Library System

31.07.2012

Library System

Today we had a lecture from invited guest who is Ms. Lilamani Amerasekera, the librarian of the APIIT Sri Lanka. She conducted a lecture, all about the APIIT library. Following are the main topics which we discussed today.

• Aims.
• Scope.
• Online resources and other resources.
• APIIT email account.
• E library facilities.
• Library services.

Aims.

• Develop core materials for all subjects. (Print and non-print)
• Support teaching and research activities.

Scope.

• Library OPEC.
• Accessing online resources using Athens login details.
• Other useful resources.
• Useful web portals.
• Library services.
• Termination of library membership.
• Feedback.

Resources Available.

These are the resources available in the APIIT library.

• Books on IT, Business and Law.
• Periodicals / Magazines.
• CD's
• Online Resources.

Accessing Online Resources.

These were the steps that APIIT student can activates their Windows live email account.

• Payments of Staffordshire University registration fee.
• Activate APIIT email account in Windows live.

               ex: cb003737@students.apiit.lk

• Athens password will be sent by staffordshire university to your APIIT email account direct.

               ex: http://webspace.apiit.lk/index.jsp

Activate APIIT email Account.

• Visit to the http://login.live.com url.
• You may enter the respective user id and the password given below and you are free to change the password at the first login.
• User id: cbnumber@students.apiit.lk

              ex: cb003737@students.apiit.lk

• Password: stu388#un
• Once the account is activated please inform the library. (wathsala@apiit.lk).

E - Libraries.

• Students can login to the APIIT online library system using hhtp:..webspace.apiit.lk
• IEEE - Computing.
• ACM - Business and computing.
• Staffordshire online library.

      ex: http://ap6.auth.athensams.net/my/?ct=611481bf-92050c21-402bf4080fd204b2de75b564e3d0ca3d

• E - articles using inter library loan facilities.

Other Useful Resources.

• E - books collection (\\Fileserver\E-books)
• Final year students theses.
• Index to magazine content pages.
• Collection of E-version of the newspapers clippings / periodicals linked to the fileserver.
• Provide government web portals: http://www.gov.lk/

          - Access to bank web portals.

                 ex: Central Bank of Sri Lanka.                       DFCC.

                       Bank of Ceylon.                                      HSBC.

                       National Savings Bank.                           Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC. 

                       Peoples Bank.                                         Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka Limited.

                       National Development Bank.                   Seylan Bank.

                       Hatton National Bank.                             Union Bank.

          - Access to trade organizations and chambers of commerce.

                 ex: Colombo Stock Exchange.

                      The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

                      Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association.

                      National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka.

                      Women's Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

                      Institute for the Development of Commercial Law and Practices.

                      Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka.

• Access to other web portals.

               ex: Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka.

                    Board of Investment of Sri Lanka.

                    UCER:UOC e-Repository >: Home - University of Colombo.

Library Services.

• High demand books.

• Scan on demand service.

                 - On lecturers’ request scanning the relevant chapters only.

                 - Those copies are  available in the fileserver taking into consideration the copyright law as well.

• Growing e book collection on recommended and addl. Reading uploaded to the fileserver.

• Around 3,000 research articles linked to the online catalogue.

• Introduction of a general collection of self-help books in both city campus and law libraries.

• Literature searches are carried out by the library staff  for students.

• Selective dissemination of information service is provided.

                 - This is to regularly alert users to new information on their chosen topics.

• Group/individual sessions are conducted to educate students using online resources.

• Articles relating to “Building Your Personality” could be found in webspace.

• Electronic publication relating to Sri Lanka legislative enactments and law reports (the advanced and updated version of the e-law software package) could be found at at library.

• Network with other local libraries viz. Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Bank of Ceylon, Institute of Policy Studies, University Libraries - Peradeniya, Sri Jayawardenapura, Moratuwa, Open, District Court Library, Law College Library, Judge’s Library, Social Scientist Association, SLFI Library etc.

• Colombo University Electronic Resource Repository and other useful web portals viz. Govt. Depts., Banks, Trade Organisations and Chambers of Commerce. BOI and Institute of Policy Studies have been linked to webspace.

• Established links with a few bookshops and have obtained exclusive discounted rates for APIIT students.

                 - Sarasavi Book Shop.

• Assistance is provided to purchase personal copies of recommended texts that are not available locally.

