When I first signed up for this course, I was a little apprehensive. At first glance, I thought it was a very rigid and boring module. However, after the first lesson, I had a very different impression. I felt that this module was going to be fun and a good experience.
The most important take off that I had was the ability to communicate effectively. I have always felt that communication was the most important factor in all relationships be it friends or family. This module has allowed me to learn more about communication especially with people we are going to work with in the future. Being trapped in the academic world is very different from working life especially with how we deal with interpersonal relationships. Most students learn from a fresh new experience after they start working. This module has allowed me to have a head start and therefore a more valuable individual capable of working better with other colleagues in the future.
Through proper lessons planned by classmates, the knowledge of effective communication has been imparted properly to me. However, this module is not only about passive learning. Taking this to a higher level, what we learned in these lessons were put to practise for the projects of peer teaching and group presentation. Effective communication allowed me and my partner Shu Yi to have an efficient way during our planning for the peer teaching session. There was no hiccups at all and everything went smoothly. As for our group presentation, it allowed the 4 of us, Xiaoping, Jonathan, Yixin and I to have fluid sessions. We recognised each other's strength and weaknesses and put them to fit our roles.
Overall, I feel that I have learned a lot from this module and I hope to be a better person in communicating with others.
Finally, I would like to thank our tutor, Madam Fazilah for her wonderful mentoring as well as my awesome peers from this module for a truly wonderful experience. This may be my favourite module of all time in NUS.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Reflection on Project discussion
It has indeed been a long time since I last had a project. I daresay at least 5 years ago since "Project Work" in year one of my junior college. Compared to working with a group in JC, it was a whole new experience. It was definitely more mature in terms of content and ideas. These 6 weeks of planning together with XiaoPing, Jonathan and Yixin has been quite an eye turner.
One of the difficulties we faced was time. Since we all had different timetables and commitments, it was very difficult to get a time whereby we could all meet. In the end, we had to sacrifice some of our personal time during public holidays or off days from school just to meet up. Moreover, we dont live near the same area so we had to come back to school for our project meetings.
The second difficulty was that some of our ideas were conflicting, it took us at least two sessions before we finally decided on the scope of our proposal. However, we were all quite mature and after much consideration, we concluded our topic.
One interesting experience i personally encountered was working together with a foreign exchange student. We tried to improvise around our proposal with her. Being a foreign student, she was not very sure about our transport system in Singapore (part of our scope of our proposal). Moreover, her English was not very fluent therefore we tried our best to translate some of the information in mandarin for her to help her understand better. What I took back from this experience was that we were flexible and played everybody's role to the fullest.
What I felt that could be improved upon was that we could have made use of technology such as skype to do some of our plannings instead of wasting precious time going back to school. I felt that since technology was already there, we should make use of it instead. Maybe if there is another project in the future, I may recommend to my group members to use it.
Overall, I managed to make use of our earlier lessons on effective communication and understanding other people into practise with my group mates. It was an enjoyable project and it was overall successful.
One of the difficulties we faced was time. Since we all had different timetables and commitments, it was very difficult to get a time whereby we could all meet. In the end, we had to sacrifice some of our personal time during public holidays or off days from school just to meet up. Moreover, we dont live near the same area so we had to come back to school for our project meetings.
The second difficulty was that some of our ideas were conflicting, it took us at least two sessions before we finally decided on the scope of our proposal. However, we were all quite mature and after much consideration, we concluded our topic.
One interesting experience i personally encountered was working together with a foreign exchange student. We tried to improvise around our proposal with her. Being a foreign student, she was not very sure about our transport system in Singapore (part of our scope of our proposal). Moreover, her English was not very fluent therefore we tried our best to translate some of the information in mandarin for her to help her understand better. What I took back from this experience was that we were flexible and played everybody's role to the fullest.
What I felt that could be improved upon was that we could have made use of technology such as skype to do some of our plannings instead of wasting precious time going back to school. I felt that since technology was already there, we should make use of it instead. Maybe if there is another project in the future, I may recommend to my group members to use it.
Overall, I managed to make use of our earlier lessons on effective communication and understanding other people into practise with my group mates. It was an enjoyable project and it was overall successful.
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