Task 4 Jeasus's Birth Song - Reflection

Task 4 Jesus' Birth Song 

        When we prepared the RP1, the first difficulty we encounter was the problem with our computer and our computer skills. I never used Blogger before, so I didn’t know how to create a blog or post a new article. Furthermore, during the preparation of First Video and Second Video, I realized the importance of our computer hardware. You don’t need to waste your time on time lag. And, the level of understanding about your computer is also really important. Initially, I didn’t know the two small holes next to the computer camera have the microphone function! I didn’t know some headsets with microphone need two female jacks of connector. After this, I realized I am some kinds of computer idiot. In short, with a good computer we can get the effectiveness. And, with the familiarity to our computer functions and conditions of our computers, we can enhance the efficiency, too.

        

        During RP1, the newcomers are really quiet. Though two of them, Tina and Robert, are good at speaking, their voices are really small during the activity. After I reflect the reason for that, I discovered I didn’t give them a lot of opportunities to reply---they only needed to reply the words that Maria Nancy forgot. Furthermore, I didn’t call someone to reply certain questions. Thus, they keep silent because they are not sure whether other newcomers will reply or not. Most important of all, I didn’t ask the participants to leave their cell phone number to me in order to contact them. I made this mistake, so I let everyone got nervous when we couldn’t find Tina before the start of the activity. I revised these mistakes in RP2. In RP2, I called the newcomers by their appearances and the color of their seats to avoid them from not replying and to encouragement to interact with the environments.  

        

         After RP1, we found the discontinuity of the two worlds, the savage world and civilized world. Thus, we started to connect the two stories. And, because in Task 4, Maria Nancy is the one who fly to the savage world to save the newcomers from savage island, so she need to make connection to the savage world, that is, playing a role in savage island. It is hard to explain why Ralph became Maria Nancy, so we just used some nonsense reasons such as the dragons hit Ralph’s private part. However, these nonsense reasons won the participants’ laughter. Thus, I discovered that the emotions of the participants will be affected by the story that we created. Though the added story part, make the activity time longer, it indeed increase the continuity of our activities between two opposite world. 

Moreover, the whole project cannot be done by one person. We need to team work. Furthermore, if we want to do the project well, we need to have the communication skills such as giving suggestions without losing the politeness. Though Tony's group and our group are in the "different world," but we teamwork with each other really well. At first, we are separated into two groups and we have different ideas about the buildings, story lines, but we never fought and argued with each others. Instead, we negotiated with each other and tried to combined the two opposite worlds. Therefore, I want to say thank you to the savage group. During RP2, Michael sat far from us, so I couldn’t see clearly what happen to him, but Ruby, Tony, and Jill helped me to take care of him. That was really sweet. And, as we revised the narrative of our stories from RP1 to RP2, we always discussed it peacefully just like the words from Sherlock, "Keep calm and think!" because it is helpless for us to use sentimental way to discuss. I think it is a great attitude to do things. 

I want to say thank you to my group members, too. Any time we have problems, we work together. Interestingly, every time teacher said something to us in English, we all reply "yes," "oh," or "ok." However, noticed that we all interpreted it differently as we discussed the requirements teacher had said. However, we would not argue with each other, but I would ask teacher first in Chinese to make the goal clear and then we would continue discussing it. Thus, I notice that as people do their works, they need make the goal clear first because the goal is like the light which can guide us to the right way. Without the goal, we will get lost. 

I really satisfy the outcome of our buildings, proposal, and the final project and I even gain the close friendship with Jumito and Andri. Therefore, I want to say thank you to teacher. Thank you for giving me this challenging and unforgettable course.