THE DRO (n.d.) Madagascar Hissing Cockroach (Male & Female). [Photo]. Retrieved from: http://the-dro.com/product/madagascar-hissing-cockroach-pair/ This week we have mainly focusing on finishing our first draft of our literature review. We had came close to the deadline due to our struggle to find our fifth document. The weekend before we had all five our primary resources, but when reviewing the final one we had came to the conclusion that it would strong source to use as one of our primary sources but better as a secondary source. After losing a day to finding a new source we had fallen slightly behind schedule with three days left and a conclusion, introduction, the transitions, and writing for source five left to be done in our literature review. While I was writing for the fifth source, Connor had been working on the conclusion. After those were completed I had started working on the transitions and while Connor had started the introduction. We had finished with only seven hours left.
Besides that we really haven’t did much in the classroom but work on the lit review. In between writing the literature review, I had been working on the website and looking into how much our specimen and materials needed. Even before working on our methodology Connor and I had already narrowed down and picked out the most cost effective and highest chance to succeed with the different species not fighting or killing each other. This is due to us already having access hissing cockroaches and one green tree frog. They also have similar temperature and humid conditions, that wouldn’t make the enclosure inaccessible. Also they have all different foods needed, this might make it slightly more expensive to buy different types of food but this helps ensures that no species would fight over food. Besides that group I would like to look into a group that would include a blue-tongued skink. Tags:#Information Literacy#Collaboration#Communication
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Drafting season has begun. Our first draft of our lit review is due next Thursday so Charlie and I have been writing a lot. We hope we can get everything finished by Sunday since Tuesday is our SAT and Friday is Junior Ring dance. So next week we won’t have time to do much in terms of writing. At the beginning of the week Charlie and I picked out 4 of 10 groups to narrow it down to to choose to put in the enclosure. We later had a conversation with Ms. V about the groups and came to a conclusion. The first group was a giant millipede, giant land snail, and house geckos. I personally had high hopes that we would get this group just because I love millipedes and the land snails are adorable; they also had a arboreal terrestrial, and a burrower which wouldn’t compete for space. We were strongly leaning towards this group before talking to Ms. V. She pointed out to us that the enclosure we were going to use was large and had poor ventilation, and with the humidity needs for these creatures, there was too high a risk of mold growing in our terrarium. The second group we had was house geckos, hissing cockroaches, and giant millipedes. We didn’t think they would do very well as the temperatures were a bit different, and there was too high humidity again. The third group was blue tongued skinks and sugar gliders. This was the only group of two in our top four, and it was the only pairing that included a mammal. As much as this grouping sounded amazing, we were afraid of the reptile spreading salmonella to the sugar glider. The final group is the one we will most likely be using. It is one of hissing cockroaches, crested geckos, and green tree frogs. We were not able to find any negative notes for this grouping. I won’t bore you with the details of writing the lit review for the rest of the week. The only important thing to add is that we’re doing it and have a good top 5 sources. Tags: #collaboration #problem solving #creativity and innovation #information literacy Mold Vivarium (n.d.) Mold Vivarium. [Photo]. Retrieved from: https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/mold.html During this April break Connor and I had beginning of annotating and choosing out the group of animals for our enclosure. The green anole, sudan plated lizard, blue tongue skink, day gecko, pac-man frog, green tree frog, crested gecko, rough green snakes, tiger salamander, house gecko, giant millipede, sugar glider, halloween crab, hissing cockroach, land snail, rough tailed monitor, desert iguana, horny toad lizard. We were aiming between two or three different species with at least one arboreal and a terrestrial. We made tables to compare the humidity, temperature, temperament, diet and size. After cutting animal out like the halloween crab and the rough green snake due to the fact that even if they are primarily terrestrial or arboreal, respectfully will travel to the ground or climb and may harm or get harmed by the other animals. I was hoping for a snake but we sadly weren’t able to find any species that are compatible with each other. We then narrowed it down into ten different potential groups that consist of the bounds previously mentioned. After that we listed out potential problems with each of the groups, we had discussed which groups will mostly work together with the less amount of complications. These groups consists of the giant millipede, land snail, house gecko, blue tongue skink, sugar glider, hissing cockroach, and crested gecko. I would enjoy having the sugar gliders and a blue tongue skink. This is because I would want to see how mammals and reptiles would interact with each other, while being within the same enclosure.
We had started to annotate the journals for the first draft lit review that is due in a little less than two weeks. I had started to annotate the Parasites in pet reptiles and Predators as mediators:Differential antipredator behavior in competitive lizards species in a multi-predator environment. We had used the the list from the Parasites in pet reptiles that listed multiply pet reptiles and did research on them to see any more potential candidates for our enclosure. Tags:#Problem Solving #Communication #Collaboration Photo Reference: cbreptile.com. (n.d.) blue tongued skinks. [Photo]. Retrieved from: https://www.cbreptile.com/product/blue-tongue-skink-for-sale/ So it’s been a while. Charlie and I have gotten a lot done in terms of getting our footing. The biggest thing we did was writing a practice Lit Review, which was NOT fun because of some miscommunication. It was very helpful to learn how to read and annotate peer reviewed journals and in how to get a lot of writing done in a short time. It was unhelpful in terms of mental health. I don’t know about Charlie but I know that working on it took all of my energy. We also started working on finding sources for our actual lit review. The latest thing we got done was reworking our timeline and going more in depth for said timeline. Working on all of this, we found we need to better hash out what species we want to put in the terrarium. Looking for sources, it was very overwhelming to find general information about multi species exhibits. Therefore we decided to switch around our plan a bit and find what to put in the exhibit now instead of deciding as we find sources.
The oldest thing we did was working on reworking our SWOT analysis. We just had to go in, make some changes to how detailed we were, and add some more tabs of information. It was on the easier side of everything we did since the last blog post. The practice Lit Review was about the human Gut Microbiome and I now know a lifetime’s amount of information around the bacteria in my gut. Never will I look at Alzheimer's the same again. The past few weeks were in no way easy, but they were doable, and it showed us how difficult capstone could really be. Our plan for this week is to get all of the species we want to house hashed out, work on reading sources, and find more journals. That is all. Tags: #communication #progress #timeline #lit review #information and literacy. PreziBase. (n.d.) TImeline Curves - Prezi Template. [infographic]. Retrieved from: http://prezibase.com/free/preview/timeline-curves-diagram-simple-colorful-prezi-presentaton-temp late.jpg |
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January 2019
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