United Nations World Issues Reflection-May 30
Link to assignment: http://ssmeetsit.edublogs.org/2007/05/30/united-nations-world-issues-reflection/http://ssmeetsit.edublogs.org/2007/05/30/united-nations-world-issues-reflection/
#1Think about the presentations and reflect on the projects your classmates presented and the information you listened to. Explain with details and specific information what you learned, what you found interesting, surprising, or shocking about the presentations you heard in class.
I guess not many people realize that there are many world issues, or rather how if affects organisms. Before class I knew there were issues the worlds faces but not how much it affects the people and that they are a bigger problem than I thought. Some think that “oh, the U.N takes care of that” they actually don’t know that the problem isn’t as well as they think and they can do something to help. In class I got to learn the details and be aware of these many issues in the many topics. But mainly only one drilled in my head. It was Biodiversity. This includes things dealing with the Earth and animals. I found it dreadful and surprising that when they want shark fins, they only take the fins of the shark and throw the other piece of the shark back in the ocean because shark meat isn’t worth a lot. What is going to happen to the sharks? They can’t survive with out their fins. Doing this not only hurts sharks painfully but lessens the amount every year as unlike chicken, the fins are only a little bit of the shark. Plus, you’ll need a lot to feed 100 people!
I really enjoyed listening to this topic as it wasn’t about wars and people but animals and the atmosphere like global warming. Although I don’t really like seeing sad pictures of animals, I think the Biodiversity group used the right pictures to shoot their target down in the Imovie. There was a verity of pictures, sad and happy. Another part of the media I enjoyed was the music they chose. It really fit the theme. They also didn’t keep replaying the same songs like some groups did!
#2 What would you change to improve your project/presentation if you were to do the assignment again?
For the media, I don’t think I would change much. I thought making a I movie was the best thing to do. I actually had a goal for the audience that I told my group before choosing a media to show our work. I felt that a Imovie was more affective in the sense that, it wasn’t boring like wikispaces and power points (not saying that the wikis and power points were bad) The Imovie was something knew. I knew there would be some time constrains but it was really worth it. Being able to add music really helped as it could set the theme and enhance the topic like what we wanted! J Next time I also wish that our group could have practice presenting so we wouldn’t have to look at the script every time. But, I did manage not to look half the time when presenting. I also thought there should have been way more content even though we did find a lot of information in our research records.
One thing I really like about this project is that I could reinforce my group skills and make it even better. I learned how to handle different situations and I hope next time I would do even better and adjust accordingly to what there is need too. J
* sorry, I couldn’t do paragrah spacing as the blog wouldn’t allow it.
