Portfolio #2 : Jane McGonigal (Extra)

1- Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

• Jane McGonigal is designer game from 10 years.
• Her goal is to make it easy to save the real world as it easy to save the virtual world in online game
• USA gamer would spend 10.000 hours gaming by the time he reach 21 years
• Invest 3 billion hours weekly playing online games, but she trying to increase that to 21 billion hours
•  She creates games that use mobile and digital technologies
• Players spent 5.9 million years to achieve the azure quest
• Her goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
• 500 million people who are extraordinarily good at something.
• Gamer have no problem playing a game for 22 hours if they are good at which is better than sitting or laying down

• She made 3 games (World without oil, Super Struck and Evoke).

2-Jane McGonigal:The game that can give you 10 extra years of live.

How to increase the live span of each individual by 7.5minates?

How to spend those extra minutes in your life?

Top five regret of the dead?

1.  I wish i have worked so hard.
2.  I wish stay in touch with family and friends.
3.  I wish to live my life happily.
4.  I wish experience my true self.
5.  I wish live my true dreams.

Playing games and specially Avatars games make us more creative, emptions and it manage our life.

Top 5 things that will boost your happy life?

• My priority change I’m not afraid to do what make me happy.
• I feel close to my family and friends
• I understand my self-betters.
• I have new meaning to my life.
• I am able to focus on my dreams and goals.

Four type of games that gives you 10 extra years of life:

1. Physical
2. Mental
3. Emotional
4. Social

The upper four activities increase the life span of each individual by 7.5 minutes.

How to spend those 7.5minetes by doing more exercise to gain more bonus life until you achieve the 10 extra years which will give you more times to play more games.

Portfolio #9: Final Reflection – (last video: outro)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5twpCJk5MnIT1BrQTZkSWZPREk/edit?usp=sharing

Portfolio #8:  Meeting Minutes:

ADMC LSEC 1503 Meeting Assessment – Minutes

Section: CMN

 

Meeting Date: Sunday, November 25^th, 2013

Meeting Time: 3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

Venue: W104

 

Group Members Roles:

Chair: Ibrahim Al Zaabi

Minutes Taker: Abeer Al Marzoqi

Group Member: Husain Al Hashmi

 

Minutes

1 Welcome, Apologies (Abeer), Minute taker

2 Ibrahim (Chair): Current Treachery situation in ADMC

3 Ibrahim (Chair): going through agenda in order

4 ADMC building entrance problems:

·         Ibrahim identified the problem of one entrance not enough

·         Husain Raised the issue of the main entrance is very small

5 ADMC building entrance solutions:

·         Ibrahim suggested a second entrance for ladies

·         Husain suggested that we make ADMC entrances bigger

6 ADMC Classes Problems:

·         Ibrahim identified the class crowded issue

·         Husain identified the seat scattered issue

7 ADMC Classes Solutions:

·         Ibrahim came up with a solution of making a limit of female/male students in each class

·         Husain put forward the idea of splitting the class into two sides, each gender on a side

 

 

 

8 ADMC Cafeteria problems:

·         Ibrahim raised the issue of no dedicated place in cafeteria for ladies

9 ADMC Cafeteria Solutions:

·         Husain suggested to make a partition in the corner for lades to have more comfort

 

 

10 ADMC students’ families Problems

·         Hussain identified the problem that families would refuse the idea of co-treachery

11 ADMC students Families Solution:

·         Ibrahim suggested  the making of a survey sheet and distribute it collect data

·         Action item: Husain will make the sheet and collect it for analysis by student council

 

12 Recommendations:

                Report should be presented to Student Council Mr Abdullah Mohamed for action

 

13 Date of next meeting Jan 5th, 2014 3:30 PM

Meeting closed at 3:45 PM

Portfolio #8:  Meeting Agenda:

LSEC N307                  Meeting Assessment - Agenda          Section: CMN

Date of meeting: 11/25/2013

Time of meeting: 3:30 pm to 3:45 pm

Venue: W104

Group members’ Roles:        

Chair:  Ibrahim Alzaabi

Minutes taker: Abeer Abdulla

Group members: Husain Alhashmi

 

 

 Venue preparation:

1.      Tables and chairs for 4 people

2.      Water for 4 on table

 

Topic: Co_Ed Tertiary Education 

Agenda: -need not be 6 points – could be 2-4!

