Wednesday, August 1, 2007

A lesson as a "HOTMAIL" promoter !!

18th July 2007 (2nd Class)

Hie:) I'm back!

Today's my second lesson on technology in the Primary Education. Yea.. coming to class without any idea on today's 'agenda' but certainly with much expectation and anticipation for the lesson, I am all ready for the "SURPRISE" that's in store for us.

Under the watchful eye of Mr Sarel, our facilitator, we were instructed to form our own groups consisting of 5 or 6 members. A kindly reminder from Mr Saril: "Your are to stick to your group for all upcoming activities for the whole course. SO.. choose your group wisely."
After all the hush and buzz, we were all settled in our respective groups. The next thing to do was to appoint a group leader and to create a special unique Name reflecting each group.. And Walaa.. our group has unanimously agreed upon the name "REJUVENESCENCE".. yeah, that's the spirit. We shall together be rejuvenated, energized, and liven up as a team, as a group, in unity.

Then, came the awaiting moment when we were given the very First presentation assignment for this course...Guess what? We are all going to be 'part-time promoters' for a certain technological device such as the Digital Camera, Hotmail, Yahoo, e-mail, and other useful tools in today's digital world. Each team leader drew lots on the particular 'product' for us to work on in advertising and promoting the gadget or device, resembling what it takes to be an 'Apprentice'! haha.. We are judged on our persuasive skills in 'selling' our product through our techniques in developing good and effective Power point Slide Presentation of 5 minutes. Given the mere 45 minutes, we worked diligently in our group to come up with the Best Power point Presentation in promoting the "HOTMAIL" as the best e-mailing program. Browsing through the various search engine, we worked collaboratively, each trying to extract for information, images and advantages regarding the HOTMAIL. In the midst of this, we were really grateful to Prof Raja Maznah's visit to our Makmal and gave us a really useful and handy tip in using the "Print Screen" to be inserted in our Power point Presentation. Many thanks, Prof!

After much toiling and preparation for our slides, it's time for the "Presentation" from each group. For each group's presentation, we also had peer-evaluation whereby the particular group's presentation is being evaluated by another group as members of the audience. Some of the group really showed team work where each person in the group has a role to play during the presentation. I personally liked that idea as it reflects on the team spirit of a group. My group truly put up a good show as seemed to enj compliment from our facilita, Mr Sarel that wapture our audience's attention and bring them along as we journeMAIL. Yes, 'CONNECT WITH A CLICK' - that's the mottol we had come up with as we shout it out together as a team towards the end of our presentation.

Yea.. it was a truly insightful time as we not only gained more information regarding each of the different technological gadgets as presented by our friends, we were also enlightened on the various key points in making an effective slide presentation from our facilitator. He gave his comments and ideas on improving the visual aspect of Power Point slides such as taking into consideration the tone of the background and the impact of wordy slides on the readers. Well, he emphasized, "What is most important is to get the message across to your audience." Always keep the audience focused. And we should try our best to do away with having all the lengthy explanations printed on our slides. That's a useful reminder that I will always keep in mind.:)

As a whole, it was a good experience to practice our presentation skills being as persuasive as possible in our speech. Well, that's the whole point: selling our Product! Im glad my group did a good job. I would like to take this opportunity to name them Gladys, Izzah, Zizi, and Mastura. Thanks to u all, my dear group members. :)


3 comments:

Alison said...

Hi...again it's me, Ervinna. Well, am i your fan? Hehe... Yeah... the facilitator did provide us an interesting activity where we became the ambassadors who were supposed to promote our products. Though it's not the real apprentice show organized by Donald Trump, still we treasured and enjoyed the activity very much right. In fact, i would say your group did a good job that day and if i am not mistaken, you guys received compliments from Mr. Shahril too as you guys actually took up the real ambassador roles to get our attention and lead us to delve into your products. That is the art of printscreen that you guys utilized. Bravo!
Yeah, i do agree with you that we did learn about new things from the second lesson of PKEY3101, where Mr. Shahril managed to iron out some of our mistakes, which we shall take into consideration, such as some of our slides were too wordy and the colour of the background and our objectives of the presentation.
All right, i think that's all for my comment for this blog. Have a nice day(^_^)

By Alison

ervinna said...

HI dear Alison, wow, I must say that u're really my big fan.. ya, my big great fan.. haha! Thank you so much for your time spent reading through my blogs and leaving a footprint in every blog. Ya, I would say every class is a new insight learnt and for this particular class, Mr Sharil did pointed out most of our mistakes in powerpoint slides. Guess we should really bear them in mind in order to improve our powerpoint presentation skills.

O ya,I will surely drop by your blog and give u my comments.. Sure sure.. Im coming.. haha..Just be patient ya girl:)

Have a nice day!

starvalley said...

i think we're like entering the reality show..but the camera was not there and we had limited time to prepare slides with colourful or beatiful design