CST 300 Seventh Week Journal

 CST 300 Seventh Week Journal

OLI Module 10

    This week we practiced our conflict communication skills. These skills include: conflict recognition, active listening, and assertion messaging. We practiced our skills in a simulated situation by watching a video and answering questions on the best way to move the situation forward. Then came the time to practice those skills with our team in real time. The role-play assignment came with team roles. I decided to be the observer that awards/removes points based on each member's performance with regards to active listening, conflict resolution/management, and assertion messages. I was able to listen to my team collaborate on a project. We utilized the skills we learned in OLI, and the role play went well with no conflict and the creation of a plan of action for how to move forward.

Week 7 Learning Journal

Part One:

    My team met this week (2/17) at night to collaborate with each other on the Research Video Project. We collaborated through video conference on Discord. It went well. We talked about the assignment, questions we had, and ideas on how to proceed. We decided on a deadline of Thursday (2/22) for our completed video recordings and slides for the videos. Fortunately, everything went smoothly, but next time I would read the assignment instructions and rubric more thoroughly so that I could have more time to come up with possible plans of action. It felt as though most planning and thinking was done on the spot. While it worked out this time, I prefer feeling prepared with a clear understanding of the assignment so I can have time to think about ideas before I discuss them with others.

Part Two:

Ted.Com Videos

    I watched this Ted Talk on AI. Danger of AI. The video goes over the quirks of working with AI. They explain that there are some interesting and less than desirable outcomes when working with AI. The first example given is feeding ice cream flavors to AI in order to come up with new ones. The AI ends up creating odd new flavors with unpleasant sounding names like "strawberry cream disease". It is explained that AI, currently, is not too smart. It does what you ask it to do and without specific rules and requirements the AI will often find odd and unusual ways to accomplish the goal. Another example was a 2D side-scrolling game in which the AI is given the goal of reaching the end of the map to the right, but no requirements were given on how big its character could be. So the AI in its wisdom, or lack of it, decided to create a character model that was as tall as the map is long. This meant all the AI had to do was fall over to the right in order to reach the end of the map. This video gave great information on how to work with AI as well as its current limitations.
    I also watched this Ted Talk on What Makes A Good Life?. The talk goes over the longest study on happiness. The first group in the study are men that were sophomores in college. The other group were from disadvantaged Boston city children. These subjects were examined medically, interviewed, and their parents were interviewed. The study's message is good relationships keep up happier and healthier. Social connections are good for us, loneliness kills. Living in high conflict relationships are bad for our health.

Presentation Skills

    I watched the Life After Death by PowerPoint video in our lecture module. This video was a humorous exploration on all of the ways not to use PowerPoint. The font that you use matters. It conveys a great deal of information to your audience. The text size also matters. You should make sure your audience can quickly and easily read what is on your slide in order to follow along. Use minimal, if any, animations. These can be distracting and can take away from the information that you are trying to convey. Use charts and graphs in a way that is easy for people to understand and read. Have clean and organized slides. Consider keeping a maximum of 3-5 bullet points per slide. Use your slide as a jumping point for your talking points instead of as a script to read off of. Avoid relying on acronym usage, especially if your audience has a chance of not knowing them.

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