GUIRV research workshops feedback

Over the past two days we held student workshops in Heywood and Hamilton with students from your two schools Heywood Secondary College and Monivae Secondary College. You had the chance to try a number of different research techniques/tools including guided tours, photography, video interviews, surveys and behaviour mapping. How did you like it? Any feedback? Did you like being able to participate in collecting data yourself rather than reading about information others have written for you? Any advice to others about the techniques in case they want to use them in their own projects?

Any ideas for projects?  - Karen

Comments

[AdaM Mc]

Hey Karen,
im thinking of doing me assignment on renovating, and creating skateparks in Hamilton and Casterton.
I am working with Scratch Butler and Jimmy Munro. We are able to use interviewing, photgrapghy and surveys.

Our group are ready and willing to go to Hamilton and district skateparks to get our information and evidence.

Thanx,
AdAm Mc

[Josh Keightley & Josh Kearney]

Charlies Diner in Hamilton

There should be a Charlie’s diner in Hamilton because we need more restaurants like these because they are very popular with the townsfolk and would create lot money and bring a lot of tourists from other regions of Victoria to come and have dinner here. Hamilton is a popular town in sporting events in this region and if there is no Charlies or other Restaurants it causes frustration to people visiting here especially when other places like La Porchetta are all booked out and the only other restaurants are all take away foods and some people might want a decent dinner with friends or family, so if there is a Charlies here they will be able to do that and also have there favourite foods in an all you can eat menu. So if a Charlies is to come to Hamilton it will increase tourism, popularity and put a smile on a lot of people’s faces.

Would you like it if a Charlie’s diner was put in Hamilton?
Would you go to Charlie's often if it was in Hamilton?

[nicole]

Roads

Group:
Laura Nelson
Ashlee Sullivan
Nicole Wheelhouse

Are roads unsafe???

Laura travels to school everyday from Heywood to Hamilton and finds the roads are not that safe to drive on. There are ditches and bumpy bits, potholes, there breaking up on the side, and when it rains its slippery.
Nicole travels to school and on her way there is a pot hole that the car has to dodge because it’s so big.

[Michelle Jansen]

Josh Gunning, Buddy Linke and Michelle Jansen.

Not enough Teenage activities.

The Yr 8s of Monivae College reckon there is too little activities for teenagers. They would like to see more social and sport activities like parties, socials, freezes, sporting completions for shooting, hockey, football, skateboarding, netball, squash, table tennis and basketball. The teenagers are getting board that they lie to their parents about going to a friend’s house, and go down the street looking for trouble. This trouble leads to problems and disharmony in the family. So if the teenagers have more activities they would first off stay out of trouble, second have fun and third socialise.

Q1 What do you do on an afternoon?
Q2 What do you do on an afternoon with your friends?
Q3 How many sports do you play?
Q4 How many times a week do you socialise with your friends?
Q5 Do you want more activities to do?

[Beka & Emma & Shazza]

Topic: Public Toilets in Hamilton

Back ground: After having many experiences at these toilets in Hamilton I.G.A toilets, Skate park toilets, Pedrina park toilets, The botanical garden toilets, lake toilets, Melville oval toilets there have been many things wrong with these they absolutely stink they don’t have soap and paper towel most the time or Evan toilet paper they are so dirty u cant move in them they barely ever get cleaned they are just disgusting and they are not good enough for Evan dogs to go to.
Methods of Reserch: We are going to do interveiws and take pics.

[Michelle Jansen]

Josh Gunning, Buddy Linke and Michelle Jansen.

Not enough Teenage activities.

The Yr 8s of Monivae College reckon there is too little activities for teenagers. They would like to see more social and sport activities like parties, socials, freezes, sporting completions for shooting, hockey, football, skateboarding, netball, squash, table tennis and basketball. The teenagers are getting board that they lie to their parents about going to a friend’s house, and go down the street looking for trouble. This trouble leads to problems and disharmony in the family. So if the teenagers have more activities they would first off stay out of trouble, second have fun and third socialise.

Q1 What do you do on an afternoon?
Q2 What do you do on an afternoon with your friends?
Q3 How many sports do you play?
Q4 How many times a week do you socialise with your friends?
Q5 Do you want more activities to do?

Techniques of study:
Video interview, surveys, interviews and behaviour maping.

[Josh Keightley, Josh Kearney ,Ben Lakie, Brady Hicks & David Fry]

Charlies Diner in Hamilton

There should be a Charlie’s diner in Hamilton because we need more restaurants like these because they are very popular with the townsfolk and would create lot money and bring a lot of tourists from other regions of Victoria to come and have dinner here. Hamilton is a popular town in sporting events in this region and if there is no Charlies or other Restaurants it causes frustration to people visiting here especially when other places like La Porchetta are all booked out and the only other restaurants are all take away foods and some people might want a decent dinner with friends or family, so if there is a Charlies here they will be able to do that and also have there favourite foods in an all you can eat menu. So if a Charlies is to come to Hamilton it will increase tourism, popularity and put a smile on a lot of people’s faces.

Would you like it if a Charlie’s diner was put in Hamilton?
Would you go to Charlie's often if it was in Hamilton?
Do you think it would be popular?
Where do you think the best spot is to put it?
Do you think the Mayor will aprove of this?

Method!
Behaviour Mapping

[nicole, laura, ashlee]

Roads

Group:
Laura Nelson
Ashlee Sullivan
Nicole Wheelhouse

Are roads unsafe???

