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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
[Mess with the best, die like the rest...]
For one of my modules, project groups take turn to prepare tutorial summaries. Basically, the tutor wants us to summarise what was discussed in class, and submit a copy to him. He would then put it online, in the class forums, for other classes he's in charge of to view as well. So all 3 classes taught by him would be able to know what's going on in the other 2 classes.
As luck would have it, my project group was asked to do the 1st tutorial summary. It goes a little something like this:
Summary of CS1105 Tutorial Group 19's First Tutorial (Jan 28th, 2005)
The initial part of e tutorial was spent on basic admin matters, with our tutor emphasizing the importance of our participation in the tutorial and forums.
Then, we started our discussion on the significant increases/decreases in Internet Application usage. Our tutor wanted us to focus on the factors which led to the increase/decrease from 2002-2003 and not merely any reason which would apply in other years as well.
The top increase was Online Learning/E-Learning. Possible reasons offered included an economic downturn during which people had to upgrade themselves to stay competitive as well as increased marketing efforts by e-learning companies which subsequently led to greater awareness and adoption of e-learning in our society. The top decrease was Chat/Instant Messaging(IM). Some reasons offered were that people were too busy with online learning to have time to chat, handphone rates were decreasing and phone calls became more economical and chat/IM was no longer a novelty to users and thus they used it less.
Went over the differences in LBS and GPS. Also discussed were the privacy/ethical concerns raised when using such services. Our class agreed that tracking e whereabouts of a person without his/her consent was definitely an invasion of his privacy. However, this did not apply when e person was a small child as he was not mature enough. One point raised was that there could be health hazards to the child should e parent offer to purchase a handphone for his child so as to be able to track him.
We started off with e last motion which stated that " Cyberspace is a great place for shy people to start a relationship". The general concenus was that while it was fine to start one, it would be in the best interests of all parties involved for the relationship to be carried over to the real world, rather than sustained solely in cyberspace. A very interesting point raised was that over the internet, we tend to portray who we want to be, rather than who we truly are. This could mislead the other party and lead to double personality traits in ourselves.
Prepared by:
[Names Deleted]
Now I don't know about you, but I think this is a pretty comprehensive summary. Today, someone from another tutorial group posted this message:
[Tutor Name Deleted], I have the following questions and suggestions.
Firstly, is the tutorial summary done by the tutors themselves, or by the students inside the tutorial group?
Whether or not this was done by the tutor/student, I did not find that the summary for the tutorials, especially for tutorial 1 of group 19, a good work. The summary did not in any wany cover the work done in the actually tutorial, thus omitting a lot of interesting points that has been discussed in the classes. Especially, the summary for tutorial 1, group 20 was a very poor summary. It contains nothing but only a few lines of text, which can even be done by any students who have never attended the tutorial!
Even though we do attend the tutorial, we also need to review the knowledge being discussed in class. So I'm looking forward to a much more detailed and significant tutorial summary. Hopefully the summary for the next tutorials will be better.
Thanks.
What the fuck!?
Seeing how I did most of the summary, I couldn't take that lying down. I posted a message of my own:
Hi [Name Deleted].
Coming from the team that did the 1st tutorial summary for Group 19, I would like to ask what do you consider to be "a good work". Reason being I'd like to improve myself, to make sure that my team submit a summary that is considered "good work" the next time we are called upon.
Also, it seems that you are unsure whether tutors or students prepared the tutorial summary. I would like to point out that at the end of our summary, the names of the students who prepared the summary were appended.
You raised the point that the summary did not cover the work done in the actual tutorial, and that lots of interesting points have been omitted. In that case, may I ask what are the points we missed out, so that we can add it to the summary and re-submit it.
Thank you, and have a nice day. :)
Let's see what happens next.
It's on, motherfucker. Oh it's on......
^^^ by Locksley @ 11:12 PM.
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