My GT Experience

Hi everyone!

This post will be on my GT experience some weeks ago!

We were split into groups of 4 each and I was glad to be grouped with 2 of more friends, plus Zech! As we were really worried for the presentation, my group met up a few times to rehearse together. Throughout our meeting, each of us would present to the other members and we would watch out for every details of the presenter and his/her content and slides. Detailed and critical comments were then given to the presenter. Personally, I feel that this is a good way to spot out any mistakes that we usually make, such as excessive hand gestures or lack of eye contact. However, very often when there are real audiences in the actual presentation, the situation is very different and I tend to make certain mistakes that I would not usually make, specifically, my pacing and spacing of words. 

When it came to the presentation day itself, I was really scared though we had several rehearsals together as a group. Overall I felt that my group did a fairly good job and we had great coordination! :D 

However, for my presentation, I committed the same mistake as I usually made whenever I get anxious. And this is something that I do not realise, my pacing and spacing of the words. Probably, I did not fully internalise my content and was just "dumping" the datas to the audience. Worst of all, my fast pacing of words were not understandable to the audience which honestly, was rather disappointing with myself. However, I was glad that my last slide helped me to summarise what I mentioned earlier even if the audience did not catch what I said earlier. 

Therefore, I really treasure the feedbacks received from my classmates and teacher because they pointed out my weakness and allow me to understand where my weaknesses are and how can i further improve. But overall, it was a good experience to the start of the bizcom presentation! :)

"Skeleton" of Report

Problem: Whether NUS should implement Facebook in their teaching

Purpose: The purpose of this report is to explore the different viewpoints of using Facebook in teaching and to convince NUS professors to/not to implement Facebook

Questions:  

·     What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook from both parties’ perspective?

·     Would Facebook be an effective learning resources for the students compared to its current school website?

·         Which are the courses/modules suitable for the implementation of Facebook?

·      What are the intentions of using Facebook from the student's and professor's point of view?

·     Apart from education, what are some other major problems (faced by both parties) that will impede learning while using Facebook? E.g. technical problem of Facebook?

·    What the students and NUS professors really think about this teaching initiative?

Format of report:

   1)   Executive Summary

·         A one page summary on what the report will be about

   2)   Table of Contents

  

   4)   Introduction

·         Background of the issue

·         PPQ

·         Scope

·         Limitations

   5)   Findings

      Interpret the given data and do some research if necessary

   6)   Conclusions (Body)

·           Provide explanation of key findings, present findings and highlight key points of research

   7)   Recommendations

·      Based on the conlusions above, recommend if NUS should implement Facebook in its modules and courses.

·      Explain, describe and concretize the reason for the recommendations

  

 8)   Conclusion (final)

·      Revisit the PPQ

·      Highlight key findings, conclusions and recommendations

·      Be highly persuasive

Resolving Intercultural Conflict: Turbans

I believe most of us have heard of or even played the game where we would pinch our friend's arm when we see a Indian man wearing a turban, obliging our friend to tell us what the color of the turban is before we stop pinching them. This little "game" may seem quite interesting and fun to some of us but as Chinese or any other races, we do not realized that this "game", passed on from few generations, may be offensive to the Indians.

So one day, this friend of mine, YC, was walking to the train station with his friends when he spotted an Indian man wearing a turban. Being mischievous, he immediately pinched one of his friend's arm and ask "what colour, tell me, quick!" Unfortunately, after his friend answered him, the Indian man walked towards YC and confronted him. "What game are you guys playing?! Don't think I don't know what are you all doing! Don't you know that this is very offensive to our religion? Why are you taking the colour of our turban as a joke?" the man said angrily. He was really offended by it. Stunned, my friend was shocked and apologized to the man. To think that this "game" have been passed down from so many generations; even the Indians themselves know about it. YC had never expected the Indians to know about it and even confronted him.

2 questions: 

If you were YC, apart from apologizing, what would you have done when the man confronted you?

Would you still continuing playing this "game" when you already know that it is offensive to them?