                 - Provided students make the full payment in advance.

• Students and staff directed to sources of information and also to other libraries for their research work with an introductory letter.

Termination of Library Membership.

• You can request for termination.

                 - This can be after completion of level 3 or

                 - If you are dropping out of the course.

• If you want to terminate your account, make sure that you

                 - Get the library membership termination from the library.

                 - You must settle all your dues before handing over the completed termination form to the library.

• Deposite will be refunded when final results are released.

• No termination process is allowed to be done on behalf of a friend unless there is a letter of authorization.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Understanding about the APIIT Library system.

Personal Opinion.

Gain a lot of information about aims. objectives, scope and available resources about the APIIT library system. As well as how to get the online resources, how to activate APIIT email address, e-library services and how to terminate library membership.

Personality Test - Part II

26.07.2012

Personality Test - Part II

This is the second lecture of the topic of Personality Test. Lecturer gave us a group activity to do. According to that students were divided in seven groups. Each group had four members. One student should appointed as a observer. Lecturer talked to all the observers to come out from the class and they had some discussion. After that observers changed their groups. They went to different different groups. The scenario was we met with an flight accident. The plane landed to bear land also we can carry out six items only. This was the way we organized things in our group.
Nadeesha went out from the groups and Janith came it to as a observer. Observer didn't talk anything with members. He used to silent and listening what we were doing. His observation was identify the characters in the group. We decided to carry out following items.

• Chocolates and snacks.
• An Axe.
• Liter.
• Tent.
• Medicine.
• Water.

According to Janith's observation these were the characteristics he identified from each member of the group.

• Leader of the group - Bhagya.
• An idea person - Bhagya and Judith.
• Workers - Bhagya, Judith and Sanduni.
• Criticizers - Jusith and Sanduni.
• Silent person - Sanduni.
• A team builder -  Bhagya, Judith and Sanduni.

The purpose of this lecturer was to identify the characteristics of each person when they work as a team.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Identify the people's roles when they were work as a team.

Personal Opinion

The activity was really fun and interesting. Identify the role players in the group. The activity was interesting.

Personality Test - Part I

26.07.2012

Personality Test - Part I

At the beginning of the lecture, lecturer conducted a Fun Personality Test including few questions to answer. Following are the questions and answer for the each question.

Fun Personality Test.

Q1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

       Answer: Open the refrigerator and put it.

Q2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

       Answer: Take out the giraffe from the refrigerator and put elephant into it.

Q3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend, except one. Which animal does not attend?
        Answer: Elephant, because it's in the refrigerator.

Q4. There is a river you must cross, but it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?
        Answer: All the animals are attempt to the animal conference. So it's easy to cross the river.

Learning gain of the activity.

Q1. Don't over think small things in complicated ways.

Q2. Understand the repercussions of your actions.

Q3. Test your memory. Identify what we did in the past.

Q4. Learn from our mistakes.

This activity is unique in each and every individual. This personality test helps to identify about your personality.

Personality Types.

According to John Holland, there are six personality types.

• Conventional

           - This kind of people can only do structural work.

           - They can not change the structure.

           - Conventional people like to work with numbers, records, machines with set of ordinary way.

           - Generally avoids ambiguous and unstructured activities.

                 ex: If organizations change the work procedure, it is hard to change employees work procedure according to the new system. Because it is good at working with written records and numbers in a systematic ordinary way.

                        Previously government organizations used Window operating system in their computer work, when it changed to Linux operating system it was somewhat hard to employees.

• Realistic

           - Likes to work with animals, tools or machines.

           - Generally avoid social activities like teaching, hearing and informing others.

           - These people are very practical.

         - Specially has good skills in work with tools, mechanical and electrical drawings, machines or plan and animals.

           - They values in practical ways.

                    ex: Electric engineers.

                         Carpenters.

• Investigation

          - Do not like to act with machines.

          - They would want to talk with people.

          - They like social works.

                   ex: Social scientists.

          - They would love to involved to social problems.

                   ex: Global warming.
                         Imagine there was a dengue fever all among the area. It may be a pandemic (widely spread) cause. This happens because of the stagnant water. This cause because of the litter. When we think about why people litter. These are the things why people litter.
                            - There aren't public garbage places.
                            - There aren't any laws and current laws are not working properly.
                            - No garbage bins.
                            - People are careless about environment.
                            - People aren't aware of consequences.
                            - People don't have practices to collect garbage.
                            - People aren't educated properly.
                         There are people who come up with the solutions, but they don't have persuading power to do that.

