I've successfully been able to put together my part of the presentation. i know we should have enjoyed the expereicne and the real assessment is in the reflective journal, but I've still found it quite difficult.
Firstly I couldn't remember any one media thing from my past that deeply affected me. And when I came up with some ideas my reflection as to how they may have effected me were a bit lame. Firstly I started out by listing everything - following other members in the group initially. and then other members realised that they wouldn't want to cover everything and whittles it down to one area. So I tried to do the same, came up with a computer game, illustrated this but found that it wasn't enough to draw from, so I wrote an alternative looking at impact of TV programme 'tomorroe's world' but then decided that actually I couldn't remember any of this either! So I slept on it and I awoke with a feeling that one game wasn't enough (and it wasn't good enough anyway) but to look at a thread of games from the male role-model perspective mixed with video clips rolled up into a Prezi. which is great because I knew that I would enjoy talking about the games, and enjoy learning a new tool in Prezi and workign out how to get youtube videos in there, with possibly remixing exiting youtube videos. SO I wrote out a basic script but still had to pad out with possible inferences the games had on my pshychi.
Meanwhile the other group members were contributing online and the Doodle poll identified 4pm today as a good time to meet on Wimba space. So we did this for 4pm. It was useful we:
Decided about the group - 2 weren't active (Julian) and Ali had explained that for a personal reason he could not help out. So we decided that it was just the four of us.
I seem to have engaged more with the distance students than the ones I meet in class. Even though I have to present with Virginia as we are both here I seem to have interacted with her less. When it came to the Wimba session she only communicated through text chat. Suzanne used voice chat. I used voice chat briefly showing my webcam at the beginning, and Mike was on webcam and voice all the time. i understand that Virginia is a non english native speaker and this is probably the reason. I hate being on webcam beacuase I'm always dressed in my scruffy cardigan but it does make you feel a bit creepy when other people don't want to reveal themselves online.
We decided the running format, identified that we needed an intro and conclusinon to tie it together and we negotiated on who would formulate and present.
We worked out where we would upload out presentation.
Suzanne asked for help on sharing her PowerPoint with voice presentation and we went through some options and I suggested Slideshare with which she has asked for help. So I will work on this this evening.
finally Mike expressed his pleasure and surprise that we were able to piecce this together in a week. I was a bit surprised at hearing this as I still regard it to be a presentation of small work-alone pieces. But there we are
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