Group members
Distribution of roles
1) Chair: Maja Rimahazi
2) Secretary: Tina Baša
3) Progress chaser: Matej Ficko
4) Timekeeper: Luka Lukič
5) Reserve person: Neža Vodeb
Discussion of issues
Issue 1: PBL Problem
We have had a discussion about PBL Problem on our group meeting and ended up with the following decision:
Decision 1: Among profession, media reporting and public opinion about enivronmental problems Case of study: Hydroelectric power stations on Mura River
Issue 2: Refined problem
Our first title of our PBL problem, was good framework for the start. We have realised that the title itself doesn't point out the problem. Therefore, we needed to refine our problem and throughout we ultimately decided to change our title to:
Decision 2: Building hydroelectric power stations on Mura River - is it possible to meet a consensus among profession, media reporting and public opinion
In our research Building hydroelectric power stations on Mura River - is it possible to meet a consensus among profession, media reporting and public opinion we will try to eleminate the clasical black and white view on ecological issues and try to find out on which point profession, media and public opinion can meet. On one side we have various for argument for building hydroelectric power stations and on the other side various reasons against it. Judging if building power stations is the optimal decision or not will not be our goal. Because we want to discover if, which and how connections are established between profession, media and public opinion when we are talking about ecological issue. To gather required data we will use methods as interviews, media analyzes and opinion polls.
Useful links
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=329
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=398
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=407
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=417
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=434
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=473
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=804
http://www.sobotainfo.com/index.php?mode=article&aid=1168
10 questions on which we will be answering in our research:
1. What is expert’s opinion about building hydroelectric power stations on Mura River?
2. What is public opinion about building hydroelectric power stations?
3. How is media presenting this problem?
4. By expert’s opinion – how building hydroelectric power stations is influencing on environment?
5. By public opinion – how building hydroelectric power stations is influencing on environment?
6. How media see the problem of building hydroelectric power stations in connection with environment?
7. By expert’s opinion – what is the best solution of this problem?
8. By public opinion - what is the best solution of this problem?
9. How media is presenting solutions of the problem?
10. What do theorists think about environmental problems in media?
Distribution of tasks:
Maja will be trying to find the answers to the questions 1, 4 and 7.
Tina and Neža will research questions 3, 6 and 9.
Luka will research question 10 and Matej questions 2, 5 and 8.
Literature:
W. Lippmann: Javno mnenje; 1999; FDV; Ljubljana
F. Toennies: Kritika javnega mnenja; 1998; FDV; Ljubljana
A. Anderson: Media, culture and the enviroment; 1997; UCL 1997; London
S. Lash, B. Szerszynski; B. Wynne: Risk, enviroment & modernity; 1996; SAGE; London
articles from www.dnevnik.si (Morebitne HE na Muri vznemirjajo naravovarstvenike,20.03.2006; Hrvaški veto na gradnjo hidroelektrarn na Muri?,28.3.2006; Hrvaška vlada: Slovenija nas kljub obvezam ni obvestila o elektrarni na Muri,11.4.2006; Slovenija o nameri na Muri obvestila vse tri sosede,13.4.2006; Vizjak: O gradnji elektrarn na Muri je še prezgodaj govoriti,14.4.2006)
Sebastijan Kopušar: Vizjak: Elektrarne na Muri le ena od rešitev (Dnevnik, 15.4.2006,p.5)
+many many more (stay tuned)
Minutes of the 1st meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 8 November, 2006 at Net caffe
Present: Tina Baša, Matej Ficko, Maja Rimahazi, Luka Lukič, Neža Vodeb
Agenda:
1. Discussion about changing the title of our problem
2. Action about refining problem
3. Distribution of tasks
Item 1:
We came to agreement that we change our pbl title in to “Building hydroelectric power stations on Mura River - is it possible to meet a consensus among profession, media reporting and public opinion”
Item 2:
We discussed our pbl problem and we decided that we must contact our pbl teacher prof. Kos again for some further information about our problem.
Item 3:
Our distribution of tasks is based on our previous knowledge, which we will use in this pbl problem.
Assignments:
Matej will find out what is public opinion about hydroelectric power stations on Mura River. This will not be a problem for him, because he lives in Prekmurje.
Luka will write a theoretical part in our research project.
Maja is an inquisitive person, so she will contact experts and ask them about their opinion regarding our problem.
Neža and Tina will be trying to present how media is presenting this problem.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 15 November, 2006 at 12 AM at FDV library.
Minutes taker: Tina Baša, Neža Vodeb
Chair: Maja Rimahazi
Minutes of the 2nd group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
Held on 15 November, 2006 at Amerika cafe
Present: Tina Baša, Matej Ficko, Luka Lukič, Maja Rimahazi, Neža Vodeb
Agenda:
1. Action-item follow up
2. Discussion about 10 research questions
3. Any other business
Item 1:
Our tasks stayed the same.
We had to write another concept for our subject teacher because some complications have appeared.
Item 2:
We discussed about 10 questions and we all agreed with Luka, that most of our questions should be made by the same pattern. This will enable us to make a better comparative analysis.
Item 3:
Luka reported, that he has found some more literature and will publish it in our PBL document.
The next meeting will be held on 29 November, 2006 at 12 AM. We don’t know where yet.
Minutes taker: Tina Baša, Neža Vodeb
Chair: Maja Rimahazi
Minutes of the 3rd group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
Held on 6 December, 2006 at FDV Library
Present: Tina Baša, Matej Ficko, Luka Lukič, Maja Rimahazi, Neža Vodeb
Agenda:
1. Action-item follow up
Item 1:
On our group meeting Matej reported, that his survey already included over 170 people and 80 more people will be asked for their opinion. Matej said it is very interesting that many people didn’t won’t to cooperate.
Tina and Neža reported they went to newspaper house Delo, where they found articles for their analysis. They also said most of the analysis of articles is almost finished. Now they need to interpret it.
Maja and Luka reported that they gain all the literature which they did not had before. Maja is organising her work and she is collecting even more data. Luka will soon be finished with his part of the research.
The next meeting will be held on 11 December, 2006 at 9 AM at FDV Library.
Minutes taker: Tina Baša, Neža Vodeb
Chair: Maja Rimahazi
Minutes of the 4th group meeting
Minutes of the meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
Held on 11 December, 2006 at FDV Library
Present: Tina Baša, Matej Ficko, Luka Lukič, Maja Rimahazi, Neža Vodeb
Agenda:
1. Action-item follow up
2. Structure of research
Item 1:
On our last meeting we presented to each other what we have written, altogether we wrote introduction, we discussed about conclusion and our main findings.
Item 2:
We also discussed what parts of our research will be used for English class because we will give shorter version to our English teacher, and longer version to professor Kos.
Minutes taker: Tina Baša, Neža Vodeb
Chair: Maja Rimahazi
Comments (1)
Anonymous said
at 11:55 pm on Nov 20, 2006
The minutes of the meeting are posted but I don't see the PBL document containing the required elements.
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