Presentation observation:

Tuesday 17 January 2013

Ahmad Nabil

Date: 14 December 2012

Venue: W104

Time: 11.00

Khalid presentation had a really great topic that interests everyone in the world. He was calm and had a clear voice so he wasn’t nervous. Khalid talked about the causes of garbage dumbing and then he explained the consequences of throwing garbage anywhere and he backed up his presentation with examples and one of the pictures were taken in the UAE. After that he talked about the solutions. He concluded his presentation with a summary of the whole topic. Finally, Khalid knew exactly what he was talking about.    

 

 

Presentation observation:

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Ahmad Nabil

Date: 27 November 2012

Venue: W104

Time: 11.00

Ahmad Nabil presentation was perfect he was very confident. It was obvious that he didn’t have any problems in his presentation. His subject was about the city of Saana and it was interesting. He was communicating well with the audience and it was shown that he wasn’t even nervous by his voice.Also, it was an advantage that he visited the city if Saana. Ahmad Nabil knew exactly what he was going to talk about and I believe that he prepared well for this day. The presentation that Ahmad Nabil did was successful and the prove is that he didn’t have any problems answering the questions. In my opinion he didn’t have any problems.

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Reflection on Meeting:

Date: Sunday 14^th October, 2012

Venue: W104

 

Time: 11:20 to 11:45

 

Chairman: Abdullah Ali

 

Secretary: Hasan Mubarak

 

Participant: Hamdan Mohamed, Abdullkareem

A meeting took place on Sunday the 14^th of October 2012 at conference room W104.  This meeting was called by and chaired by Abdullah Ali to discuss the bad influence of video games on students in stages of their childhood, teenager and adulthood time.  The chairman started the meeting with the problem statement “Video Games Influence” and directed the participants Hamdan and Abdulkareem to run the meeting in a way that we end up proposing some solutions and have a successful meeting.  Hassan was responsible of writing the minutes of meeting.

The agenda proposed by Abdullah was to discuss specific areas that we thought its common in the young generation in our current society.  We decided to discuss the behavior disorder symptoms, study performance, social problems and violent games influences.  We started defining the behavior disorder as a condition/s that are related to mental health problems that lead to disruptive behavior, emotional and social problems to generations in different stages.  AbdulKareem added that it’s important to observe the symptoms of such a problem as it differs from one person to another.  Some lie, others skip school, getting violent and aggressive and so on.  For that, medical care for the kids is an important first step in the treatment of disorders and the need of professional people to evaluate and put a treatment plan in terms of skill development for both the child and parents as well. 

Next point that has been discussed is how the video games affect the students’ performance; Hamdan raised a very good point that a continuous follow-up from parents is a must to discover such deterioration in the student performance and what is the reason behind it. So instead of the student’s playing with video games every day, parents should allow their kids to play those video games only as a reward for their good marks.  And not only that, Abdulkareem stated that the type of video games should be the parents responsibility and PG rated.

We them moved to the next agenda item, Social Problems,  AbdulKareem stated that this is a common problem in kids and teenagers.  Food disorders, smoking, drugs, etc are all example of social problems that teenagers go through in their teenage stage.  AbdulKareems also added that the lack of after school programs cause this problem and that parents must put the future of their children than their personal success in their career.  In short, parents role is very important in overcoming this issue.

At last, the effect of violent games on teenagers was discussed and we came to a conclusion that again parents and school has the biggest role in making student understand that its only a game and it does not reflect the real world, most of violent video games are nothing but stuffing teenagers minds to look up at bad science fiction as icons and this must be stopped.

The topics that have been discussed were very interesting and participants were very energetic as they went through that period or they saw someone close do and that’s why it was such an interesting discussion and all participants were very effective and added great values.  As this was my first meeting/discussion, I enjoyed the way meeting was ran by Abdullah as he gave all the members the opportunity to participate and give their opinion and input.  And on top of this, I was happy that we proposed solution and not only discuss the problems, that way, the meeting was almost perfect.  I look forward to such meetings in future.

 

 

 

 

Report on meeting:

Problem: Video games effect on teenagers and kids

Date: Sunday 14^th October, 2012

Venue: W104

Time: 11:20 to 11:45

Chairman: Abdullah Ali

Secretary: Hasan Mubarak

Participant: Hamdan Mohamed, Abdullkareem

Agenda:

Behavior: disorder symptoms

Bad effect on study performance

Social problems

The effect of playing violent games on children

Abdullah (chairman) opened the meeting to find with his group some solutions that will benefit the teenagers and kids.

1) Behavior: disorder symptoms

Hasan mentioned that the parents should take the teenagers and kids to see a psychiatrist to talk with their children and show them the bad effect that will be exposed to them in the future.

2) Bad effect on study performance

Hamdan said that the parents should keep in touch with the teachers to know how their kids are doing with study and if they have bad marks they take the games from them and encourage them to study hard and if they get good marks they return the games but put for them a long time to study instead of playing video games.

3) Social problems

Abdullkareem said that the parents should do a trip at the weekends for their children and take them to the park or to visit their grandmother, grandfather or arrange a trip with the whole family and go to the beach; that will keep the children in touch with the family instead of being alone and playing video games.

4) The effect of playing violent games on teenagers

Abdullah admonished the parents and said they should look after the teenagers when they play the violent games and show them the bad effects of playing these games and advise them that this is just a game and don't practise it on others.

Recommendations:

1) Seeing a psychiatrist is a good idea but our society thinks that anyone who goes and sees a psychiatrist is crazy and because of this it’s difficult for the children to accept this idea.

2) Keeping the parents in touch with the teachers will help the parents very much with their children to know the academic achievement and will encourage the children to study more to get what they need.

3) Out on a trip will benefit the children and parents and the communication between them thus will reduce the time of children sitting alone and spending their time on playing video games.

4) Violent games are harmful and parents should not allow their children to play them .

Job interview report

Job interview report

On Tuesday the 25^th of September I have been interviewed for a job in the police force by Ms. Khulood Al Zaabi, Mr.Hedley and Mr.Majid.

My name is Abdul Kareem Al Marzouqi. I’m 18 years old and I’m a student in the Higher College of Technology. This is my second year and my major is Chemical Engineering. 

Since I was a child I always wanted to be a police officer and I have set up my mind to fulfill my dream.I know that police officers must overcome all kind of pressure and I believe that I can work under pressure. I was in a football club and the coach was always depending on me so I felt that I was under a lot of pressure but still I was able to give my best in every game and I’m proud to say that my team was always one of the three first places. In addition to football, my hobbies are swimming and cooking.  I really enjoy cooking. I always wanted to help people and I see myself after 6 years doing the same. There are so many ways to help people so my aim is to become a general and serve my beloved country. I will also have more responsibilities and abilities and I want to help the people of the Emirates and to give back to the society.

Written by:Abdulkareem AlMarzouqi