Flower power
Group members
1) Darja Kavaš
2) Vesna Novak
3) Tina Pestotnik
4) Katja Polanec
5) Zoja Prašnikar
Distribution of roles
1) Chair: Katja
2) Secretary: Vesna
3) Progress chaser: Zoja
4) Timekeeper: Tina
5) Reserve person: Darja
Discussion of issues
Issue 1: PBL problem
Decision 1: Environmental organisations: Greenpeace (climate change)
Redefining our PBL problem:
"In the context of environmental policy, the term "climate change" often refers to the changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as warming" (Wikipedia, online). "Higher temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, lost ecosystems" (NRDC, online). And global warming's effects have already begun. Today, our world is hotter than it has been in two thousand years and by the end of the century, if current trends continue, the global temperature will likely climb higher than at any time in the past two million years. But solutions are in sight. Most heat-trapping gases come from power plants and vehicles. We know how to curb emissions from power plants and vehicles, which produce most heat-trapping gases and still provide enough energy for all- the solution lies in the use of modern technologies and stronger laws (NRDC, online. Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, which deals with most crucial worldwide environmental threats (see Greenpeace International, online). One of their prior concerns is the climate change and its consequences. In our research work we are going to focus on their effectiveness concerning this topic.
Literature:
- Greenpeace International 'About Greenpeace',
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about (accessed 9 November 2006).
- Natural resources defence council 'Global Warming',
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/?gclid=CJb-5Orfw4gCFRIlXgodC3pkCg
(accessed 9 November 2006).
- Wikipedia 'Climate Change',
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change (accessed 9 November 2006).
Decision 2: Climate change through the view of Greenpeace and Slovenian public
Climate change through the view of Greenpeace and Slovenian public
Acid rain, drought, disease, floods, lost ecosystems etc. these are dangerous consequences of global warming. What is going on with our planet? We decided to research climate changes, what they look like and what causes them, what kind of effects they have on the society, environment and people. Our work will be also focused on the work of non-profit organisation – Greenpeace. We will try to find out efficiency of Greenpeace at solving environmental problems, in what way Greenpeace is informing people about environmental problems (particularly about climate change), are their actions, demonstrations good or bad and so on. We are also interested in how well is society informed about climate change in general, do people know Greenpeace and their actions, are they aware of environmental problems and what do they do to make the planet better, cleaner and safer.
Research questions:
1. What are the causes and effects of climate change?
2. How does climate change impact our society and environment?
3. What can we do to improve this situation?
4. How does Greenpeace increase awareness of this issue?
5. How does Greenpeace contribute to improvement of the issue of climate change?
6. How successful are their actions?
7. How do people perceive this issue?
8. How well are people informed about this problem?
9. Are people aware of its serious consequences? Are they ready to take action?
10. How high is Slovene public awareness of this issue and how familiar are we with the Greenpeace organisation?
Sources:
∙ Heller, Peter S. :Who will pay?: coping with aging societies, climate change, and other long term fiscal challenges
∙ Layzer, Judith A.: The environmental case : translating values into policy
∙ Worldwatch Institute: State of the world, 1997 : Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society
∙ Burroughs, William James: Does the weather really matter? : The social implications of the climate change
∙ O'Riordan, Timothy: Politics of climate change : European Perspective
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/home_en.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn9903
http://www.climatehotmap.org/
www.zrc-sazu.si/Zgds/glasgow/9.pdf
Task distribution:
Darja will research questions 1 and 2.
Zoja and Vesna will research questions 3-6.
Katja and Tina will research questions 7-10.
Minutes of the 1st group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 9 November, 2006 at FDV
Present: Vesna, Tina, Zoja, Darja
Absent: Katja (she cooperated with us through email)
Agenda:
1. Redefining our PBL problem
2. Research questions
3. Name of the group
4. Any other business
Item 1:
Discussion: We talked and decided how to redefine our PBL problem.
Decision: We will write it on the wiki until Friday.
Item 2:
Assignments: Eeveryone should try to think about our research questions until next meeting.
Item 3:
Katja suggested our group should be called ‘flower power’. We all agreed.
Decision: The name of our group will be Flower power.
Item 4:
Decision: We will collect all our literature until Monday.
The next meeting will be next week at FDV.
Minutes taker: Vesna Novak
Chair: Katja Polanec
Minutes of the 2nd group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 16 November, 2006 at FDV
Present: Vesna, Tina, Zoja, Darja, Katja
Agenda:
1. Checking literature
2. Research questions
3. Any other business
Item 1:
Discussion: Each of us presented one piece of literature about our topic. We found out we are going to need extra literature to answer some of research questions.
Item 2:
Discussion: We presented our research questions and decided which of them will be included in our research project.
Item 3:
Because we had some complications with our research concept we decided to meet with prof. Kos.
The next meeting will be next week at FDV.
Minutes taker: Vesna Novak
Chair: Katja Polanec
Minutes of the 3rd group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 22 November, 2006 at FDV
Present: Vesna, Tina, Zoja, Darja, Katja
Agenda:
1. Distribution of tasks
2. Any other business
Item 1:
Discussion: We discussed about our research questions and decided which of us will research which questions.
Assignments: Tina and Katja will look at SJM to see if there are enough questions about our topic.
Item 2:
We agreed that we will help each other if any problems occur.
The next meeting will be next week at FDV.
Minutes taker: Vesna Novak
Chair: Katja Polanec
Minutes of the 4th group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 5 December, 2006 at FDV
Present: Vesna, Tina, Zoja, Darja, Katja
Agenda:
1. Action-item follow up
2. Timetable
Item 1:
Our progress is going well. All assignments from the previous meeting have been carried out.
Item 2:
Decision: Each of us will write our own part of PBL report until Sunday.
The next meeting will be two weeks before our presentation at FDV.
Minutes taker: Vesna Novak
Chair: Katja Polanec
Comments (2)
Vida Zorko said
at 3:54 pm on Nov 10, 2006
You defined the problem well. But in your definition you use a citation from a source which you don't acknowledge. This is plagiarism and is sanctioned severely at our faculty. Please make it clear in your text that you are using somebody else'e words and provide the source!!!
Vida Zorko said
at 10:57 pm on Nov 12, 2006
I can see you added the source :-) You will be able to improve the referencing further during the following weeks when we learn how to acknowledge sources.
So far you have completed all the assignments. Well done.
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