Yesterday 5/30 Tomorrow 6/1

Yesterday we went to the Carnegie Library in Oakland, I had checked out two books, however I did check out two other books to help me on my graduation project for school. All books are on the history of hockey.

Tomorrow, we discussed that I will not be at school due to the death in the family, so let me know what we are doing so I can make the work up

- Kor

Last week

So last week was presentation week of every one's project
I learned alot from alot of peoples thoughts and ideas in which will help me with my own project

Today 5/29 we researched books we wanted to do research on that would help us on our projects.

I have three sources so far, how ever I will add them in tomorrow or the following day.

- Kory

What I've done 5/22

So today I completed and uploaded my essential question and my Ten Foundation Questions and now i'm just gathering more ideas for my project and how I am going about in doing it.

Here are the questions:

Essential Question: How can I increase the diversity of young people who play hockey?


Ten Foundation Questions:

1. What is diversity?
2. How many kids in America take part in diversity programs in hockey?
3. Who started diversity programs?
4. Have diversity programs helped keep kids off of streets?
5. Do kids learn from diversity programs?
6. What’s the primary goal of hockey diversity programs?
7. What has the NHL done for diversity programs?
8. How do African – Americans and other minorities feel about playing in the NHL?
9. What are the benefits in playing hockey?
10. Are there any companies that have supported hockey diversity programs?
11. What have companies like PowerAde and CCM contributed to hockey diversity programs?
12. How has Garth Brooks helped out hockey diversity programs?
13. What is the history of African – Americans, black Canadians, and Europeans in the NHL?

Today's blog 5/21

So today I created my essential question which was "How can I increase the diversity of young people who play hockey?" and I am also creating my ten foundation questions

Everything is running according to plan

- Kor

Class Work 5/15 - 5/18

For the past three days I have been working on my webliography, so far I completed it, and it did take me a while because some of the websites I intended on using at first were not going to work for my project at this time, but I found more to help me out.

My webliogrpahy ended up being about 7 pages long double spaced and I talked alot about the web sites and how they will help me with my graduation project.

I'm sorry for not updating on yesterdays blog but since I summed up three days of completing a webliography, well heres the blog.

- Kor

5/14/07

For today I continued on working with my MLA citations and annotations, better yet called a webliography. I have progressed to my fourth annotation right now and everything seems to be comming along so far.

- Kor

What was completed 5/11/07

Today was intro to annotations.

For my assisgnment today, I completed my first annotation and I thought that I wrote it up very well.

Other than that I had good news that I am now accepeted to do my project on Hockey Diversity and I have a lot of good ideas to put together for this project.

- Kory

MLA Citations

Here is my revised MLA citation post from yesterday's work

1. Morrison, Michael. "Icing the Stereotypes." Info Please. 2007. Pearson Education. 11 May 2007 . http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html

2. Bettit, Paul. "NHL diversity program helps Pirates goalie stick it to doubters." Main Today. March 18, 2007. Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.. 11 May 2007 . http://sports.mainetoday.com/pirates/stories/070318coleman.html

3. Horrocks, Kim. "The Lost League: A Black Mark On Hockey History." Black Athelete. April 3rd, 2007. BlackAthlete Sports Network,LLC. 11 May 2007 . http://www.blackathlete.net/artman/publish/article_03128.shtml

enjoy

- Kor

What I accomplished 5/9/07

During yesterday's class I basically searched for websites to research my graduation project.
So far I am up to 8 websites and I will now find my last two and then complete an MLA citation for three of them.

- Kor

Graduation Project meets Photo Shop

The picture that i made in photo shop to the left is NHL Diversity and each picture represents diversity and equal oppertunity.

There are three NHL players in my picture and they are; Georges Laraque from Pittsburgh, Anson Carter from Vancouver and Kevin Weekes from New York.

Following that; there are two Hockey in the Hood pictures one with just the kids and one with Coach Howard; his wife and three kids on the team.

That is what i did today in Graduation class

- Kor

Yesterday's work from 5/7/07

Yesterday during class we had Mr. Nelson come in and talk to us about using his equiptment for about 15 minutes then following that, we worked on the grad project meets photo shop, my pictures comming together pretty well, i have some very good pictures to go with it so i will post it as soon as i'm done

- kory

Letter of intent

5/4/2007

Today I just finished up my letter of intent, I think it's constructed with very bright ideas about my project and I am satisfied with what I want to do for my project.

Also I am now doing a photo shop picture of my project, it will consist of Hockey in the Hood, the NHL and Diversity.

- Kor

Yesterday's work from 5/3/07

So basically as you saw in my previous post about what i want to do for my project is how diversity impacts our youth and to support my project I am going to use is Hockey in the Hood and the reason why i used that is because that is our main focus at Hockey in the Hood and the NHL supports that along with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

As you read in my detailed entry from yesterday, you will find very interesting ideas that sparked me for what i am going to do for my graduation project.

Lastly I picked about 4-5 different websites to use as a beggining resource for my project, along with that i wrote a letter of intent to Mrs Fossum for what i am going to do for my project.

- Kor

Three Websites

The three web sites I decided to pick are:
1. http://www.hockeyinthehood.com/
2. http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/community/diversity.html
3. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html
4. http://www.georgeslaraque.com/#

Yesterday's work

So yesterday May 2nd, 2007; we had two guest speakers come in from 12th grade. Mimi and Alicia came in and talked to us about their expierences from the graduation projects and what all occurred during the projects.

What I learned was that you shouldnt procrastinate, you need to make use of your time wisely. One of the things i jotted down as an idea for my own porject was to interview my coach, bring evidence to support my project i.e. trophies; awards; accomplisments, and finally to dress professionally.

These are just a few ideas on what I am going to do for my project but one of my main things I will do is to do an "on ice" inter view with my coach and other coaches i had from hockey in the hood.

This should work out perfectly and smoothly because of a few things:
1. The ice time is free, every tuesday and saturday for "Hockey in the Hood" and this is great because usually it costs money to be on the ice for an hour.

2. My coach; Howard Smith has connections with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Hockey night in Canada, and other operations in connection to hockey in the hood.

3. I have alot of resources; Marcus Day in 12th grade also participates in "Hockey in the Hood."

4. If things work out as planned and I am to present third trimester like scheduled next year, I can possibly bring some kids in for my project and show how it's taught them to be mature; better people.

5. Finally a key thing is the Detroit Tournament in February, what that means is that we travel up to Detroit to play in a tournament from training since October.

This project should turn out bitter sweet and I can't wait to get a jump on it

- Kor

First Day of May

So yesterday we didn't have really any class because of the PSSA Science and ACT registration that took almost all morning. How ever we did have about 20 minutes to hear from a group of students about what they did for their graduation projects and how they over came challenges.

This benefitted me because I learned about many new things such as time management, writting a ten page paper on just your topic and not your project. Also it was a good opening idea on how in depth these projects can get and how you should present your projects.

- Kor