Laura travels to school everyday from Heywood to Hamilton and finds the roads are not that safe to drive on. There are ditches and bumpy bits, potholes, there breaking up on the side, and when it rains its slippery.
Nicole travels to school and on her way there is a pot hole that the car has to dodge because it’s so big.

We are going to do photography and interviews to try and make our research projects successful

[Brady Hicks, Ben Lakie, David Fry]

Members of our group= Brady Hicks, Ben Lakie, David Fry

THEME PARK!!

Hamilton should have a theme park because it will raise money for charities in need for food and shelter. It will also make Hamilton a popular tourist attraction. We can build the theme park on the showgrounds. It will be open between 10:00am to 10:00pm. The price for kids under five years of age is free. Children over five years of age are $6:80. All teenagers are $10:00. Adults are $12.00. Some of the rides will include “The Lethal Weapon”, “Dodgem Cars”, “Slug gun shooting at the toy ducks” and heaps more. The food will include Daggle dogs, hamburgers, chips and all of the fizzy drinks!!

1) How do we get the money to pay for all of this?
2) Can we please plant more trees?
3) Can you please donate bins?
4) Can you please get a “Charlies Diner”?

[shaun, josh t, john]

Sporting events and facilities

We have chosen to do this because kids are getting less interested in sport so they will just sit inside all day and get fat so we need more sport to get them interested in sport again also it is a good way to keep fit. Also we chose it because of the high amount of people who put down sport as their favourite activity.

MEMBERS OF GROUP: JOSH TYRRELL, JOHN TRAYNOR, SHAUN GANNON

Our group is looking to see if there is a call to increase the amount of sporting events and facilities in our regional area. To see this we will be going into town to see how people relate to the sporting events and facilities of Hamilton, we will also be video taping areas we think would be a good spot for these events. We will be asking questions such as

1. Are you happy with the level of sport in your community?


2. Would you be happy if more sporting events became available?

3. Are you involved with any sporting clubs already?

4. Would it help for other people if we got new sports?

5. What new sports would you like to come available?

6. Were would be a good spot for these facilities?

7. Would you participate in these sports if they are available?

[jack]

hi dont have a clue what mr simkin is telling me to do but that day was fun

[Chris]

The five Things that i learnt on friday was:

[Jess O]

5 things I learnt on Friday:

1) People like living in Hamilton because it is a friendly town

2) People think Hamilton caters for everyone

3) Hamilton has many significant places

4) Older people with more time where easier to interview

5) To get someone to do you interview you have to be very polite.

[Michael Lonsdale]

on tuesday i learnt that people in other countries also may have the same interests as i do. i also learnt that hamilton had a history centre and everything major was recorded their.
Also Mcdonalds is a choice place to hang out or just wait for friends.
in the workshop i realised that there are a lot of ways to find out about a town.

[Sir Thomas Anthony Warburton the 3rd]

1: I learnt the meeting places for various members of the community
2: i learnt to use differrent cameras
3: hamilton cbd isn't busy in the daytime
4: don't lose team members
5: wat the bottle shop does in case of robberies

[Jordan M]

On tuesday i learnt that using a behavior map is good for seeing where people go and what times things are most popular to go to.
i also learnt that some people dont like to be interviewed beacause they might be too busy.
Older people have more time to be interviewed.
We asked some people about living in hamilton and they are generally happy with it.
I also learnt that beacuse we went at about 11 30 most people were busy instead of just going for a shop but if i went back at another time it would be different

[Nicole T]

5 things i learnt on Tuesday:
1) Hamilton have alot of significant places
2) alot of people are nice and they didn't mind us interviewing them
3) you must charge your camera before using it
4)more shops are being built
5)Hamilton has alot of people have come for work

[hugh jass]

hey wats up

[Sir Lachie Polaski the 4th]

5 things i learnt on Tuesday.

1: Older people seem to have more time.

2: Not all people like being interviewed.

3: Younger people don't participate as much as older people.

4: Most people would rather get interviewed on a pice of paper instead of being infront of a camera.

5: The one thing people would change about Hamilton is the weather.

[Daniel]

Hello Karen,

5 things that i learnt on friday:

That lots of schools are doing this program.
There is a history store in Hamilton.
There is an airport in Hamilton.
People like Hamilton because it is a great place for their children.
The post office caame from scotland.

[jack bade]

the three things i learnt on tuesday is

1.that mcdonalds sell cones for 50cents its a rip off
2.that some guy donated a tree out the front of the art place
3.when interveiwing people you should tell them what you want the info for

[Chris]

A few things that i lernt were:

1.The where abouts of old buildings.

2.Locations where holtels used to be.

3. Some of Hamiltons history

[joel]

hi Karen
some of the things i learned r
1. it is easy(ier) to interview people in shops
2.older people give u more info
3.you must have good manners
4.u cant yell at people for a interview
5.and u cant b mean

[Jayden]

Hi Karen,
WE had to write five things about what we learnt on Tuesday so here they are:
1.Not alot of people wanted to get interviewed they found out we were going to use the video camera.
2.When we asked what they least liked most people said the weather.
3.A few people said thye moved here for work then stayed because they liked it here.
4.If you interview them with a camera you dont miss a word wheres witing you can.
5.A lot of buildings have changed heeps since they were put up

[sir bobby john johnson]

On tuesday we went down town for the guirv project. me jesse claire bianca clinton deo and shawi went om a guided tour. these are the 5 things i learnt
1 there is an anzac avenue in hamilton
2 the post office used to be an auction hall
3 more people where in the army from hamilton in world war 2 than any other rural town
4sorry dont have enough time to finish
get back 2 u later