Wednesday 28th September; first lecture

Wednesday 28^th September was my first lecture for Communication skills for digital media; firstly this involved an ice-breaker task for the whole group. We were put into groups of 3-4 people and the task was to get to know each other, then do a presentation in front of the class describing others in your group. In my group there was two other girls called Kat and Izzy, I really enjoyed this informal group work as it was a good way to get to know everyone in the lecture! I also felt that the group work between Kat, Izzy and I was good as we all communicated well together, making the presentation easier to plan. J

After the first task we were put into different groups to do a learning team presentation task, I was put into a group with three other students (Rachel, Sarah and Alex). The task required us to prepare and deliver a 5-10 minute presentation about one of five subjects. As a group we all decided to research about the subject Digital Video Editing. As a team we discussed the topics that we were going to research, and then we planned who was to research the different topics! Once we all fully understood what we were doing we planned a date and time to put our presentation together. We did it like this so we would all have enough time to research our chosen topics as fully as we could. From this first session I learnt that team work is very important within the media and that if a group has poor communication skills, presentations cannot be at a high standard as team member can get confused if they are unsure what they are doing!