Children's Day

It is Chinese Children's Day today. When I was a kid, we used to hold our own show in school. We sang, we danced, we laughed, we enjoyed our festival. But today... I wish all the children who had gone rest in peace, and the survivors have a pretty future. A sad children's Day.

Reading: The Acute Aftermath of an Earthquake in El Salvador

Lynn E. DeLisi. 2003. The Acute Aftermath of an Earthquake in El Salvador:Disaster Psychiatry: 133-143

notes


vocabularies
schizophrenia
trauma

frame style

Using green to create a relaxed environment. The sprouts represent the kids, and the hopes.

wireframe for the thesis site

Reading: From Questions to Problems

A research problem defined by what it is that you do not know or understand, but feel you must.

my practical problem -- tons of children witness the disaster and lost their familiy in the huge earthquake which happened in Sichuan recently. Their mental health were affacted to a certain degree.

my research question: How can I help them by building up something using?

my research problem: How media helps the recovery process of post-traumatic stress disorder.
It is an applied research problem because I want to make it helpful to the kids.

The solution will be a designed product that can help the recovery process.

Reading: From Topics to Questions

A topic is an interest specific enough to support research that one might plausibly report on in a book or article that helps others to advance their thinking and understanding.

narrow the topic by adding modifying words and phrases. (conflict, desription, contribution and development)

the starting point of good research is always what you do not know or understand but feel you must.

I am studing _____________, because I want to find out who/how/why __________ in order to understand how/why what____________.


I am studing post-traumatic stress disorder, because I want to find out how media can help with the PTSD cure process in order to help children who survived the Sichuan earthquake.