Post-amazing race survey results

We've created the survey and only so far 2 people did the survey. I've checked the summary of the results and the results are here:

What do you think about station 1: Running around?

It was well done! 2 100%
It was a mess! 0 0%
It was okay. 0 0%
Other 0 0%


What do you think about station 2: tchoukball?

It was well done! 2 100%
The game was messy, and the teams were in a huge mess! 0 0%
No opinion. It was okay. 0 0%


What do you think about station 3: Rockwall climbing?

It was great, and it went smoothly! 2 100%
It's pretty messy, and the teams were in a mess too. 0 0%
No opinion. Fine with it. 0 0%
Other 0 0%


What do you think about station 4: basketball shootout?

It was awesome! 1 50%
It was not organised properly. 0 0%
Neutral 1 50%
Other 0 0%


What do you think about station 5: finding the clue?

It was fun! 1 50%
Too boring and lame. 1 50%
Neutral. 0 0%
Other 0 0%


What do you think about station 6: rearranging prices?

It was interesting and enriching. 1 50%
The station was a mess and too hard. 1 50%
It was okay, neutral. 0 0%
Other 0 0%


What do you think about station 7: soccer?

FUN! 2 100%
Needs more improvement 0 0%
Messy sometimes. 0 0%
Neutral.. 0 0%
Other 0 0%


What are some improvements to be made?
"the information is messy! NEED to arrange it better, organise them better as the information was flying around during tat day."

"I feel that all the stations and the whole race is absolutely well-planned and carried out. It's probably the best race I've ever participated. Though i think that a few more stations to the whole race would be nice if time permits."


Would you like to have another amazing race like this in the future?
"HELL YES!" "ABSOLUTELY!!!"


What went wrong during the race?

"too much issues! 1st: Teams was in a mess in a station like station6. 2nd: Information sheets was all around the floor, and it was very messy. 3rd: Some stations have too much things to do...The timer "accidently" restarted the time halfway through the race. Other than that everything went smoothly."

"Great Job !! 5 Thumbs up ^_^"


Overall impression on the amazing race?

Amazingly fun! 1 50%
Pretty fun 1 50%
Neutral, it was okay. But needs some improvements. 0 0%
TOTALLY BAD! It needs LOTS OF IMPROVEMENTS! 0 0%


HERE ARE THE RESULTS. We will be adding more if more responses are made.

YOG Italy Amazing Race

I think that I'll just choose one of the following restaurants
not to confuse everybody. Shall we choose Pasta Brava?
-it is more italian cuisine than San Marco
-it is rated one pf the best in Singapore.

Term 2 week 2 reflection Yong Yi

Places that I've found

1. Top Italian Restaurants in Singapore

-San Marco

Address:
8th Floor, The Fullerton Singapore, 1 Fullerton Square
Ph:6438 4404

Area: -
Cuisine: Fusion,
International,

Italian

-Pasta Brava

Address:
11 Craig Road
Ph:6227 7550

Area: -
Cuisine: European,

Italian

-Les Amis

Address:
1 Scotts Road,Shaw Centre #02-16
Ph:6733 2225

Area: -
Cuisine: French,
Italian,

Western

-Garibaldi Restaurant & Bar

Address:
#01 -02, 36 Purvis Street
Ph:68371468

Area: -
Cuisine: European,

Italian

-Ristorante Bologna

Address:
6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Mandarin
Ph:6845 1111

Area: -

Cuisine: Italian

-Oso Italian Ristorante

Address: 27 Tanjong Pagar Road Ph:6327 8378 Area: - Cuisine: European, Italian

-Forlino@One Fullerton

Address:
1 Fullerton Road, #02-06, One Fullerton
Ph:8776995

Area: -

Cuisine: Italian

-Sweet Indulgence

Address:
2 Stanley Street
Ph:6223 7707

Area: -
Cuisine: European,
Fusion,
Italian,
Seafood,
Western

2. Embassy Of Italy

101, Thomson Road #27-02
United Square
Singapore 307591
Tel +65 62506022
Fax +65 62533301
E-mail: ambasciata.singapore@esteri.it

3. Italian Cultural Institute

43A Beach Road, Level 2, Evershine & Century Complex, Singapore 189682

By MRT: City Hall/Bugis Station

By bus: 7, 14, 16, 36, 56, 57, 77, 100, 106, 107, 111, 130, 131, 133, 162, 167, 171, 502, 518, 700, 857, 960, 961, 980. Some of these lines stop at the National Library or at the Raffles Hotel.

