School Closed

Regrettably, we aren't able to go to school today to present our poster of awesomeness. @_@...

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Update as of 0730:

Because of heavy snow, the Burnaby and Surrey campuses of Simon Fraser
University are closed today (Tuesday).
Credit classes are cancelled today at the Vancouver campus, but the campus
itself is open, with limited activity.
The Burnaby childcare centre is closed.
Driving conditions on Burnaby Mountain are hazardous and bus service to the
Burnaby campus has been suspended.
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finding

My participant is a friend of friend of mine, Johnny Meng grade 11. I’ve seen him a few times before, so there wasn’t too much trouble while opening up the conversation. I asked him to do the probe for me but some of the probes weren’t printed out so I just asked him to tell me what he would do if he actually got the object. He described himself as 60 kg and 167cm tall, which seems to be honest. The self portrait he did was rather masculine which might indicate how he wants himself to look like.
The magazine I gave him included Times, People Magazine, Ultimate Racing, and Gaming world. He did not seem to have too much interest in commenting on the magazine because it was too much work to go through all the magazines and write down the comments. However, he did show some interest in the gaming magazine and start to talk to me about some of the games that he’s been playing lately.
As for the map, the places that he goes for food are a few bubble tea place located near his high school. Most of which are just one to two blocks away from his high school. Other places like McDonalds and Subways are also his choice of food. All of the places are near his school area. However he only goes to these places about once every two weeks. Other time he eats at home or brings food from home to school. The places he usually goes to for leisure activities are internet cafes, and movies, which are all located in Richmond and took around 30 min of busing. Otherwise he would just stay home and watch TV.
The note book I told him to bring it to school and I haven’t got it back yet, I’ll take picture of it and post it up if he returned it to me soon.

Findings

My participant is a friend of friend of mine, Johnny Meng grade 11. I’ve seen him a few times before, so there wasn’t too much trouble while opening up the conversation. I asked him to do the probe for me but some of the probes weren’t printed out so I just asked him to tell me what he would do if he actually got the object. He described himself as 60 kg and 167cm tall, which seems to be honest. The self portrait he did was rather masculine which might indicate how he wants himself to look like.
The magazine I gave him included Times, People Magazine, Ultimate Racing, and Gaming world. He did not seem to have too much interest in commenting on the magazine because it was too much work to go through all the magazines and write down the comments. However, he did show some interest in the gaming magazine and start to talk to me about some of the games that he’s been playing lately.
As for the map, the places that he goes for food are a few bubble tea place located near his high school. Most of which are just one to two blocks away from his high school. Other places like McDonalds and Subways are also his choice of food. All of the places are near his school area. However he only goes to these places about once every two weeks. Other time he eats at home or brings food from home to school. The places he usually goes to for leisure activities are internet cafes, and movies, which are all located in Richmond and took around 30 min of busing. Otherwise he would just stay home and watch TV.
The note book I told him to bring it to school and I haven’t got it back yet, I’ll take picture of it and post it up if he returned it to me soon.

Results from Shawn Dhaliwal

Shawn is in grade 10

Here is what he did with the scale. So he believes he's almost 150lb but he didnt draw too many muscles so that shows some modesty.


Here is what he did with the magazine that he chose as his favourite from a pile of sports illustrateds.

He says he wishes to be 6'11" which is very tall. This could be because he grew up as a baby of the house and wishes to go from being the smallest one to the tallest. He also says that it's cool how all these players are being compared and the variety is being shown. That shows some appreciation.

This tells us that the big football game is an exciting thing to him.

He's being observant here by noticing the direction of all of the audience and players' eyes

here he shows a little knowledge which he uses to make an opinion while comparing two players. then he shows some self confidence (perhaps OVER self confidence) by comparing himself to them for the future.
Here he shows an interest in cars


Here he shows that he is amazed by the ability of people to predict outcomes involving sports teams.

For the map, there were a few food places near his high school that he spotted such as tim hortons, subway and taco del mar which are all about 3 blocks from the school. Near home he spotted mcdonalds which is about 5 blocks away. He is willing to go here by foot about once a week.

For activities/other places he visits, he spotted the UPS Store which is 8 blocks from his school and he walks to after school occasionally. Near home spotted a friend's house or aunts house where he bikes to and are both about 15 blocks away

Here is last week's stuff

here's the link to the my ftp with all the files in it.

http://www.sfu.ca/~jasonn/test/

Dead laptop

First post

Here we post links to files, updates, news ok?