The Mock Project Reflection

Group Evaluation
It is time to review your ‘mock’ project’ as a group.  You will need to discuss and answer these questions on your group wiki/blog/webpage.

The Project

1.     What area of study did you choose?  Why?

- Why are we looking for oil rather than alternatives oil?

- The topic sounded very interesting but yet again, we were too lazy to think of another topic to focus on.

2.     What did your groups hope to achieve?  What was your proposed outcome?

- Wanted to show awareness that peak oil is important to our lives.

- We wanted to create an advertisement and a documentary showing why people were not looking for alternatives rather than digging for more oil and how disastrous this issue can be to the society.

3.     How could you critically evaluate the success of your outcome?

- As a group, we can honestly say we did not create an outcome. So preferably speaking, the success of our outcome was a failure due to the fact we had lack of information, concentration and interest in the topic.

4.     What were your specific group roles and responsibilities?  How did you organise this?  Was the allocation effective?

- Stephanie's the leader when it comes to organization, whip cracking and giving out work as well as rewarding and encouraging us

- Adam's the leader when it came to the technical work and documents, what we should do, what we should add, how we should do it

- Maxwell's the leader when it comes to the times where everyone's feeling down, and when help is needed the most to raise the spirits of the young offsprings.

- The roles were quite vague due to the fact, yet again, we weren’t so interested into the topic, we didn’t give much thought about it. But then again, the roles were quite effective since we actually somewhat did work that we initially planned to do.

5.     Did your project have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work?  How could you improve this?

- Yes, we did have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work. There were so few members in the group, it might have had some disadvantages when it comes to the efficiency of our work. On the other hand, quoted by Maxwell, “it relaly magnifies our strength, weaknesses, and our determination as well as commitment.”

- We can improve this by doing our work more effectively, more commitment and better responsibilities for our own specific roles.

6.     Was the workload manageable in the time frame given?

- The workload was manageable in the time frame given.

- If we had been more hardworking, took more initiatives, and to focus more occasionally rather than slacking around, then yes.

7.     How effective were your minutes and agendas?  How did they help you?  How could you improve them?

- The agenda shows us what we’ve been doing over the weeks to indicate how hard we’ve been working, as hard as before, or even harder. It is sort of like a journal that allows us to keep track with the activities we’ve done.

- We’ve created one minute throughout the whole project. The minute was posted up on Stephanie’s bog and it was helpful because we occasionally look back to that post and see on what we had to work on.

- So far, we have updated our agendas according to every single meeting so there is not much improvement for this.

The Perspectives

1.     How did you gather information and opinions/viewpoints from a personal, national/local and global perspective?

- We gathered all the information through research.

2.     How did/ could you ensure you consider all these perspectives in your project?

- create a checklist and check it often so we know what we have to accomplish before the deadline.

3.     Would your outcome need to be accompanied by some additional explanation or elaboration?

- Preferably not. Because we would be stating almost everything into the documentary and advertisement. If we add more information, we might confuse the audience even further.

4.     How could you make sure you include cross-cultural views?

- Ask opinions (surveys) around the school who are foreigners.

- Get in contact with schools in foreign countries.

GROUP STORY

In this life-changing yet intriguing mock group project, our Global Perspective teachers set us a certain area of study, which was a project relating to Peak Oil. With that Adam, Stephanie and Maxwell were all set to face the difficult challenges we were about to encounter. Although we went as determine learners, we were finished off with disasters and tragedies’ inflicted upon us. At first, there were four of us, including Hong Yi. Very much unfortunate for us Hong Yi had to join the learners’ aid for Global Perspective class, which will eventually train and prepare him for the challenges we were about to face. He wasn’t ready for this, and understandingly we agreed that the best way to love him is to set let him go, leaving us with a man down, someone less a limb, a Templar without his sword, a shark without it’s jaws. Hong Yi’s departure left us with a sour taste between our taste buds, but we all knew that not everything will go the way we wanted. We just had to bear with it.

The Peak Oil project seemed interestingly mind blogging to us when Ms. Gita, a living legend, first introduced it to us. It seemed like an issue that we will have to face someday, an issue that can be the end of us all. Peak oil is a time where the production of oil reaches it’s very peak, and can only reduce. It is a time where all of us have finally realized what we have now, what we use during our needless and overrated daily activities, what we most depend on, what brings us to school and made the world so much smaller, was finally coming to an end.

Of course every normal kid like the three of us would be very much bothered by the thought of ‘not using the Internet’ or ‘not being able to turn the air-conditioning on’. Who wouldn’t?