Term 2 Week 1 reflection- Yong Yi

Amazing Race

-Sentosa

Clues

-Station 1: Volley Ball Courts around sand{Siloso Beach

In this station, players will have to find a pair of slippers in the sand and bury themselves in sand for 15 minutes.

-Station 2: Cowboy's virtual range{Desperados

In this station, players will have a virtual shoot out, players will have to shoot at least 15 bandits to move onto the next station.

-Station 3: Under the sea with jumping mammals{Underwater world, the dolphin lagoon

Players will meet a host outside the underwater world building, they will be going into the Dolphin's lagoon and be trained how to train a dolphin and must be able to touch the dolphin with a photo taken before moving to the next round.

-Station 4: America in Singapore{Universal Studios

In this station, players will be going through the Ancient Egypt Ride in a motor car. After the ride, they will draw what they had seen in the ride with their eyes close and ask passer-bys to rate it ?/5 stars. Players will need to get 4 stars or above to go on to the checkpoint or else start a new drawing.

Checkpoint: The Merlion, players will go all the way up to the top of the merlion to check in.

Prizes: 1^st A free experience driving the luge and experiencing the skyride.

2^nd A free trip on the Tiger Skyride.

I will be at the 1^st station

You Hao will be at the 2^nd station

Jovi will be at the 3^rd station

Zachariah will be at the 4^th station.

Then I will be there at the checkpoint when any team have completed the race.

IT'S TERM 2!

Goodbye Term 1, Hello Term 2!

Now for term 2, we have some major objectives for IPW lessons of term 2:

- Complete the brochure for the semester's presentation.
- Complete Day 1 and Day 2's itinerary with details on each event.
- Complete the meal plans and plans how the events should be carried out.
- Prepare the itinerary and decide, analyse it, and make any minor and major last corrections before the presentation.

For semester 2 mostly would be EDITING and some is doing the rest of the whole tour. That's all for term 2, if i miss out any, please tell me (especially team mates).

- Jovi

Week 10 Reflection - Jovi

Since we've done our 1/4 of the whole itinerary. I've asked Zachariah about the brochure and he said he's designing it. But however, we need to speed up our process. In which, we need to look more at those websites, those webs with good details and ideas for our project. Anyway, for Yong Yi's case, I need to get some events to let him manage. But currently he's doing the amazing race planning and we've planned for the amazing race to be on the second day.

For you hao's case, he didn't know much and I think it would be better now if he got his macbook (he has it now though). With the macbook, we can do research together and need not worry about his case. :) That's a relieve! :D

- Jovi

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 9

Our Information Sources
Class: 2 Francis Group: The Last-one Standers Date: 15 March 2010

Types of sources
Examples:

Tick () those that you have referred to

Primary sources*

Diaries, letters, journals



Experiments



Films, photographs, paintings



Interviews (e.g. resource persons/experts, organisations)




Oral histories



Questionnaires, surveys



Speeches



Statistics (e.g. census data, land surveys)


b) Secondary sources*
Audio-visual resources (e.g. films, videos, audio tapes)




Books



Brochures/Pamphlets



CD-ROMs



Charts/Maps



Editorials



Films, film strips, videos



Magazines



Newspapers



Reviews



Textbooks



Vertical files**



Websites


* - Primary sources provide raw data or information that has not been processed
or interpreted, unlike secondary sources.
** - These are files that contain newspaper and magazine articles on selected topics.


