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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Idea
Goal 1
Areas of Interaction 1
Outline- Clear plan 2
Process 2
Investigate- Research
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Investigate- Exploring Area Interaction 3
Investigate- Finding Software
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Planning- How I reach my goal
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Planning- Scheduling 4
Planning- What kind of product 5
Conclusion
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Did I achieve my goal?
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Reflecting on Process 7
Evaluation on product
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What I learned 9
Possible Improvements
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Applying the Areas of Interaction 10
Bibliography 11
Published sources
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Online sources 14
Software 14
Appendices
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Word Search
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Survey
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Evaluation survey 18
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Introduction
Ideas
To do the personal project successfully, I first need to find a topic which I was
interesting in. I want to focus my topic on something that has global
awareness in the world in nowadays. My goal is to raise awareness of drug
abuse to Hong Kong teenagers by creating a brochure. I chose this goal
because when I was looking at the news and reading the newspaper, I
realized that, teenage drug abuse was a serious problem in Hong Kong.
Much of the news were now talking about the consequences of taking drugs,
but in Hong Kong, this situation doesn’t seem to be improving even though
the government frequently creates advertisements, posters and commercials
to appeal teenage not to take drugs. That would be the reason why I chose
this topic.
Goal
Area of Interaction
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To achieve my goal, I have to research the topics that are about teenage
drug abuse and the technique to raise awareness among teenagers. I will
have to research more on drugs and will research about the major concerns
on teenage drug abuse in Hong Kong, the basic information of drugs and the
consequences of drug abusing. I will also have to investigate about the
attitudes and values about teenagers, so that I can create a brochure that
will attract their attention in order for me to raise awareness among them.
The last part that I will have to investigate about was the techniques on how
to create a professional looking brochure, so that I will be able to create a
successful brochure.
Process
Investigate- Research
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my researches. I went to the library to find books about drugs and books
which include any different kind of drug information. After that, I went to the
Narcotic Division in Hong Kong to get some brochures about drugs. In the
same day, I found out that there was an info centre that was donated by the
Hong Kong Jockey Club. I went there and took pictures of the setting of that
info centre and get more information. There were also a lot of case studies
that provided us to learn, there were real cases of recovered drug abuser
that present in their own feeling and presenting the moment in time when
they first got in touch with drugs.
In the early stage of my project, I was still unsure which Area of Interaction I
should focus on. My two choices were Community and Service or Health and
Social Education. I wanted to choose an Area of Interactions that can fully fit
and is connected to my personal project topic and goal, so I decided to
choose Health and Social Education as my chosen Areas of Interaction.
Health and Social Education is related to humans’ physical, social and mental
well-being, to help us make good choices about keeping yourself healthy and
happy. By creating a brochure to raise awareness, it means that in my
personal project, I am going to find ways to interact with teenagers’ mental
development or growth.
I needed a software program that could create brochures easily and could
easily create a printable version. I found a few brochure makers online and
tried the brochure template in Microsoft word 2007. I tried to use both of the
software to create the basic outline of my brochure. After my observations, I
thought that the templates in Microsoft word 2007 would be better for me to
use to finish my final product. It was because the Microsoft word templates
included all margins for a printable version, so it is easier for me since I did
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not need to spend time on trying and resetting the margins. Although the
designs and functions in the brochure maker were better, but using Microsoft
2007 is already good enough for me to finish my product.
Planning- Scheduling
In this stage, we have to plan for our create stage in order give ourselves a
better time management of the process of creating the whole personal
project product. In this stage, I would have to create a timeline and write
down the method of doing the project, so that it is easier for me to follow and
keep myself on time. The planning stage was quite successful of my
product. I tried to follow all my steps and due date according to the timeline
I’ve created. Although I may miss my own due date sometimes, but I will try
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to keep up and finish both missed and current tasks before the next due date
that I set for myself, so that my create stage wouldn’t be overdue or delayed
for a very long time. On the other hand, my planning stage was not too
success because while I was planning, I didn’t bothered about my own time.
While creating my timeline for the personal project, I didn’t think about the
time that I have to spend in my normal school work and after school
activities. In this way, I actually predicted that I have more time than I
actually did.
