Agenda

     Meeting Assessment - Agenda

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 Issue ( building , classes , facilities)

3 family acceptance  limits for Co_Ed tertiary Education

4 Recommendation

Listening Notes " Exercise#7

How to conduct an effective meeting

 

Exercise #7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

 

1.     Don’t have a meeting unless  purpose for the meeting.

 

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

 

2.    Do you want decisions, actions, and feedback. What do you want to achieve by end of it.

 

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

 

And prioritize the list of to do to prioritize be the people. Keep the agenda short and make sure that every items ­­­­­has a  purpose.

 

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

 

Discussion when the time 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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listening Notes " Exercise#6

How to conduct an effective meeting

Exercise #6

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

1.     This video presentation is on Effective Business Meeting

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

3.    During the meeting:

a.     Let people know What is the agenda points

b.    How much Time it needs or takes

c.    That there will be time on the schedule for Questions & Answers

4.    Someone should never leave a meeting and wonder About and purpose

5.    They should know what their next Steps

6.    Always know What is the meeting about

Listening Notes " Exercise#5

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Exercise #5

 

1. 

Who: Haiyan Typhoon BBC News (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:Tensions flare over government 'land grabs' in China(By Damian Grammaticas). 
What: Governments need the farmers land to develop.

Where: South west

Why: Farmers don’t have the rights to own or sales the lands in china only use it.

Specific details:

Farmers issue not in the agenda of the governments meeting

Presentation Assignment – Exercise #4 EXTRA

Exercise #4 EXTRA

(a)    What is shown on the second slide? 

what's the tips to be covered .

(b)   How many slides should you use a minute?

Use 1_2 slide per minutes of the presentation   

(c)    How many points should you have per slide?

Include 4_5 points per slide

Video game review - portfolio #3

 

 

Name: Abeer Abdulla

Name of Game : FarmVille

 

1.What is the objective of this game?

The objective of Farmville is to build a thriving and successful farm and attracting the gamers to manage this virtual farm by planting , growing and crops.

 

 

2.What genre does this game fall under?

Fun and very interactive.

 

3.How hard is this game?  Is it easy to learn how to play?

It's essay to play, beginning a farm, the player first creates a customizable avatar which may be changed at any point and the player begins with an empty farm and a fixed starting amount of farm coins.

 

 

4.Does it remain challenging as you advance?

 

yes , there are many Farmville levels so its depends on the plowing planting and harvesting the crops the farm will grows and develops leveling up 

 

 

 

5.What is your overall opinion of the game?  Why?

Personally its a funny game and time management because its allow the players users virtually to became farmers without actually doing real farm work and you have to plan when you're going to play it again

 

 

6.Evaluate the graphics.

Beautiful and attractive images and joyful at the same time

 

7.Evaluate the sound.

great and clear sound

 

8.Will this game hold up to repeated replaying?  Why / why not?

Yes, because it depends on the planting , selling and earn money only

 

9.How does this game compare to other games in the same genre?

The same in terms of fun and stages of the game

 

10.Give an overall rating for this game and explain why.

7 out of 10 because game allow the user to perform tasks that people do on day to day basis also its funny and interactive ..

 

Jane McGonigal notes " portfolio#2

 Jene Mcgonigal game designer from 10 years.

 Jane Mcgonigal goal to save the world in real life in online games.

The 3 billion hours of online gaming is not enough .

She want to increase the hours to 21 billion hours a week of online gaming to solve the world.

The photography Phil capture the emotion's of the gamers.

All the world of War craft gamers have spent 5.93 million years solving the virtual problems of Azeroth.

The average young person in a country with a strong gamer culture have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by age of 21.

Gamers are virtuosos at weaving a tight social fabric .

playing a game together builds up bonds , trust and strong relationships.

The average World of Warcraft gamer plays for 22 hours a week.

They are building an epic story.

They are building an epic knowledge resource about the World of Warcraft.

Sheep's knuckles these represent the first game equipment designed by human beings.

Herodotus says that games, particularly dice games were invented in the kingdom of Lydia during a time of famine.

They using games to escape real-world suffering and  using games to get away from everything that’s broken in the real environment.

Gamers are a human resource that we can use to do real world work

Intro Video

 

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