Inquiry Project 3

I chose my inquiry project to be about the optical illusions since I was very interested how optical illusions work and things. At first I wanted to create an illusion myself to see how it works, but it wasn’t good enough so I chose my question as ‘Do optical illusions work through the eyes or the brains?’ First of all, I had to come up with an experiment that could prove something about my question. It took me quite a long time to figure out a way for the experiment.

My experiment:

1. chose 5 optical illusions

2. Show each of them to the audience twice

3. the first time without telling what will happen and on the second time, tell the audience what will happen.

4. My hypotenuse was that the first time they see the illusions, they may see something different than what it was meant to be, which means that the illusions that we see happens because we usually read the instructions before looking at the illusions.

The result of the beginning 3 people was not that satisfying because they all got the illusions almost perfectly. However, after that, I noticed that I accidentally left the instructions open. This is why I will exclude them from my result since there are chances that they may have seen the instruction. I have finished collecting all the datas from the participants except for Kayla. She can’t participate since she is sick. I am starting my presentation now. I hope that I could finish the powerpoint presentation by tomorrow.

I think even if my experiment was a failure  I have learned lots of things from this experiment such as being comfortable with asking people to participate in my experiment. I think this was the most interesting inquiry project yet ^^

October. 23th. 2012

I have decided that I would present this inquiry project about the space travel in a form of a documentary with me as a narrator, and remixed documentaries as the background. I almost finished the remixing documentary part. I just need to record my voice now. I think this project was a fun one.

October. 17th. 2012

I need to start taking videos from documentaries, by myself, and by making them. I hope that I will be able to finish the filming by next monday, so that I can start editing, and making my own documentary. I am actually pretty sure that I have learned lots of things in this project already. However, I think in this inquiry project, I will be spending more time with the presentation.

October. 16th. 2012

I continued doing the second inquiry project. I have already finished the research by watching documentaries from youtube and also looking up some informations on google. I plan to make a documentary about the space traveling. since i have 10 more days, I hope I can finish it by the due date.

The second inquiry project

Today, I kept watching the documentaries about the space traveling in order to find out what the dangers and difficulties of space traveling are. I found out lots of things in the youtube videos. As I began learning more and more things, I began to realize that what I knew was not all. Before I started this project, I felt like it was going to be too easy to finish since I know lots of difficulties in space like food problem and space.However, as I watched the videos, I found out that radiations, small pebbles in the space could also threaten the astronauts in the space. I am sure this project is going to be an interesting one ^^

October Scavenger Hunt

1a) Learning to cite and source – Scavenger hunt

1b) From Wikipedia Oct. 12. 2012

  • “Quotations: Add an inline citation when quoting published material, whether within quotation marks or not, whether using direct or indirect speech. When using footnotes, the citation should be placed in the first footnote after the quotation. In-text attribution is often appropriate.
  • Close paraphrasing: Add an inline citation when closely paraphrasing a source’s words. In-text attribution is often appropriate, especially for statements describing a person’s published opinions or words. In-text attribution is not appropriate for other forms of close paraphrasing, such as if you paraphrase “The sky is usually blue” as “The sky is often the color blue”.
  • Contentious statements about living people: Editors must take particular care adding biographical material about a living personto any Wikipedia page. Such material requires a high degree of sensitivity; do not leave unsourced information that may damage the reputation of living persons or organizations in articles.
  • Exceptional claims: Exceptional claims in Wikipedia require high-quality reliable sources (see WP:REDFLAG):
  • Surprising or apparently important claims not covered by mainstream sources;
  • Reports of a statement by someone that seems out of character, embarrassing, controversial, or against an interest they had previously defended;
  • Claims that are contradicted by the prevailing view within the relevant community, or which would significantly alter mainstream assumptions, especially in science, medicine, history, politics, and biographies of living persons, and especially when proponents consider that there is a conspiracy to silence them.
  • Other: Opinions, data and statistics, and statements based on someone’s scientific work should be cited and attributed to their authors in the text.”
2a)
Attribution – You need to say on the post that who made or created the image or the quote.
Noncommercial – You can’t make any profit with the image or the quote.
Share Alike – When you post this image or quote in your blog, you have to use the same or similar license.
2b)
License: BY-NC-SA
2c)
www.naver.com is one of the searchable site like google, but it is not as comfortable as Flicker to find good pictures.
3a)
“Do not announce my death. The fight is not over” – Lee Sunshin
this quote is also one of the quotes from a great general in Korea. He died on the sea protecting Korea from Japanese when they tried to invade us. He said this right before he died. he didn’t want the enemy to know that he was dead because he knew that they were afraid of him, and if they found out that he died, they would get much stronger.
4) Am I free to copy facts and ideas?

Yes. You are free to report the facts and ideas embodied in another person’s article or web page. Copyright only protects the expression — the combination of words and structure that expresses the factual information — not the facts themselves.” – https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/IP

This means that you are allowed to copy facts and ideas from someone else since it is called ‘learning’, however you can’t copy every single word of it or lie to other people that you wrote it.

second inquiry project

we started a new inquiry project today. I decided to do a project about space travel. I will research about the things about the problems of space traveling, and also see if my new way of moving a space ship using magnet would work or not. I look forward to it.

Today, we didn’t have lots of time. Aaron said that he would to the presentation and Lief said that he would send the pictures at home. I think we couldn’t really reach to the point where we wanted to. I think it might already have decided when we didn’t bring our robots to the school as we planned to. I hope that my next inquiry project would be much more satisfying. I don’t feel like smiling today.