Reflections on Seminar

Had I done enough research and preparation?	I think yes I had done enough preparation to participate in the seminar. Because it is clearly shown through my blog posts the links I posted for the articles I read and the documentries I watched.
Did I speak enough during the seminar?	Actually I spoke enough during the seminar and I tried to involve all of the members into the seminar by asking them their opinion.
Was I a good listener?	I tried to listen every one very attentively when the other members were speaking and tried to took some notes for myself to help me to in writing the introduction.
Did I argue my opinion clearly?	I tried to make some very clear arguments by explaining them through the help of different examples.
Did I give reasons, examples and evidence to support my opinions?	I tried to provide different examples and evidences to support my dialogues according to my preparation for the seminar.
Did I ask relevant questions to other people?	To some extent, yes I did ask a few members a few questions by picking up some points from their part of speech.
Was the language I used accurate?	Somewhere it was accurate but somewhere as I think I mumbled but I asked the other participants if they were unclear about anything, I could explain that again.
Had I prepared the language I needed before the seminar?	Actually I prepared the vocabulary for the seminar because I found that necessary while I tried to use seminar language somewhere, where ever I thought it is needed.
Did I direct the discussion or help keep the discussion moving in the right direction?	At some points yes, when I realized the discussion is going somewhere else instead of the actual topic, I tried to turn the other members’ attention very politely towards the topic we were discussing.
Could other people clearly understand what I was saying?	Yes of course, because when I saw some blank faces I immediately stoped my self there and asked them as if they were getting my point of view or not.
Did I work well with the other people in my group?	Yes I think because I tried many times to get every member attending the seminar involved in the discussion, just to let them express their ideas.

At the end I would like to say this seminar was much better than the previous one because everyone performed so well and at some points I experienced as if we were going to have a fight with each other and on the other hand the environment was really friendly sometimes. The arguments were strong and argumentative.

That’s all your honour

Feedback on Firday's Seminar

In our seminar held on friday on Television viewing habits around the world with the Jim's class I discovered different types of things for example "how much TV people watch around the world", "The kind of programmes people watch" etc.

The key points we discovered were like in China people watch the TV about 30 hours a week which is about 75% of the working week time in the UK. It was quite surprising for me because, how can people spare so much time only for Television? one reason I can understand is if they are related to media somehow they can watch the TV even for more than 30 hours because it is the part of their job.

Secondly in Japan and Iran the percentage of the young people watching TV is decreasing now a days. Which is higher among men as compare to women, which could possilbly be because of other technologies (like internet and video games) are taking over the TV industry and they have to struggle hard to get the people tune in the TV.

Speaking about the Television Images we found that most of the TV images are not quite correct. They show us the other side of the picture, the media doesn't mirror the society actually. One of the reason we discussed is may possibly be the most of the TV channels in most countries are under the government control and they just do what ever they are told to do. Even in the reality TV shows its just not reality. Most of the stereotypes really reinforce the society like some of the action heros for adolescents, superman for young children etc.

We found another interesting thing while The future of television and viewers was under discussion that the Media Literacy is quite important and it should be taught in the schools, interestingly all of the seminar members agreed on that point. Talking about the future of television we were uncertain like what could it be. This seems to be a result of the growth of different technologies such as computers and gaming industries.