• Artistic

          - People who believe in self impression.

          - They see things in difficult, novelty way.

          - They likes to do creative activities such as art, drama, crafts, dancing, music and creative writing. 

• Social

          - They are volunteers. Also humain.

          - They likes to social work with other.

          - Generally stick away from machines.

          - They value helping other.

• Enterprising

          - These people like to take risks.

          - They good at persuading, tricking people.

          - They are successful in leadership and business.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Today we learnt about what were the types of personality. Depth idea about those personality types.

Personal Opinion

Today s lecture was very interesting. It was fun with doing the personality fun test. According to those four questions I learnt what my problems in thinking.

Ethical Analysis

24.07.2012

Ethical Analysis

Today we continue the previous days' lecture on Ethics. There are two main parts in ethical analysis.

• First we identify the stake holders involved in the ethical issues and fact that pertaining to the information technology issues.
• Secondly we discussed about what exactly happens to the those information technology issues.

It describes in four ways.

1. Conflicts - This can be happen in among two or more than two people. Lecturer explain it in this way.

                        ex: Imagine that Sahan is taking pen from Thaiyaba's bag with out knowing her. It is unethical    to take anything from someones bag. This can be a conflict to Thaiyaba.

     2.  Dilemma - According to Sahan's example we can not say that taking something from someone's bag is                     good or bad thing either they are friends.

    3.  Direct involves - Check who was the directly involved people to the situation. Who effected by that   incident.

    4.  Alternatives - We can select the different alternatives. It effects to all in the organization, because of the sequences of this incident. It is a win win situation to bath parties.

                             ex: We can warn to Sahan not to take anything from others with out knowing that person.

Business Ethics.

Business ethics are the study of business situations, activities and decisions where issues of right and wrong are addressed.

                      ex: A well-known pharmaceutical company caused with ethical issue. They distribute a anti depressants drug which suitable for adults. They didn't analyze it for children but they advertised it for both children and adults. That company going with an unethical practice.
                               Elephant House used to put their garbage in to Bere lake. It also a unethical incident.

According to those two examples that we can identify what the businesses are doing right or wrong thing.

Because of these unethical practices customers would face many difficulties. To avoid these unethical practices people establishes consumer protected agencies to protect them from businesses organizations.

Characteristics of Business Ethics.

Characteristics of business ethics are what they should do and how it will give the guild lines that need to follow. There are two characteristics in business ethics.

• Tells people what they ought to do.
• Set of principles or rules.

Ethics comes with social responsibilities. It is a win win situation.

Concepts of Business Ethics.

These concepts are developed by moral philosophers over generations. Also these concepts are distinguish ethical from unethical behaviors. Given below concept has problems.

• Relativism

           - There is no human standards. Because actions should be justifiable.

           - It depends on society to society.

           - Ethics are relative with morality.

                      ex: Some people in Africa who eats cannibals. They believe that it is justifiable for them but it won't for other societies.

• Egoism

           - One person should act as that person's set of personal interests.

           - Egoism believes that self interests are should not against laws.

           - Ethical behaviors are promotes person's own self interests.

                         ex:  Drive fast.

                               Do not ware seat belts.

• Utilitarianism

           - This action could be ethical or not.
           - The morality of the action can be determine by its consequences.
           - That action is ethical if it promotes the greatest good for the greatest amount.
                     ex: Harry Truman decided to drop the bomb to Hiroshima.
        - Although this action was unethical consequences was good because if this not happened the 2nd world war will still continue.

• Deontologism

           - Actions are not justified by their consequences.
           - Factors other than good outcomes determine the rightness of action.
                         ex: Killing a murderer.

There are different between utilitarianism and deontologism. Utilitarianism ends with justifying the means and deontologism means which are important.

General Ethical Behavior.

• Builds security.
• Friendliness.
• Cooperation and trust in a society.

Ethical Tests.

1. Is it Ethical?

          i Ethical - Legal

         ii Ethical - Illegal

        iii Unethical - Legal

        iv Unethical - Illegal

i and iv are easy to do.

iv and iii are difficult to do.