1 Co_Ed Tertiary Education ( situation at the college ) (2 mintes)

2 Issue ( building , classes , facilities)  ( 5 mintes)

3 family acceptance  limits for Co_Ed tertiary Education ( 5 mintes)

4 Recommendation  ( 3 mintes)

 

Objective(s)/ Product: What you plan to accomplish / produce

+Action Points (if known):

This meeting is to look at the proposal to Co Ed Tertiary Education how to prepare a first of recommended academic atmosphere .

Portfolio #7:  Good / Bad meetings (Extra) :

Good Meeting:

1.    Members attend nobody absent or late.

2.    Start the meeting on time and end of time.

3.    The chair is the director of the meeting and ensures that the group sticks to its purposes.

4.    Having the Agenda and put time limits on each item.

5.    Share the information between all the members.

6.    Minutes taker has responsible to take the note and follow the meeting.

Bad Meeting:

1.    Member absent and late.

2.    Start the meeting late.

3.    Agenda is not complete.

4.    The chair cannot control the meeting.

5.    Points are not clear.

6.    Some members are not respect the meeting and make them self busy with phone and eating.

7.    Minutes taker ignore taking note in the meeting.

Portfolio #6: Listening Notes " Exercise(B)

LSEC N1503 – Video worksheet 4

How to conduct an effective meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSft2OeMmzQ

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

 1.     Don’t have a meeting unless clear purpose

a.    Set objectives – what’s the meeting for?

2.    Do you want decision    ,   action, or feedback?

What do you want to have achieve?

3.    Provide an agenda before the meeting.  People could be allocate topics to prepare beforehand to get them involved.

 And prioritize the list of what need to be done Keep the agenda short and make sure that every item ­­­­­has a clear purpose.

 4.    Set times for each topic and stick to them.  Close the  Discussion when the times up.

 5.    Start and end on time. Don’t wait around for people who are late. They assume that the meetings always start late. And don’t let the      meeting drag on after finish time.

6.    Capture action points. Make sure that every topic has been discussed, that everyone     is clear what needs to be done, and who’s going to do it.

 Circulate a summary after the meeting. If there are no   action points, then what was the Purpose of the meeting?

 

Portfolio #6: Listening Notes " Exercise (A)"

LSEC N1503 – Video worksheet 3

How to conduct an effective meeting

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoEFlAXuSjg&feature=PlayList&p=B95F0CA543CE3497&index=3&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

 

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

 

  1.     This video presentation is on Leading effective Meeting.

  2.    It is important to have  an agenda that lists the Items to cover.

  3.    During the meeting:

a.     Let people know what the agenda points are?

b.    How much Time will take?

c.    That there will be time on the schedule for questions and answers.

  4.    Someone should never leave a meeting and wonder What it was about and What was the purpose.

  5.    They should know what their next Step is.

  6. Always know what that meeting was about.

 Listening Notes #1

 

1.

 

Who: Haiyan Typhoon BBC News reports by Peter Bobbie.

 

What: 10,000 killed in Philippines.

 

Where: Philippine & Vietnam.

 

When: Vietnam Landfall late Sunday early Monday. 

 

 

 

Specific details:

 

Vietnam typhoon warning evacuates 600,000 peoples to shelters.

 

 

 

2.

 

Who: Dubai's International Motor show reports by Howard Johnson

 

What: Dubai International Motor show the latest car for most the car company

 

Where: Dubai International Motor Show.

 

When: From 5th  till 9th  of November.

 

Why: The rich people in the UAE and the Middle East, would like to have Special car with special  option.

 

How: By making special manufactures for the car.

 

Specific details:

 

-       In the Gulf it’s not unusual to see a Porsche, a Lamborghini or even a Bugatti because luxury cars are big business in the region.

 

-       In the UAE the largest number of Range Rover Sport than anywhere else in the world and it is best sellers.

 

-       Dubai police got Lamborghini Aventador as one of them police car group.

 

-       Rich people in UAE spent a lot of money just to get unique car.

 

 

 

3.

 

Who: Tensions flare over government 'land grabs' in China reports by Damian     Grammaticas.
What: land disputes between farmers and local government

 

Where: China, Yunnan province

 

Why: The local government wants the land to develop it. Because it is the way they earn income.

 

How: Framers have the right to use the land, but they don’t have the right to sell it or own it or borrow money against it and can’t profit from it.

 

 

 

 

 

Specific details:

 

-       Hundreds of millions of people can inject new energy in to China’s economy and can bring profound change.

      -       There are powerful forces working against change