Reflection for Week 6

Critiqing my own presentation sounds so weird. But after my own presentation, I realized that IT stuff are really 'not reliable'. While I was awaiting for the Sheng Zhi to present, Mrs Xing came to my mind. E-learning assignment became real.

Other than the technical issue, where java is not found, I realized one important word that most presenters will tend to forget during presenting is the FOUR letter word.

TIME.

During presentation, presenters tend to overshoot their allocated time. Usually we lose track of time because either we are too engross in the presentation or we 'wasted' time due to nervousness. But how do we really keep track of time during group presentation and how do we as group members react after someone overshot their time? I hope i can see the answers from the other group.

Back to the Games my group played. We went to station 3 and 4. Station 3 is where the flash simulations game were. Some of the games do have some underlying meaning in it. Like the flash game involving a pig with a boat. They want to bring across the idea of being thrifty. But some of the games are like both slow and too 'lame'.

I feel this flash games are mostly suited for primary school kids. But Secondary school students may think that they are too slow-paced and to them, may lead them to become bored. Using these games to engage students may not be optimal. But these games may still able to serve the purpose of delivering simple basic concepts.

For Station 4, we played Wii sports. I am still in the midst of trying to figure out how Wii help in learning. I hope I will be able to clear this question as I attend more lessons. But I can say that GBL do create a more relaxed environment for learning. But where is the learning? That's for me or the rest of my groupmates to enlighten me.

More games to come. More time to understand GBL. :)