Progress Chart of Project Work

Every group should fill in this chart by writing down the task and the date in the appropriate cell when you have completed a task.

Task

Stage 1 : Project Definition/Clarification
M1 Search for brochures, for an idea.
M2 Search for itineraries on those tourism board websites, etc
M3 Look at films concerning of other events like “the amazing race show”
M4 Look at the websites with a suitable meal for sportsmen to get idea.

Stage 2 : Acquisition, Application and Integration of Information

M1 Use the gathered details and come with a suitable brochure
M2 Know how people plan itinerary and apply skills on it.
M3 Know how to organise the events properly.
M4 Know what to put on a meal.

Stage 3 : Presentation

M1 Do the brochure to tell about our project.
M2 Prepare the itinerary for the first part of the whole tour.
M3 Plan greater details on each event.
M4 Prepare the meals.

** M - Member

This Week's Progress

WEEK 10's PROGRESS.

Ater the Item 2 (breakfast) on day 1,

Item 3
0930 hrs – 1330 hrs : Singapore Tour Drive Part l

Detailed Details:

≈ Drive around the South and East part of Singapore (places in Southern and Eastern parts of Singapore).

≈ Places are such: (to be double confirmed at a later date, sorry!)

Item 4
1330 hrs - 1430 hrs : Lunch at the stopover in the tour

Detailed Details:

To be done next IPW lesson.

Here's our progress so far. In conclusion, this week we've decided on the item 3 which is after the item 2 and item 4 after the singapore tour drive Part 1. We'd be deciding the places to go for item 3, and the place to eat for item 4 on the next IPW lesson. Ciao!

- Jovi

Week 8 Reflection - You Hao

I think we can have some of the food like the chinese food, for example: Chinese Porridge, Chinese You Tiao, chicken rice hainanese version. We can also have some western food that i know, Nachos (the mexican side loves it i think), Spaghetti (most people should love it), Hot dogs (popular food among the world!!!).

For desert, we can have some pie, cherry pie or APPLE PIE (they should love it), we can also have some chinese-asian hot desert like Black Sesame Paste, Almond paste, or whatever paste... But most important is we shouldn't make the lunch too much dishes, until their stomach burst..

- You Hao

Week 8 Reflection-Yong Yi

Day 1

We can bring them to the Marina Square, since Jovi suggested about shopping. But the shopping will be at night, like what Mr.Wong commented.

After that we can also bring them around the Shenton Way to show them around as

Day 2 is the Amazing race, they can get to know the area and be prepared for the race.

For lunch, we can let them get to know the type of food we eat and bring them to the Old market.

- Yong Yi

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 8

Last week we've done our survey and we've gotten the results. Here's the results after the survey have been conducted last week, Here's the details:

1. Most of the sportsmen is usually around the teen age to the young adult age. (14 to 21 years old approximately) Hence, our itinerary should have more events that we teenagers like - we should know ourselves though in our whole planning.

2. Most of the sportsmen love to relax and chill-out, and exercise (of course). So we can roughly have some physical events and some relaxing events in our itinerary.

3. The sportsmen do not mind eating asian food, but they prefer western food. However, the asian can accept both of the types of food. Thus, we can go to a special restaurant and perhaps request them to have a western-asian type of dish, like combining curry and some nachos in a dish for appetiser, FOR EXAMPLE.

4. We should go shopping at night as most prefer to go shopping at night rather than shopping in the afternoon or in the morning. So we should put the shopping time after dinner, maybe the first and last day of the tour.

Okay thats all we got from the survey. I think we'd a rough idea what should we plan in the itinerary. :P

- Jovi

This Week's Progress

WEEK 8's PROGRESS.