     2.   Benefit Cost Test

           - Benefits exceed to cover the costs.

                   ex: According to the nuclear bomb, United Status government costs for it. But benefits are more that costs.

The action can be justifiable.

     3.   Light of Day Test.

           - What would happen if your reaction were bought into the public.

                   ex: Imagine that you were organized a party in your home. If something unethical thing happened in your home premises. When it is goes to public, other people will react it as a wrong thing. Because public will think it as a unethical thing, but to you it is a okay for you.

     4.   Do Unto Others Test.

           - If something good happened to you then it is ethical.

     5.   Ventilation Test.
           - Something happens , seeks out from others views.

After discussing all of these ethical tests, lecturer gave us to following incidents to choose the each incident.

• Robbing a bank.
• Driving above the speed limit.
• Cheating on an exam.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Got to know about what was ethical analysis, business ethics, characteristics of business ethics, concepts of business ethics, what are the tests that do for check the ethical issues.

Personal Opinion

It is really good for knowing all the following topics. Identify how to categorize ethical issues.

Ethics & Codes of Conduct

23.07.2012

Ethics & Codes of Conduct

Today we discussed about the foundation of the Ethics.

What is Ethics?

Basically ethics are good practices, what we follow, something which we really do like guidelines. Also it is a moral values which all people are considers. It points society to balance.

Ethics consists with two points, which are religion and low.

• Religion - It is a program like a software. It teachers you how you are associated with people. These are the things that you should do and what basically you should not do. It covers the certain spectrum. Also it is like a guild lines.
• Low - Low covers the remaining spectrum of the ethics.

That remaining ethics are what we think is good. It depends on person to person, country to country, region to region.

             ex: Public affection.

                  Look after you parents.

Also ethics are tend to revert generation to generation.

        ex: Now a days smoking is prohibited in public places in Sri Lanka. It is unethical when some        smoke in public. Also there is a low to act that people who smoke in public.

How does IT create ethical problems?

From the revaluation of the open economy there are lots of good and bad things came to Sri Lanka. When we are talking about the Information Technology it changes day by day.

             ex: People get spoils - Children get spoiled because of the pornography.

               Some websites are tracking users all movements and sell it to other organisations - That is why  people get lot of spam emails from unknown users.

When we are talking about ethics there are three types of eyes which we should identify.

• What others think about of myself.
• What I think about myself.
• What I am really am, actual person.

So someone (It can be a person or software or expert system) somewhere in the internet really know about who I am.

Types of Privacy.

We discussed about privacy of solitude, means that information privacy put in a physical location. It also called as Inter mercy related to Information. There are many levels of  inter mercy and information. As a example we'll see it based on the relationships.

• Friends to friends
• Partner to partner
• Husband & wife

Among these classifications of groups we can understand what kind of relationship they have each other. Two or more friends relationship is some what close to each other. Partners relationship will be close relationship than friends relationship. Husband and wife relationship will most close relationship than other two parties.

Finally, Ethics are moral values to guide someone's life acting as a decision maker to highlight what is right and what is wrong.

Basic Concepts of Ethics.

• Responsibility - Person who is acting ethically is more responsible because finally it is an accountability.

• Accountability - If something goes wrong that person should get the responsible for that, means that responsible person have to bear the consequences.

                               ex: Class monitor has to take the whole responsibility of the class, if something happens.

• Liability

At the end of the lecture we discussed about how to handle the ethical situations. Lecturer divided the class in to two groups and each group should act a role play of ethical problem at APIIT.

One group act a role play about students don't like to wear official clothes to APIIT, the other group act a role play about having relationship at APIIT.

Learning gain of the Lecture & Personal Opinion

Learnt about basic ideas and concepts of the ethics. Get to know how IT creates ethical problems to society. We had fun of making role plays in ethical situations at APIIT.

Priorities Work

19.07.2012

Today we discussed about the second part of the Time Management.

Priorities Work.

There are three ways that we can priorities our work.

• Spent 75% of time to do MUST to do work. This is a really important work in the students life. Lecturer identify that we should spent a very huge time to do our additional reading and work. According to our time log which we discussed in previous lecture necessary work were come under this category.

• Spent 20% of time to do SHOULD to do work. According to time log this is the appropriate work we should do after the necessary work.

