussions and decision-making
- Make sure to record the minutes for every group meeting and decision made.
2) To raise awareness of deforestation, habitat loss, etc.
3) Educate the public on how our actions affects the whole world


RATIONALE
The realization that nothing is being done motivates us to raise more awareness on the severity of this issue. Furthermore, due to the deforestation in Malaysia for the palm oil plantations, it gives us a first-hand experience on how the society can neglect and just oversee the environment and how our actions are affecting it.

We got the idea to do our group project on climate change because of all the deforestation in Malaysia. Malaysia is a developing country that is constantly changing; a lot of Malaysia's forests are being cleared to make way for more plantations and buildings. For our aims we made sure a big part of it was making sure we worked well as a team because if we had a team that was not coordinated it would be very difficult to even complete the project. Having this criteria would help us work successfully as a team.