surprise secretary

Today I was the secretary. I just had one problem with it, that I heard it form the guys sitting around me in the class. I arrived later today morning and my classmates began whispering around me, then they let me know I am the secretary today, but the teacher was in the middle of her speech, so I had to wait. After her minutes, it was my turn to start the lesson as a secretary. There wasn't anything special in today's agenda, so I just had to do my job like the secretaries always.
After the usual secretary part of the lesson Javier informed us about the project, we will work on and I asked him sending us the report of it, after writing this blogpost I am going to read it and tomorrow we will compile the slides for the presentation. I hope we will finish this preoject on time.

correcting

Today, after the usual secretary part of the lession, the teacher announced that we won't get any more activities, we just have to correct our tasks, we have done before and work on our final project. We asked in wich group we had been refered and she said we will work with Javier on his project, but Javier missed the lession on Thursday, so we will discuss the details with him on Tuesday. I hope we will be able to develope his project, but now I don't have any idea what it is about. In the end of the lession, we had to correct our activities, but I haven't gottten my swot analysis yet, so I will do it at home.

written communication

Today, the last 3 oral presentations were presented (I missed the class yesterday, but I know the others were performed yesterday). In my opinion, they were quite good, but I think, that a presentation can be much more understandable, if just one person speaks. I believe, it is easier, because the presentor doesn't have to connect his/her ideas to the others' ideas and maybe it is better for the audience as well, since this way they just have to follow the ideas of one person. After every presentation, we were able to comment and give advices to the groups, what they should improve. I think, none of the groups made any big mistake. Maybe Javier and his group should have made one or two slides with the most important points of their presentation, but it was totally understandable this way as well, so they also worked very well.
After the presentations, we collected the main points of the technical writing, then we got a new activity and two of us were interviewed by the teacher.

technical writing

On Thursday we got a new activity. In the next lessons we will talk about technical writing, so now we have to work in groups and read a chapter of an article, which is about the technical writing. We have to compile a presentation and by this presentation we will be able to explain the other groups, what our chapter was about. I just started reading it, but it seemed to be a bit boring, so I think the presentation won't be interesting too much. In the second half of the lesson, the teacher continued the interviews, so we were alone in the classroom, this way it was a bit hard to be motivated enough for working.

final project

On Wednesday, the teacher talked about how we can compose a correct presentation, because it will be the final project of this course. We will work in groups, but yesterday she didn't tell anything, in which group I will work, so now I am a bit curious, with whom I will work together and what this presentation will be about. After that the teacher started interviewing the students.I would need to have the swot analysis, which is written about me, but Janos can not do it until next week, so this way I think I will be interviewed just on next Tuesday or Wednesday.

swot

Today we tried to fill an online-test about something interesting (the teacher said it will be interesting for us, so for sure it will be). But there was a problem, when we tried to open the page, it wasn't available for everybody, because it can be opened only with Internet Explorer, so maybe we will be able work with it next week. The teacher also said it will be in spanish, so I am not sure, that we could understand everything and answer all the questions. After that we talked about the activity of next week. Each of us will be interviewed by the teacher and now we have to finish all the activities, we have done before, so I have to work hard this weekend. We also have to evaluate the tasks of one of my classmates, so after writing this blogpost I have to begin working.

assertive situations

Today we talked about different situations, when we should be assertive. Firstly, we had to envision the last situation, when we were criticized. I just remembered, when last time during an experiment of my physics class my teacher criticized the way, how I do it, but he showed me, how I can do it well, so I think it was a really assertive conversation between us. But as a conclusion of this task, we realized again, that many things depend on the details of the situation (like the other person, the mood of you/the other person, etc...). After that we solved some situations, when it is not easy to be assertive. I chose the situation, where one of my friends got money from me, but he/she has forgotten it and doesn't pay it back. In a situation like this, at first I made him/her remember the moment, when I gave him/her the money, then I would say that I need it back. But for example if I knew, that my friend is not able to pay it back, because of financial problems, I wouldn't ask him paying back, so all in all the solution always depends on a lot of detail.