• Spent 5% of time to do what you LIKE to do work. This is the lesser work we should do in our daily life. This work should do if it's efficient to our life.

Pareto Principle - The 80-20 Rule

This is the concept founded by Italian economist Vilferdo Pareto in 1906. He identified that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth in his country as reported on About.com 2012. According to that theory in Time Management we can gain that 20% of effort we put in our work can afford 80% of good result.

Then we create a energy circle according to out time log which did on previous day.

Time Wasters.

Self generated and environment issues are the two ways that people waste their time.

Self Generated Issues

• Disorganization - ex: Think that you put your books and other stationary all over the study table. So it's hard you to find a book immediately. This is the disorganization.

• Procrastination - ex: You are going to computer lab to do some task. But you couldn't able to concentrate on work what you are doing. You may interested to check emails, visit to Facebook or listening to music.

• Inability to say No - ex: Your best friend asked you to go shopping with you. If you don't like to go with your friend but you couldn't able to say 'No'.

• Lack of Interest - ex: You have to submit a assignment in next week, but you don't have any interest to complete it quickly and correctly until the last moment.

• Unnecessary Perfectionism - When you are doing in a assignment you want everything to be perfect. You don't like to miss the parts which are difficult to handle. So you don't submit it until you create a perfect document, because of this unnecessary perfectionism you may delay the submission.

• Burn Out - Can not focus on attention or out of effort.

Environment Issue

• Visitors - ex: When visitors come to your home during exam time, you should be able to stay in the room and study.

• Telephone calls - You should avoid unnecessary telephone calls during your study hours.

• Emails and Junk Emails - Don't spent too much time for check emails and junk emails. Avoid unnecessary email.

• Meetings - ex: Waiting for someone.

• Crises - Unavoidable circumstances. ex: Power cuts.

To save your valuable time you should avoid all these self generated and environmental issues.

After this lecturer guided us to do a brain test. Given below is the result of that brain text.

Visual Image of How Brain Works

Description 1

Description 2

Learning gain of the Lecture

Today I learnt How to create an energy circle according to the time log I made before, how to divide work according to must to do work, should to do work and like to do work. Also what are the time wasters and knowing that time wasters how do we avoid those waste times.

Personal Opinion

Create an energy circle of my daily work. Identified what are the ways that I waste my time. Brain test really helps to identify what kind of a brain which I have.

Goals

17.07.2012

Goals

      Types of goals.

      Mainly there are three types of goals.

•       Long term goals
•       Medium term goals
•       Long term goals

      Goals must be 'SMART'

      

     Every goal must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. Then identify long term goals, medium term goals and long term goals and whether those goals are according to specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely. Also lecturer asked from individual students what were their long term, medium term and long term goals. According to the previous days' lecture these are my short term goals and long term goals.

      Short term goals.

            1.      Get a first class degree award.

            2.      Get an ‘A’ for ARMPD module.

            3.      Get good results to exams.

            4.      Improve the learning skills I use daily in my work.

            5.      Work in a business IT position as sports, business or fashion design industry.

     

      Long term goals.

            1.      Do the masters degree.

            2.      Establish my own company.

            3.      Gain revenue from the company.

            4.      Getting married.

            5.      Become a perfect wife and mother.

     

      Categories of Goals.

      Here are the categories of goals and examples of each goal.

      1. Artistic goals - ex: Playing a musical instrument.
            2. Attitude goals - Set a mind set right.
                                  ex: People have everything but they don't like to share it with anyone.
            3. Career goals - Identify the career goal you want to go to.
                                 ex: In future I want to become a System Administrator.
            4. Educational goals - What is the new thing that you want to study in future.
                                        ex: Learn Spanish.
            5. Family goals - What are the improvements in your family life.
                                 ex: Getting married.

      Categories of Objectives.

      1. Financial objective - Should have sufficient money to afford.
            2. Physical objective - ex: Getting with in next three months, always be healthy.
            3. Pleasure - How do you enjoy your life.
                           ex: Go for a picnic or tour, organize a party.
            4. Public service / Spiritual goals - How much social work would you like to attend to.
                                                           ex: Clean the environment.

      After we identify the goals and objectives we should prioritize it to full fill.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Learnt about SMART. How see goals through SMART. Identify what are my long term, medium term and long term goals. Also get to know about the categories of the goals and difference of each goal and objectives of each goal.