This is our progress sheet for week 8 lesson, we've done the first 2 hours of the day 1. We'll continue further next lesson, right now, we're discussing what to do after the breakfast. Perhaps we can go somewhere? We've to check the Singapore Tourism Board website for some examples on the itinerary, we might get some great ideas there that could aid us in our itinerary-planning. ;)

Week 7 Reflection - Yong Yi

For the 'Amazing Race', I suggest that we don't take the whole of Singapore, instead, we just take a small area of Singapore like the south: Marina Bay area as the small race.

I discourage using the pencil holder as the souvenir, I think we should design something like....

a small keychain?

We can also invite them to our houses instead of letting them live in a hotel so that they can feel at home and also adapt to the culture of Singapore.

Week 7 Reflection - Jovi

Well, Mr.Wong mentioned that maybe we could make the shopping to be at night. I agree with that point, I also discussed with the rest of my team that we should have the shopping at night as night time as mentioned by me is a perfect time for shopping and the best mood of the day for shopping. Most shopping centres also open late, according to Zach. Yes, i do believe so. :)

Well anyway, I shall put zach in the designing part for the souvenir. And for yong yi, you should be doing about the manpower. For you hao, i want you to do the dishes for dinner and breakfast and lunch. :)

All's set? we shall start our discussion ASAP!

- Jovi

Worksheet 6 - Image

Here's the survey that we've planned to let the sportsmen take. They've to do it by heart and honestly and no plagiarism. :)
After the survey, we would roughly know what type of sportsmen will be coming to Singapore and what type of program will they like, some cool and boastful events, or whatever.

Anyway i couldn't use Grab to take the doc as the grab formats were in .TIFF format and the blogger don't allow it. LIKE DAMN :(

Week 6 - Zachariah's Reflection

Hi Everyone,

Happy Chinese New Year! Hope you all had a good rest and collected a lot of Ang Pow money during the long weekend!

Anyway, as Jovi has recommended we can have an amazing race around Singapore for the athletes, we can have different stations around Singapore such as Little India, Geylang Serai, Chinatown, and Orchard Road. At each station, we can have mini games or challenges to help the athletes get to know Singapore better. The winning group can get complimentary tickets to the Singapore Flyer or Sentosa.

That's all for today's reflection. Hope all of you study hard and do well for the coming common tests. Bye!

-Zachariah

Week 6 Reflection - Jovi

Please do update your reflection regularly. After each IPW lesson, I hope everyone of you post your reflection of that week. Do not wait for last minute to do it. The results of the last-minute reflection wouldn't be as good as a cherry pie. ;P Anyway, do your weekly reflections by one day before the IPW lesson, I really wish you'd cooperate with me and other team mates, together we're a team right?

Anyway, I'm glad that we're managed to finish 3 quarters of the itinerary for Day 1 of the tour. We're not done with the events ineach item. Our meals are not decided yet, especially where to dine and what dishes to order. We need more information and in depth ones on that part of our project. We've planned an amazing race in Raffles Place as a event in Day 1 and we need your ideas what to do and what will it be like for the amazing race.

We still need events to take place in the Raffles Place, Clarke Quay and Suntec city - apart from shopping, tell me with i miss out any events.

So please cooperate and do your regular reflections. We'll discuss in depth about our project in the next comin' week. :D
Happy CNY!

- Jovi

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 5

There's 3 pages to be done in this worksheet document. The images are in arrangement of - 1, 2, 3 according to the document arrangement. Taken in Prt-screen, please ignore those irrelevant stuff in the screen of the image if it irritates you deeply. For references ad judging purposes only. No copying wholesale. :) Copyrighted.

- Jovi, Group Leader

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 4

Worksheet 4 image. Click on picture to get a clear vision of the worksheet. Ignore the applications bar ontop and below the screen if it irritates you deeply.

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 3

The following picture is the document needed to be done and I've posted it up for judging purposes and references. Please click on the image to get a clearer vision of the image (after all, it's too small when you see from the blog).

