Overall Introduction

This year, we are combining digital literacy with international geographical inequally.

Group Presentation

Online Security

Introduction:

We are pretending we are a online security specialist company, introducing some online risks to everyone, and how we can earn money.

Reflection:

We did great on describing risks in the limited time (3 min). But I don't think we have teamworked or allocated time well. Here's how we have done it: 

1. realizing I have a presentation due tomorrow.

2. quickly generate some ideas and send the slide deck to teammates (8 p.m.) 

3. another surprisingly responsible teammate adding some pages (probably after 9 p.m.)

4. sleep, and present it in front of the class the next day

Driving Question (Recommendation)

Introduction:

We recommended some driving questions to the class, and we came out with some questions more related to social and communities, compared to the general questions the teachers provided.

Reflection:

I believe we are teamworking well on this presentation (as you can see, every page was written in a very different tone). But one thing we can improve on is the background on the first page.

Quality of Life project

Script (drafts)

Introduction:

These are the scripts for the quality of life storyboard. We used it to brainstorm and find ideas.

Reflection:

I took good use of the script, but changed some parts of it to make it closer to the content. I think next time I can take more time to write it.

Storyboards

Introduction: 

These are the final storyboards we have, they contain some quality of life indicators that describe how people live in the fictional countries, we worked individually and shared it in our groups. 

Reflection:

One thing I can improve on is finding pictures, it should be the same person appearing in a slide deck, but the person in some pictures aren't so similar (maybe I should blur the faces?). And it's good that I worked in a quick and steady pace in this project, which means I saved a lot of time for homework, that's good.

Peer Feedback

Three classmates gave me feedback after the revised-revised driving question presentation. They wrote that I should make more eye contact with the audience, not read from the slides, and try to remember the lines (?)

I think I could practice presentation skills more by going through the slides and thinking of more stuff to say before presenting (but why don't I just type it on the slides then?), so I can have something more interesting to say when I'm standing in front of the class.

I believe this peer feedback activity is useful for some people, but maybe not me, because it only proved my hypothesis that most people aren't listening when we are presenting.

Exhibition Project (Interactive Activity)

We made a monopoly for guests to experience the life in developing countries. 

Players earn money and lose money when they land on each block. 

Whenever players receive $60000, they wins, and loses when they are broke. 

Reflection:

I think it's a good activity that includes our problem (our solution was in another activity), but we can work on the design and combine digital literacy if we have a similar project next time.

What we learn so far: 

We had learned about the NGOs, people living in developing and developed countries, and things about digital literacy. 

Outside the stuff we're taught, I learned about how to force teammates to do their work by threats, and how to abandon some homework because of the time limit.