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The best way for me to create my product is to use an online brochure maker
but the most efficient way is to use Microsoft Word 2007. Using the brochure
templates in Microsoft Word 2007 can save me time from measuring the unit
of a right margin of a brochure since there were a lot of brochure templates
on the Microsoft website and we could choose from the one we like for our
project. On the other hand for an online brochure maker, most of it online
was just a trial version and you would need to pay for more features and
even for a brochure template, although brochure maker included more
template designs, but I would not like to pay, so I chose to use Microsoft
Word to create my product instead of using brochure maker.
Other than software, I still had a few points of concern when I was creating
my brochure. In the research stage of my personal project, I had researched
about the habits and the things teenagers like. I found out that, most
teenagers would like interest things, such as, to include a little game or
comic into the brochure. As there were no reasonable space to create a
comic in my brochure, so I thought that to include a little crossword or word
search in my brochure would be useful to attract more teenagers’ attention.
Create- brochure
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The method of creating a brochure was quite simple. First I chose the
suitable template in the online website of Microsoft word 2007. First, I would
have to download it from the website into my computer. Then, I typed all
different slogan and information that I want it to be appeared in my brochure
in the given text boxes and columns. Then I would add pictures in a specific
given picture box in the template that was for you to add picture in it. Then
the draft of my brochure is simply already finished. At last, I would just have
to add colours and reset the some of the layout, so that it will look better. I
have to hand out surveys and evaluate my final product from the
suggestions given to the interviewers and made improvements and create a
better product.
The method of creating a word search was quite simple too. I found a
website program that could create Word Searches. All I had to do is to enter
the words that I picked; the program would create the word search for me.
First, I tried to copy the word search in Microsoft word, after that I found out
that it was hard to adjust the size of it. At last, I think of another method, I
pressed the print screen button on my computer and paste the picture in a
Microsoft word, in this way; I would be able to crop and adjust the size of my
word search easily, so that it could fit in the empty box in my brochure.
After that, the word search would be completed and will be able play in a
clear way in my brochure (see appendix A).
Conclusion
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tips to prevent drug abuse and also a teen survey asking teenagers where
and why are they obtaining drugs. This information may help me understand
why do many teenagers take drugs and gave me many ideas on how to
prevent and persuade them from becoming involving in drugs.
The creation of my product was quite successful. I was able to finish and get
my product done on time. During the create stage, I found out that, to use
the software, “My Brochure Maker” is too hard for me and was not
reasonable to download it online. Therefore I decided to use Microsoft word
at last. While using Microsoft, I applied the templates for making a brochure
in the word document, so that I will not have to waste time on measuring the
margins and lines of the brochure for a printable version.
Evaluation on product
What I learned
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progress, I found that my process was always off date, because I didn’t push
myself to get most of the research and plan done before hand, so I always
fall off schedule. I also learned about different life aspects. As Health and
Social was my chosen Areas of Interaction, I learned about how to socialize
and interact with people with different perspectives.
Possible Improvements
If I could redo this project, I think the main thing I would improve will be to
keep on schedule. Since this was a long term project, I always thought that I
still have a lot of time to get things done, but when the project is about due, I
still found myself way behind and fall off schedule. I would improve my
planning stage in my personal project so that I could get even more organize
during the whole working process of my personal project. Also, in the design
of my product, I could add more pictures and include more slogan to replace
long wordings, I am sure that this could make me have improvements in
achieving my goal.
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happy. Basing on the guiding question and the goal of my personal project,
this AOI fits my project most. As drug abusing is a matter related to health,
and once I am raising awareness of it, it’s a matter of being social. That is
why I think that my AOI choice was appropriate.
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Bibliography
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Published source
Brochures
不可一. 不可再. Hong Kong: Action Commitee Against Narcotics, 2009. Print.
Chapter of Books
Bellenir, Karen. "Chapter 3- Oops: How Casual Drug Use Leads To Addiction."
Drug Information for Teens. United States: Omnigraphics, 2002. 17-23.
Print.
Bellenir, Karen. "Chapter 48- Teen Survey." Drug Information for Teens.
United States: Omnigraphics, 2002. 359-362. Print.
Hicks, John. "Signs that someone you know may be abusing alcohal or
drugs." Drug Addiction "No way I am addict" United States, 1997. 82-
82. Print.
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Books
Adkins, Val. Creating Brochures and Booklets. 1st ed. Mexico: North Light
Books, 1994. Print.
