BHO3473 (2)

this one is about the presentation, this was a group presentation, it worthed 10 marks, i thought. but we got 3 out 10 marks, so low. all the Chinese Groups got very low marks. I heared that, the method waw wrong, so we got that low marks.
here is the design paper:

OBJECTIVE: The topic of the presentation is non-verbal communication. After our presentation, the audiences will understand the concept of non-verbal communication well.



TEACHING MODE: Several teaching modes will be used during the presentation.

Lecture: To give the audiences the outline of the non-verbal communication, we will talk about some conceptions first, such as verbal communication, non-verbal communication and so on.

Role-play: In this part, the audience will be a part of our presentation and make the presentation livelier.

Quiz and game: In this part, it will check to what extent the audience know the non-verbal communication.

LOG:

Our group had four meetings before the presentation.

The first meeting held after the first tutorial on 7th January. In this meeting, we just exchanged the contact number and email. It was a very shot meeting, just taken about 10 minutes.

The second meeting was held on 9th January. In this meeting, we divided the presentation into three parts. Herbert did the first part, Nicole and Jessie take the second one, while Tiffany and Nancy did the last part. Also, we discussed what should talk about in each part. The first part gave an outline of the presentation. The second part would deal with the definition of non verbal communication. The last part would state something can affect the non verbal communication. To make the presentation easily to understand, there should be a quiz and game included during the presentation.

We had a meeting on Saturday 17th January as our third meeting. Before the meeting, we finished a draft of our own part. We met in the library at 12o’clock to about 5o’clock. During the meeting, we discussed how to do the PowerPoint. Then Herbert collected them and typed them on the PowerPoint.

The last meeting was held one day before the presentation. We met in the library and watch the PowerPoint. At the same time, we read our own part and did the exercises about presentation. This meeting was taken 2 hours.

No one was absent from each meeting.

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Group work is very useful and effective. First, during the discussion, different people present different ideas. When we work together, many new ideas will come out. Secondly, team work can save time. In the group, different people do the different part. Then, collecting different part can form a full presentation. As well as, we can research more information during the team work.

I am the leader of the group, I organized the meeting, and decided the time and content for each meeting. Sometimes, I found it difficult to decide the time of meeting, Different people live in different areas, and someone even lived far from others. However, I asked everyone and know the timetable of each member, and found a suitable time for everyone.

Also I found using email and phone is the way to make the communication more effective, because we couldn’t hold the meet too much, but using email and phone can solve this problem easily.

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The process of our group was satisfied with our members’ expectation. However, in the meeting, conflict often arose when there was a misunderstanding or ambiguity about one thing or when there were communication barriers that prevent full communication. When the conflicts happened, I often played a role of peacemaker who tried to calm down every member; furthermore, listened to their both ideas patiently and thought them carefully; lastly, gave my view and tried to satisfy both sides.

Though this group work, I have summarized some ways which could enable the group to become more effective. Firstly, being a good listener is an efficiency to reduce the times of conflicts. Next, being responsive – that means really listening to feedback and comments – will help improve team efficiency and effectiveness. Lastly, the informal leader will be more helpful to the team than the formal leader, because they do not hold a position of designated authority. So everyone could be a facilitator in different situations and not be in a controlling position.

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Our group members are very active in this presentation, we hold 4 meetings, discussing the processing of the presentation and distributing each member’s work. Within every meeting, we can make a deeper research or investment about our topic. The biggest problem I think is how to explain the topic in a lively method. We do not want to make this presentation a very bored and ponderous lecture, so we then decide to do some research via internet and find some interesting quizzes about our topic. But good quizzes are still hard to find, anyway, we finally found several representative quizzes and examples.

On the other hand, we have some problems which we did not solve. In order to make our group more effective, we have to solve these problems. The most important thing we should do is become more corporately, remember we are a team; we can read other partner’s work then give them advices to improve the whole work.

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In every meeting, I mainly take the responsibility of enriching others’ idea and finding more useful information. In order to thoroughly cover the content of the topic we study, I try to make the material variety and utilized.

In terms of the team, with the same aim to make a good group work, everyone in our group participate fully in the group process that nobody feel left out or ignored and make significant contribution to the group’s work. We all contribute to make an effective and efficient group process by providing opinions, avoiding self-centered roles, respecting member differences. All group members are committed to group’s goal and willing to share and listen. When difficulties arise, although little conflicts occur, everyone try best to solve the problem rather than avoid it. Everyone can analyze the problem that confronts the group and identify the solution which is always the one appropriately manages disagreements and conflict. In a word, with every group members’ effort, the teamwork is getting better and better.
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In order to make our presentation successful, our group member all did a great job both during the meeting and after the meeting. Each group member plays a very important role. We make sure our idea of what to write about of the non-verbal communication and decide which person to prepare each part. Then wet take the information we got to discuss the specific point to write about. When we have discussing, every people behave themselves quite well. We were all willing to speak our opinion and share our own idea to others. During each meeting I usually to be the person who like to make some suggestions to others. And most of them we discussed and our group member accepted. I like to listen to others’ opinion carefully and then give my own suggestion timely and accurately. Our group member all give their own opinion and then listen to others. So at the end each part of our presentation blend all group members’ idea. I do think we do effective group job.