MY WEBSITE ACTION PLAN Name: David Yim

INITIAL BRAINSTORM:

ISSUE= Immigrant Asian maids maltreatment and being refused right of permanent residency in Hong Kong

Possible elements of my issue I could study (you may add more):

1. The story of Indonesian Immigrant Maid Erwiana 2. Issues immigrant maids face in Hong Kong.

Issue element # 1 Issue element # 2

What do I already know? What do I already know?
I know about Erwiana, an Indonesian Immigrant maid I know that Immigrant maids have a lot of
that has been maltreated and severely injured. disadvantages in Hong Kong. As I have seen on the
news, there are cases where the immigrant maids
have been severely maltreated by their employers

What do I need to find out? What do I need to find out?

I need to find out about the more precise information, I will need to find some specific data. These data
like how the employers was charged and what impact include surveys which shows facts and figures which
Erwianas case has done in the society I can use in the issue (Page two) section

What search terms should I use? What search terms should I use?
- Erwiana Hong Kong - Immigrant maids maltreatment
- Erwiana employer - Statistics involving immigrant maids
- Erwiana Impact on society - Immigrant maids in Hong Kong

ACTION PLAN: (add more rows if needed)

SOURCES of Information: Dont just say Library, Books or Google. For example, Library Database eg
Time Magazine, Biography in Context, Issues: Understanding Controversy & Society etc
Fill this table in BEFORE and DURING your research.
What information do I need to
find?
What is the issue of immigrant
maids in Hong Kong and how
severe is it?
What actions have been done by
the government
What actions have been done by
the immigrant maids to solve the
issue?
What happened to Erwiana, an
Indonesian immigrant maid?
What actions can we take to help
this issue
What SOURCES could I use to
get this information? (be
specific)
Using the Coconuts Hong Kong
website
Using the governments labour
website
Using the wall street journal
website
The South China Morning Post
website
The Mission for Migrant Workers
website
How useful was this source?
This website provides surveys
about maltreatment of immigrant
maids, and precisely, using
different angles, to show what
immigrant maids are suffering
from in Hong Kong.
The governments labour website
has shown laws the government
has made to support the
immigrant maids. This source has
been useful.
This website has shown a protest
against the Hong Kong
government that doesnt allow
permanent residency for
immigrant maids. The protesters
are not only immigrant maids, but
also Hong Kong people.
This website has clearly shown
how Erwiana was maltreated,
what happened to the employer,
and how Erwiana became an
inspiration for achiveing fair
rights for immigrant maids.
The Mission for Migrant Workers
is an organisation to help and
support immigrant maids in Hong
Kong. There is a part called Get
Involved, which tells you what
you can do to help with the issue
yourself, or through their
organisation.
Methods or tools I will use to COLLECT & RECORD my information are: (give some detail be
clear about HOW you will collect & record)
eg Tools: easybib, diigo, word, evernote, scoopit etc.
eg Methods: Notetaking, summarising, paraphrasing, mindmapping, brainstorming, cutting & pasting relevant
notes etc

Fill in AFTER you finish

Fill in BEFORE you start your research researching
What TOOLS or METHODS will I Why will I use them/do this? What did I actually do?
use to collect & record (justify why you chose this/these
information? (incl detail) methods)

I have made a Pages to write all Because Pages is quick and can Yes, I did use a Pages to include all
my information in.
easily drag images into it. of my research

Brainstorming some information Because these information are Yes, for my important information,
and directly writing it into my
usually the important information I wrote it in the page that I will use
website
to remind me that I have to include the information, and also in the
this information in that page. pages document where I write all
my notes in

Pages needed to complete my website: What information and links will I need
Fill this table in BEFORE and DURING your website creation.

What information do I need to What Pages could I use to get How can I link the pages
convey? this information across to the together?
audience? (be specific)

These immigrant maids are
workers, not slaves.
The issue is severe and action
needs to be taken
We can solve this issue together
I will write this in my second I can link this with page three
page, the issue, as employers because page three is an example
treating the immigrant maids as of an immigrant maid being
slaves is one of the major issues treated as a slave
I will write this in my fourth page, I can link this with page two as I
the activist action, as this is where am providing solutions for the
we have to say what has been issue
done and what needs to be done to
solve this issue
I will write this in my fourth page, It is sort of a conclusion of my
the activist action, as it shows website to say that we can change
what we can do something together.
TIMEFRAME: (add more rows if needed)

Steps in the Process: Briefly outline (list) the steps you Intended Actual If dates differ briefly explain why.
will work through to complete this assessment. You Dates Dates
should include planning BEFORE researching, WHEN (MM/DD/ (If the dates are the same, you do not need to fill
you will research, then WHEN you will put together the YY) this in)
final product. Fill in the Actual Dates as you go.
Break the steps down to be clear and specific. You need a
minimum of SIX steps.

Work on my planning using this action plan. First half 2/7/17

of first
The sections I need to fill in are the ones that class
are needed to complete before my website (40mins)
2/7/17
creation
Think about a name for my activist Second 2/9/17
class
organisation. Then, Research and drops notes (80mins)
about the issue (Second page) and write it in 2/9/17

this document. Also, research a first person A bit of

account. It should be a well known case to time
(30mins at
remind people of the incident. home)

Research about what actions have already been Third 2/10/17

class
made to to improve this issue. (60mins)
2/10/17

Start writing and adding appropriate images for At home

first page and also gather all information for about 30
minutes
page two to write it in my website
Start writing page three (First person accounts) Fourth 2/16/17
class
as well as the fourth page (Activist action being (80mins)
proposed 2/16/17

Read over my four pages to double check At Home 2/17/17 One day late, 2/17/17, because I did not
10
minutes have time after school to do any work.
2/16/17

Finish my action plan At home 2/17/17 Two days early, 2/17/17, because it
20
minutes would be easier to complete my action
2/19/17 plan as I have a clearer and more precise
memory of what I have done.
Complete bibliography using action plan At home 2/18/17 One day early, 2/18/17, because I had
15
minutes time and wanted to complete this earlier
2/19/17 as I still have other homework from
other subjects
EVALUATION:

Things that went well Things that need Ways of improving

improvement
I think that I did well I could have taken less I could have worked a bit
Creating & following my action time thinking how to write faster and more efficiently
following plan because my action plan and use
action plan everything was on time more time on my website
because the website
needs more effort and
time than my action plan,
as I have to write
everything into full
sentences, while including
my research.
I did well recording my The information column of I could have written that part
Collecting and research as I was able my sources of information of my action plan more
Recording to use most of my table can be more precise.
research effectively precise, because there
are still a lot of topics and
information inside of what
I wrote.

Creating
website