Personal Opinion

      It is really good to identify what are my goals and I encourage to achieving those goals in my life. I newly learnt about categories of goals and its' objectives. I dedicated that one day I will identify achieve my goals.

Time Management

16.07.2012

Lecturer checked the homework which he gave us to do on previous day. According to that all five groups come in front of the class and displayed their work. After that we started to talk about time management.

Time Management

Lecturer discussed about what is time management. As noted by Peter Drucker time is totally inelastic, perishable and cannot be replaced. Also time management is helps to manage our time effectively. We discussed about how we manage our time. We can manage our time in many ways. Following are some examples about how to manage time properly.

• Tackle the most difficult tasks early in the morning.
• Use to do lists, diaries, wall planners and electronic organizers.
• Say no if you are asked to do something or go somewhere.
• Ask why if you are invited to a meeting.
• Give priority to matters which are urgent rather than those which are important.
•  Priorities tasks and work in that order.
• Tackle tasks one at a time, or multi-task.
• Accept no unscheduled interruptions.
• Delegate where possible.
• Work in a place where you will not be disturbed.

   
     Then as homework lecturer asked us to identify our short term goals and long term goals. Also create a  time log of our daily work. Short term goals calculate within one to three years and long term goals calculate within ten to fifteen years.

Time Log

In time log there are mainly four columns which are time, activity, comment for the activity and analyse the work according to the weather that activity is necessary, appropriate and efficient. This time log really helps to prioritized our work.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Identify how to mange time properly. Maintain the time log and prioritize the work. Identify personal goals. Also work effectively.

Personal Opinion

     This lecture was really important to me because I identify what were the ways which I waste my time. When I used to create a time log, it really helps me to maintain the time and do the work effectively. Lecturer asked us to list down our short term and long term goals, it actually helps me to highlight what my goals were and start work to achieve those goals.

Mind Maps

12.07.2012

Mind Maps

Today was the third day of the ARMPD lecture. We discussed about the Mind Maps.

Mind Map is a graphical technique for visualizing connections between several ideas or pieces of information. It is a visual thinking tool that helps to structural information to kinesthetic learners. It helps to summarizing. Also it great for visual learners. Mind map also used in Walter Pauk's, Cornell Note Taking System.

According to the kinesthetic learning there are four types of people.

• Visual learners - People who has ideas, data and information associated with images and techniques
• Auditory  learners  - People who learns through listening
• Reading or writing learners
• Kinesthetic  learners -  People who do physical activities

Mind maps can be used according to tree structures and hierarchical structure.

                                                                    Tree structure

                                                            Hierarchical structure

We can use mind maps to generate, visualize, structure, classify ideas, an aid of studying, organizing information, solving problems, and make decisions to summarizing information and consolidating information from different research sources.

Finally lecturer gave us homework to create a mind map of systems.

Learning gain of the Lecture

From this lecture I came to know about mind map and what are the purposes of mind map, also how to use mind map.

Personal Opinion

This lesson is help me how to summarize information and make proper short notes. We can create mind maps with any kind of pictures, shapes and colors.

Introduction

10.07.2012

Today is the second day of our ARMPD (Applied Research Methods Professional Development) lecture. The lecturer in charge of this module is Mr. Eranjan Padumadasa. Lecturer divided the whole class in to five groups and each group consisted in to six members. Students named their groups as super six, furious seven and mine the princess and brat.

These are the tasks given by lecturer.

• Create a name for the group. The group name should be meaningful and creative.
• Design a logo to a group.
• Brief introduction about the person who sit next to each student.

According to the tasks which given by lecturer students were create a name, logo. Also each group come in front of the class and introduced about their friend. In the introduction of the friends we include the basic information about the each person such as their name, age, school, favorite foods, drinks, color, sport, admirable person and so on.

Learning gain of the Lecture

Today s activity was really interesting. Dividing student in to groups was such an interesting thing, because we learnt how to work in a group with different different people. Also students share their friends basic in information. It was a really good thing. Student used to know about their friends inner interests and so on.

Personal Opinion

This activity was really interesting. The person who next to me was Udith Nisakara. I got to about his basic information and interests. From creating a name for the group and logo build a relationship between all the group members. Now I feel that all the class are some way know about their friends.