The image is taken using Prt+screen. Do ignore the applications and stuff on top and below the desktop screen if it irritates you deeply. ;p


- Jovi

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 2

Here's the picture of the worksheet 2, I used print screen to get this, so hopefully the applications below and on top won't make you feel irritated or something (it can be irritating like some bee in your eyes sometimes). :)

- Jovi, Group Leader

Worksheet Image - Worksheet 1

Worksheet 1 image, click on the image to get a clear view of it. Using prt-screen to get it, so hope you can understand what I've stated.

Week 3 - You Hao's Reflection

Hi,
We can bring them to tourists attractions such as Singapore's Chinatown where evolved around 1821 when the first Chinese junk arrived from Xiamen, Fujian province in China. The passengers, all men, set up home around the south of the Singapore River which is known today as Telok Ayer. Chinatown’s local name - Niu Che Shui (Bullock Cart Water) arose from the fact each household at that time had to collect fresh water from the wells in Ann Siang Hill and Spring Street, using bullock-drawn carts.

-You Hao

Week 4 Reflection - Yong Yi

We have already find out about their age group and what sport they're doing.

Like DnT, we can make souvenirs(not pencil holder) to the sportsmen.

So that they can leave a good impression on Singapore...

- Yong Yi

Week 1 worksheet - Image

This is the image of the week 1 worksheet that we're supposed to put up on. This is not the whole page but this is the important one. This image may not include certain instructions in the real page.

*Image not done, need teacher's advise.

I will be doing further on the itinerary! :D

Week 5 Reflection - Jovi

So, we have think about the first day planning on week 4, but we need to think of the activites in those places, maybe a treasure hunt there in the Singapore flyer, or something like "Spot the building" while inside the Singapore flyer cabin? We're thinking on those for week 5 and we've decided to tell our plans for week 6 lesson. I will prepare a word document and write down our itinerary. We must try to do half of the itinerary of the Tour by this semester.

This is to prepare us for the presentation at the end of this semester. Hopefully the judges could leave a good impression on us. And I think we should do more preparations! We're definitely wasting every IPW lesson doing the author permission stuff, we need more TIME DISCUSSING!!!!!! Week 6 lesson, i am gonna start the discussion, I will kick off the author request and blog matters OUT for all lessons. We must start our research and discussion.

Yong yi - please DO your reflections.
Zachariah - please DO your reflections.
You hao - I will set your google acc asap during my freetime, and i will pass it to u thru facebook. :D

- Jovi

Week 4 - Reflection

Now what we've discussed about week 4 is the famous visitor sites that are popular in Singapore. We also discussed about the sportsman group age, they're approximately 14 - 21 years old right?

So we also think that we should bring them to some places that they would like. Singapore Flyer is one of our decisions, and we think we're gonna bring them to Sentosa, which I think they would definitely like it. After all, they're roughly teenagers, we could also bring them to some historical sites in Singapore, we would not spend much time there - maybe 1 hour or 30 minutes will do. After all, we know they might get bored by it, and we wouldn't want it to happen.

I am gonna upload the documents for Week 1, 2, 3, 4 worksheets on the blog real soon, be sure to check out,

Yong yi, do your week 3, 4, 5 reflection.
Zachariah, do your week 4 and 5 reflection.
You hao, you're an exception, the next IPW lesson, I will try to make your google account. Hopefully you are able to access the blog to post your reflections. :D

- Jovi

Week 3 - Zachariah's Reflection

Hi everyone!

Sorry for not posting regularly, I had some problems logging into blogger. Anyway, everything is solves and you can expect to see my reflection every week starting from now!

Anyway, as Jovi has suggested we can bring the athletes from around the world to some of Singapore's most famous tourists attractions such as the Singapore Flyer, the Merlion Park, the National Museum, Fort Canning Park and Sentosa. As for the introduction of Singapore's cuisine to the athletes, we can bring them to try some of Singapore's delicacies such as, chicken rice, oyster omelette, char kway teow, etc. However, we should try not to bring them to try Singapore's famous chilli crab or laksa as these foods are spicy and may result in a stomach ache and affect their performance during the YOG.

