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.

useful advices

Today the half of our classmates arrived to the classroom fifteen minutes after the lesson had begun. Carlos was the secretary of the day, but he also came late, so the teacher had to start the lesson. After the usual tasks, today we did not get any new activity, but the teacher told about the common mistakes, we have made before. This way, now we have to improve our exercises, we finished before. I just realized, that I have forgotten writing a conclusion about the activities, I have done, several times. But it wasn't the only one mistake I made, I am sure, so I have to spy on them, because now I don't know, which one of my activities is right and which one is wrong. So this weekend I am going to develop my statements, I have uploaded before and write them in a better way. In the end of the lesson, we get a few minutes to finish the activity from yesterday, but the half of our group missed the opportunity to work with us today and we (me, János and Carlos) were not motivated enough, so the task will be finished in the weekend by us, but of course we improved it as much, as we could.

types of assertive communication

Today we worked in groups again. I was in a group with János, Béla, Javier and Carlos. We had to search for videos in the internet, because the teacher reviewed with us the different types of assertive communication, so in the second half of the lesson we could search for examples of these different types. These types were the "Broken record", the "Fogging", the "Basic assertion", the "Empathic assertion", the "Consequence assertion", the "Discrepancy assertion" and the "Negative feeling assertion". So we had to find a good example from a movie scene. Firstly, I though it will be a very easy task, but after a few miuntes long casting, I realized it is much harder to find a scene, which is suitable in every aspect. More or less we were able to solve the problem, but couldn't finish the exercise in the class, so we should work at home. We divided the task and each of us got a type to find a perfect example for it.