When we were first told that we were supposed to prepare an oral assignment in groups tackling the topic on Skills it seemed to me really challenging. Some feeling of anxiety aroused in me, especially because I knew that it would imply a lot of conscientious reading, presenting the information in an interactive class and coordinating the work as a group.After having read all the information provided and becoming very familiar with this material, I wanted to apply what I had learnt in class about summarizing. That is why I started to select the most important information, and I divided the chapters into different sections or sub-topics. Then I started to establish various connections within the two chapters and designed a list of topics and sub-topics writing the number of page and paragraph in which each of them were discussed. All this required a great amount of time throughout some days; however, I considered that doing this was not enough, and I felt the need to go deeper in my investigation on the topic. This finally led me to resort to other works written by the authors mentioned in the assigned bibliography.
Once the information was clear in my mind I faced the second difficulty: how to present all the material in a precise, simple and attractive way. Consequently, I started to think about what the intended audience might already know about the topic, and I drafted different introductions. And that was how I came with the idea of using videos related to the topic. And finally all that was left was to get together with my classmates, share ideas and organize the presentation; although I must say that we should have tried to meet some time before.
However, after having devoted so much time reading, doing additional research, establishing comparisons, preparing, organizing and looking for ideas, when the moment came to present all that I had prepared, I totally failed. I was very disappointed, but I was proud of my group mates because they could perform really well.
Looking at all this process in retrospective, I think that I could actually profit a lot from this assignment because the degree of challenge was the appropriate one. I consider that I got so embedded in the material that my learning was truly meaningful. I also benefited from the other groups presentations since they made us actively participate in their presentations. In conclusion, I think that this type of activities are very useful, and I wish I can perform better next time.
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