growing up in cities

Monivae Youth Drawings and Descriptions

There is a Photo Album called Monivae Youth Drawings and Descriptions to the left of the banner - click on this and you can see 12 drawings and dsecriptions of life for young people living in the Hamilton region from Monivae Secondary College .

Image from Madalene

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

Project ideas for Growing up in Regional Victoria

Hi, this is Karen from RMIT - it is good to see the WEBLOG is already being used for talking amongst yourselves. In terms of your project ideas- when you get to the point of being ready to post something then post it as a comment on this posting. It need not be too detailed - around say 100-150 words. Let us know what you would like to research - possibly presented as a research question you'd like to answer or an issue you'd like to explore and how you would like to do your reserach work - identify a method or research tool or tools that you would like to use as part fo the project, for example guided tours, photography, video interviews etc... Once we have this information we will then be able to give you some advice on resources and some tricks of the trade!! You can continue to post thoughts on any of the forums on this WEBLOG and if you want to start a new posting around a particular topic (remember your resear ch project might incorporate the use of the WEBLOG) just let me know and I will put one up for you. Nice to meet you all over the past few days - and keep in touch.

The image below is from Josh K who drew a picture of his farm in Condah a part of his survey.