Week Twelve

Today we presented our final posters.
It was very interesting to see what some of the other groups came up with.
Some of the other groups had thought through very good ideas while others didnt know what they were talking about.

Im not sure ill be able to remember all the different posters, but i will comment on the ones i do.

Alcohol lock - they had a very nice idea, not nz specific though. however they didnt develope their idea enough. it would be too easy to just bypass the lock. if it worked at all (the sensor is too far away from your breath, and if it had increased sensitivity it would pick up everyones breath.)

Long life laminates - not new and inovative. was there idea 'the laminate', because there is nothing new about it, or using the solar panels to power the boat (also not new). they also didnt think their idea though enough, was the gel coat blocking the light like they said? which wud just make the solar panels useless! or letting the light though and just protecting the panels from the weather. which would make more sense. the specifics were not fully described in their poster.

burnout paradise - i dont really know what they were trying to do, besides create a place to mess around and just have fun. it is in no way eco friendly.

water powered car - i think the only reason their final product had water in is is because they said they were gonna make a water powered car. if they remove the water and just power the motors straight from the solar panels they would loose much less energy. they really didnt seem to know what they were talking about... compressing water...

air powered car - this was not a bad idea, the only thing they might have trouble with is making enough space to store enough compressed air.

e-cat - this is probably one of the better ideas/posters. Im not sure their calculations are correct because only the first few minutes will be affected by their pre heating, once the engine is heated their product is no longer in use. not a bad idea though.

beanstalk - this is very much impractical. the technology for this will only be available in the next 10-20 years. they mostly know what they were talking about in their final presentation and they had a nice poster! im not sure exactaly why they specificaly have to aim the projectiles at the sun, if they just shoot it out into space it will keep going away from earth, its good enough for us.

crc (fibreglass recycling, our poster) - we didnt have many questions, this could mean 2 things; it way very easy to understand, or no one cared. i hope it was the former. aparently we spoke well answering our few questions. i know we didnt get totally confused by any of the questions which was good. we did try to keep our poster simple and to the point, i think it did work...

Week 11

Last week we didnt make a presentation.
We just worked on our posters.

This week we did a presentation on maori culture.
because it is the due date of our assessment we didnt have a full class.
there was only one other group in our class who did any presenting besides us.

Week Nine

Today we had a scenario that we were supposed to solve the problem by giving multiple answers about ethics.

aparently our code of ethics was too vague, but i think writing more is not always the best solution. our code could be applied to practically any situation. i didnt want to go into great detail because it would have just taken up space and not provided any more info. next week we are going to look at some past posters to get an understanding of what is expected of ours, that will be handy.

In looking for a trade related article to write on i think i will look for idea that is being presented.

Week 8

Today we are presenting on customer service and the importance of it.
I was very disappointing in my assessment result, but I realized that I didn't put in as much effort as I should have. For the next assessment I will try to put more effort.

I received feedback on my rating of this course via email, and explained some of my complaints.
I am still disapointed in the lack of teaching the lecturers are doing, even the amount of feedback we get form our presentations is minimal.

I hope this will improve in future...

Week 7

Last week (first week back from break) we didnt have our H&S class due to a public holiday.

So this week we are doing a presentation on sustainability, and how our company is going to be sustainable.
I find it rather difficult because i have never had to consider sustainability in terms of a company issue.
I dont know if i fully understand the drill down template, because to me it doesnt really fit into our presentation in all cases.
it seems like a very broad template that can be used in all sorts of different situations, however it wont work perfectly for any of them.

the lecture today was alright. however i dont really agree with everything that was said. (i wont go into details)

other than that, i look forward to getting my assignment one results back.

Week Six

The last week before the mid semester break.

Nothing particularly exiting happened today.
Instead of going to the 'booked' computer lab (that we have been kicked out of twice already) we just went straight to the open computer lab and did our research and made our presentation there.
It is very convenient having a memory stick now, I can just stick it into the computer, copy our presentation across, and I don't have to worry about finding it on the H drive or logging into my email and emailing it to myself.

One other thing mention-able was that John was sick, so he didn't come to uni today, which left us with only four people in our group, but it was no inconvenience.

Week Five

First of all we were kicked out of the computer lab that was booked for us, which was very annoying because we had to go off and find another computer to work on. However before that we managed to sort out why the lecturers were unable to view my blog. For some weird reason when they clicked on my profile it would not show my links (blogs), it only showed the blogs i was following. I solved the problem by just following my own blog so they can now view it with no problems.

The presentation was alright, once again we didnt have any time available after we finished making the power point to practice it, however we presented it reasonably well anyway.