“Reflection is the repetition of periodically stepping back to ponder the meaning to self, and to others in one’s immediate environment about what has recently transpired” (Raelin, J 2001). The following reflective essay will deliberate how my attitude and personality influenced the communication styles I used while dealing with my group. This will be justified through theories, academic literatures and personal surveys conducted throughout this course. My involvement throughout this group assignment
Feedback offers focus beyond the grade received and coupled with the skill of reflection, action to praise ourselves and continue performing our strengths whilst improving our weaknesses, is granted (Schon, 1991). Utilising Gibb’s (1998) reflective model, this assignment produces critical reflection on feedback from my presentation and other sources. The task of producing a presentation on our learning process is one which significantly challenged me to use and develop my reflection skills. As stated
On the 12th-14th of May, first year students of the UTS Design faculty stayed on Cockatoo Island to do field work in groups. Our assignment was to create three maps of specific features of the island in a non literal way. The brief was very open which was both easy because we did not have to follow rules, yet difficult because it was too broad. My group consisted of five members decided two weeks before the camp, Rosie and Eliza from interior design, Roy from industrial design, Yael from fashion
The reason that I chose topic was that I had this issue with my family for long time. I saw good opportunity to express myself to other people and for the first time I speak about it with someone outside the family. As I said on my presentation I always had problem to communicate with my family (grandparents, uncle and aunt). One of the reason that I took this class instated of public speaking was the problem that I’m having. That was last time that I doubt myself. I thought I was the problem and
WOW When I first came into this class, introduction to indigenous studies, I was uncertain of what to expect but really interested. Part taking in my major towards history and noticed this class I immediately pounced on it as I was quite interested and very pleased. I have been paying attention to many circumstances going on with the indigenous people, their land and culture over the past few years. As even into the first day of class it opened my eyes to a whole new way of life, situations and
Early in his presentation Richard Locke identifies that globalisation brings on a number of challenges that managers have to face in their daily decision process. Globalisation has sparked a debate over labour standards practised by employers around the world, particularly in developing countries. Excessive work hours, low wages, poor health and safety regulations are among a few of the issues. In my opinion usage of child labour in factories has to be addressed the most. I believe that no child
a. The goals I had for my classmates, understand what Skinner’s Behaviorist Operate Conditioning Theory. This is the idea that behavior is determined by, reinforcement, or punishment, which makes it more or less likely that the behavior will occur again. My second goal was to have them identify and understand reliability and validity. Reliability is the extent to which it will reproduce the same results. Well, validity is the quality of being factually sound. The third goal for my part of the lesson
This fall semester of 2014 has been an interesting and learning experience for myself. I haven’t attend school in nearly a decade and was unsure of what to expect from my teachers and myself. I would have to say being in Professor Dybala’s English 1302 to start my school day is interesting. She is an energetic professor and I’m able to feel her passion for teaching and that motivate me to try my best in her class as the rest of my classes. I was driven to do the best of my ability and whatever the
Look Back (1) For this assignment based on a dementia case study, we were placed in a group of four. On November 18th, we presented on the subtopics, specifically, wandering and elopement of the patient to our classmates and professor. My group collaborated well with each other, but differed in opinion about the inclusion of research and online video in our presentation. As a presenter, I felt that we did not present as smoothly as we would have liked, due to nervousness and anxiety when teaching
As a second semester freshman, I found English 102 to be one of my favorite classes. My professor Sally Benson, structured our class’s curriculum around issues in the prison system. More specifically juveniles in adult prisons, college classes for incarcerated individuals, and prison privatization. I found this quite interesting because every assignment we did directly correlated to these three issues. In the beginning of the semester, we, as a class, analyzed all three of these issues, to get a
This was my first speech class that I have ever taken. I was surprised that Montgomery College required such a course. However, I was also very anxious to take the course–I am not very comfortable speaking in public. I think that I do not have too much extrovertedness in me to be comfortable with speaking to a group. My informative speech, was the first presentation I had even given to a class. In high school, because of my limited English knowledge, I was never pressured by my teachers to do presentation
“There are two secrets to making a good presentation: preparation and practice” (p.6) this from Hindle (1998) gives clear instruction on to how best go about starting a presentation. First the subject matter must be refined, the purpose of the presentation decided and the tone set. From this point it is easier to start gathering materials, the sources will be dictated by the type of presentation being given. If the presentation is lighter in nature it would be acceptable to gather information from
After being given the murder of Nisha Patel-Nasri to study, the initial starting point was to gather as much information as possible about the case, a YouTube documentary (real crime UK 2010) on the case and investigation leading to the arrest and sentence of Fadi nasri and the other men involved gave us a good starting point for the investigation. The discovery of this documentary and the depth it went into created a feeling of intrigue and a form of excitement toward the case and the want to find
The late co-founder of Apple Inc and Pixar Animation Studios Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University’s 2005 graduation is perhaps one of the most motivational presentations ever delivered to young people. In fact, it has the ability to motivate anyone with aspirations. In his message before the graduates enter into a new world, Jobs used personal setbacks in his life and how he ascended from them in an effort to encourage them to pursue their dreams. In the initial stage of the presentation
Writing 39B gave me an impressive impression when I got in the first class because my previous writing and academic English classes were full of Chinese but now there are few Chinese student so I felt pretty anxious because of the higher competitive. That really challenged me a lot, I had to focus on it to keep the step of the class. Rhetorical analysis is a thesis of this class and we had done many exercises for it. What impressed me was the critical reading of the story “Bloodchild”, a sci-fi
On November 12 I attended the Emotional intelligence presentation at the Communiversity in Queen Creek. The speaker that night was Diana Creel Elarde, she a psychology professor at the Chandler-Gilbert Community College also the Founder of Emerging Insight. Ms. Elarde has 25 years in technology sales and management. Ms. Elarde is a Xerox Global imaging Leader, as also the speaker and author were she addresses both development of business and personal areas. The presentation was aimed towards someone
“Tis a success – total success” I thought. “My grade and my sanity had been saved once again by the intuition of myself and my adjutant, Major Whaley!” as I called him. It was a habit of mine, calling people a rank by their usefulness in an attempt to influence the environment around me. It was blatantly obvious that I’d been in my most jovial mood after the victory of the presentation wars of 13:00 hours. At least not before my presentation was challenged by numerous classmates I would call enemies
The purpose of this reflection essay is to demonstrate my understanding of how the content of the course and the assessment tasks that were completed. I will be reflecting on how these tasks have influenced my personal practice framework and illustrate my personal growth as well as my learning as a result of undertaking the activities included in the course throughout the semester. This reflection essay will cover areas that were new to me within the course. It will include areas where I was able
Many factors exist that lead individuals to believe that our memories are accurate, even if we are remembering them incorrectly. According to Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (2014) people are likely to misinterpret their memories of what they know and are able to accomplish. This illusion can be demonstrated through testing an individual’s abilities and knowledge. A person’s weak spots in their learning and memory can be brought to light through testing (Brown, Roediger & McDaniel, 2014). There are
passage of Genesis 34: Dinah and the Shechemites. In this story Anita Diamant gives a voice to Simeon and Levi’s sister, Dinah, who is known as the woman who was raped then later loved by Shechem. After Shechem’s injustice of Dinah, Shechem and his city were slaughtered by Simeon and Levi. Both bible passages and the novel The Red Tent provide some similar and some different characteristic traits for Simeon and Levi which in turn allows the readers to take away and learn more from the Midrash story