Well, I think that's all for my Week 3 reflection. Hope Youhao would be able to have access to the blog asap. Bye!


-Zachariah

Week 3 Reflection - Jovi

Hello! Well, this blog is inactive sometimes, and I am trying to update ASAP, well, apart from the studies, I still have to care about my Council stuff. And I hope Zachariah and You Hao can try to get the author permission SOON! Oh crap. I think our group's reflection is very BAD.

Anyway for week 3, we have gather roughly what our main focus of the itinerary of the YOG sportsman 3-day tour. The main purpose is to let them know WELL about Singapore's culture, and Singapore being a unique country. :) So I am planning to bring them to the seven wonders of Singapore and maybe let them to taste our Singapore cuisine and hopefully they know HOW UNIQUE IS SINGAPORE!

So, Zachariah and You Hao, i wish you all get it done ASAP (the author permission). If not, I can ask Yong Yi for help, because he had the author permission. Anyway, Yong Yi and me are able to post our reflections, and Yong Yi, thanks for writing your reflection for week 2, now whats left for you is the week 3's reflection, I will remind you to do it tomorrow.

So, for this week 4's lesson, we will be planning our day 1 itinerary half of it. Which is from sunrise to noon time. :D

Happy schooling! :D

- Jovi

Week 2 Reflection - Yong Yi

I suggest we gather all the research that we have noted from our DnT research questions as we also did the same topic(YOG) for DnT. So that, we can easily know what our plan for the tour will be.

Like that, it will make the planning and project easier and convenient. Besides, we have also did research homework for the sportsman age group and mostly where theyre from.... So right, we can know what they will expect, and their expections of the whole tour. Like that, our task would definitely be much easier, right?

And most of the sportsman is in the western and asian. So we might wanna combine the meals in a western and asian way, so that asians and westerns can enjoy their meals. For the excursion and etc, I have not confirm yet.... so i think we'll discuss further on week 3 or week 4.

- yong yi

Jovi's Reflection

I think that this week, we have done deciding what title for our IPW research project, and we did some research about our topic. Our topic we have selected is "Youth Olympic Games 2010 3-day tour Planing" in short form (YOG). I think that this topic is interesting and exciting we are Singaporeans, and we're planning a 3-day tour around Singapore, and I feel excited to bring them to places that I like, and they might like it as well. After all, they're tourism attractions anyway.

Anyway, I feel that the topic really suits our group, we're all Singaporeans - well maybe 1 of our group members aren't. But, I still think that our group will like it, after all, we live in Singapore right? Anyway, i feel excited doing research - maybe I should start my research! :D Anyway, I better do my work first. ._.

So here's my reflection after the week 3 lesson. :) Signing off from here.

- Jovi, Group Leader.
p.s. Lets start the research ASAP. :P

Brainstorming For Ideas

We need ideas on what are we planing to do for the GRACE (IPW) group project. Either a solar-powered appliances, or something that is creative, and I hope that all group members should be able to come up with an idea. At least one. I have an idea of making something that is environment-friendly. And what do I mean by that is that the thing we're gonna make is something friendly to the environment. It won't destroy the environment for sure.

Anyway, do send me your suggestions or ideas on what we're gonna make for GRACE asap. I wanna get a rough idea what we will be doing, before we start the research and those stuff.

Remember that:
- It should be environmentally-friendly object - save the planet!
- It should be something not too extreme isane - e.g. a rocket to space.
- It should be relevant.
- It shouldn't be crap.

Please send to my email. :) Chat on me on facebook to get my email.

- Jovi, I wonder what shall we make...

Welcoming Speech!

Welcome fellow group members or viewers or teachers. We're the group 38-42 of Class 2 Francis in the year 2010 for the GRACE (IPW) this year. This is our group blog. It's actually still on maintenance still, but we'll try to get this done as soon as possible. Anyway, for group members, I will let you know about the blog settings, and those blog administrative small stuff. Hopefully, enjoy your visit!

- Jovi, Group member