Bellenir, Karen. Drug Information for Teens. 1st ed. United States:
Omnigraphics, 2002. Print.
Iversen, Leslie. Drugs- A very short introduction. New York: Oxford, 2001.
Print.
Foster, Olive M. Designer Drugs. New York: Chelsea House, 2004. Print.
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"Signs that someone you know may be abusing alcohol or drugs." Print.
Online source
Websites
Softwares
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Appendices
Appendix A
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Consequences of drugs
P I N R L R T E D I R G I U T E I T N N A A Y T H
P N T S A E A E E R I T U L C I A T I R R D R I I
G G N E H E A A D U U U T E R R N I H A R G E T
L I U P N P I S Y L B G R B I I Y X L A H R I I
T N R I N P E R H R U L S A T H G E N A R I E I
I A A P G R R A A R E G P N G R A T A A R N R Y R
T G L L E S S S S G R E R S A Y N A N E L E R A N
L N S N E O G P Y E A P E H N S L X A I R E I R U
E R R L N U S P I X R A T T I L I I E S S R I E C
I R H S G T E X E C G E E T P E I B U T S I R Y C
R Y A G I N E Y C L I U S T R R G L S D Y R R P
D A G C R A A I L A I I R Y N L E E I S R E Y A E
E I L S G T I T N E S S E P I A N B I G A H I I
H E R S N E H T S R T R R N T E R T P L I O A G I
A R D R A A I A T U I U T N S S C L E S N R I R A
Y T G U I S N L R R C E A S P I T N E A S E G E G
R C E C S T L L C S B U T S D I Y Y R E I L O A A
L P T E A N A N H I I S N X T T T A A P Y R T I T
R A I H S B E B E B N P R T I E P I N I B S T S N
N P S I P I I S I T C A L H A R T I A T S E R X R
I A I Y L G N A N L N N P S L E A R T E R N S S R
N E I A S I B I G Y I R T L X D I A N S A I T N I
S A A P H N A Y N I E T L T E S R L P R A N G H I
I P N X D A Y C Y I N N Y X A P A E T A N A R A R
L S I T P R N I T R T E E B E P N R C I R L Y S X
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Appendix B
Survey on teens
I am Daphne Cheng from S4Peace studying in Victoria Shanghai Academy. I am
doing a project on teenage drug abuse. My goal of the project is to design and
create a brochure to raise awareness of teenage drug abuse in Hong Kong
nowadays. I would like to know more about how do teenage think about my
brochure in order to help me improve my product. There are a few questions I want
you to answer to complete my survey. Thanks
Name:______________
Age group: 6-12/ 13-18/ 19-29/ 30-39/ 40-49/ 50 or above
Yes
No
Reason:______________________________________________________________________
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Yes
No
Reason:______________________________________________________________________
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3. Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
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Reason:______________________________________________________________________
_
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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Appendix C
Survey feedbacks
Yes
No
Reason: I think that as your product is quite beautiful and colourful, it will
attack teens to read it immediately.
Yes
No
Reason: I think when teens read your product; they will reflect and think
more about it.
7. Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
Reason: I think your word choice can attack the teens a lot and teens will
want to read at it.
I think your product is quite good already, maybe adding some more picture
on that second page will be better.
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Yes
No
10.Do you think that my product is persuasive enough to raise awareness mostly
among teens on drug abuse?
Yes
No
11.Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
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13.Do you think that my product is attractive enough to get teenager’s attention
to read?
Yes
No
14.Do you think that my product is persuasive enough to raise awareness mostly
among teens on drug abuse?
Yes
No
15.Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
Reason: Appropriate
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17.Do you think that my product is attractive enough to get teenager’s attention
to read?
Yes
No
Reason: It is so colourful!
18.Do you think that my product is persuasive enough to raise awareness mostly
among teens on drug abuse?
Yes
No
19.Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
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21.Do you think that my product is attractive enough to get teenager’s attention
to read?
Yes
No
Reason: Because you’ve shown the information and it’s colourful enough to
attract teens in reading it.
22.Do you think that my product is persuasive enough to raise awareness mostly
among teens on drug abuse?
Yes
No
23.Do you think that the word choices I use to create my product are suitable for
teenagers?
Yes
No
Reason:______________________________________________________________________
_
Maybe you can show more photos, so that that booklet won’t be too boring.
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