Showing posts with label Creative Thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Thinking. Show all posts

Monday, January 1, 2018

STAND ON THE PAPER

                   This is another very interesting game. The game is simple. But it is challenging and really enjoyable.
                  Basically this game is all about managing the space we have and stand each member of the team on the paper.When the game goes on, paper will be teared to exactly the half of the previous size. The team who successful in many rounds or in other words the team who stand on the paper for longer time will be the winners.

Rules
  1.   At least one leg of each member should be in the paper area.
  2.   Teams can use any method.
  3.   After each round ,size of the paper will be minimized in to the half of the size compare to the previous round.
  4.   Each team will get the same duration of time. If a team unsuccessful after the given time they will eliminate from the game.
My Experience
 
                   After the game started our first task was find the correct method to balance ourselves. First round many teams were successful as well as mine. But after the few rounds it was really tough.
In the given time we had to think quickly and execute on our plan. Each member of the team done their best for win the contest.

Things I learnt
  • Time management
  • Team work
  • Decision making
  • Balancing my body
  • Self confidence
  • Quick thinking


WHAT I LEARNT FROM PPD!


                      " PPD ", before few months ago this words sensed nothing for us. Personally I thought this is only another subject that we have to learn. After participated the few PPD sessions, I understand I was really wrong. This is not just a subjects. It is a subject that include many good things for our life. The best thing about this subject is having various types of new experiences day by day. So I think many people enjoy learning in PPD sessions. Also I believe all of them have gained lot of good things to their life from PPD. In here I present you the things that I have learnt from PPD.
As I said I have learnt many things from PPD. But in here I have mentioned most important things among those.


  • Self Confidence
  • Team Work
  • Leadership
  • Decision Making
  • Time Management
  • Creative Thinking
  • Problem Solving

  •     Let's consider one by one.

    ·          Self Confidence

                      “A feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgement." This is the definition of the word “Self Confidence” that I found in the internet. This is not a hard word to search in the internet or the dictionary. Because everyone know what is self-confidence is. But the problem is, do we have a good self confidence? Or do we work on that to improve? Even though we already know the important of self-confidence to our lives most us don't work to improve that. "Self Confidence" is really important to our career as well as our day to day life. Many tasks can be easily achieve if you have a great self confidence. Also Self Confidence play major part of your personality.This PPD sessions really helped me to increase my self confidence.From the tasks we got in PPD sessions are the main reason for that. Now I feel much better than before specially when I face to big crowd.

    ·      Team Work

                       Team work is a something really useful for us when completing tasks. It is much easier to complete any task as a team than an individual. Because in a team you have more man power and more ideas. Also you can consider about a problem in many views when you working as a team. This something I learnt from many PPD sessions. We achieved many tasks we got in those session by working as a team. As a example "Paper Tower” exercise.





    Leadership
                        Leadership is something really important to all of us. Because sometimes we have to face to tasks as a team. So when you work as a team good leader is needed. If you have good leadership qualities you can take that responsibility and can reach to the success with your team. In those PPD sessions we had to work as a team many times. As a one occasion “Paper Tower”. In that exercise we understood who is a good leader and what is his/her role in the team. Also we understood real leader is not a person who giving commands for others. Along with leadership you have to gain another qualities to work as a leader. Like respect to others, positive optimism and etc. So finally I should say those PPD sessions helped me to understand real answers to “Who is a real leader?” .

    ·        Decision Making

                        I think this a one of the most important things that I have learnt from PPD. “Decision Making” is really important to our lives in every occasion. Because we have to face many questions when we following the success. A little mistake or in other words a little wrong decision can make your whole life or whole career unsuccessful. So it is really important to understand right decision making. Not only a right decision also it is important understand when it should take.

      Time Management

                          Time is a very vital thing. To better future we should be able to get the maximum value of the time. Also we should least the wastage of our time. To do that we must have good practice to manage time. Because the progress of time management mainly depend on the experiences we have on that. From every activity we done in our PPD sessions, we learnt many things and got many experiences about time management. Sometimes we didn’t complete our tasks within the time limitation because we didn’t plan properly. Those kinds of experiences really helped us to increase time management abilities of myself.

    ·        Creative Thinking

                           Creativity is something that really makes ourselves unique. Especially because we are in a really competitive world creativity is a must for our success. In our PPD sessions almost every task needed creative thinking. As an example, I remember once we have to dress ourselves using leaves, flowers, papers and etc. Also our teacher supported us by providing many new ideas and she explained us how to identify main points and then think creatively on those points. It really helped us to improve our creative thinking abilities.
    ·
    Problem Solving

                             In our day to day life we have to face many problems and challenges. Also we should find most suitable answers for those. In those points we have to really use our problem solving skills. Most important part of problem solving is identifying the problem correctly. Only then we can think about solutions. After that we can select the most suitable answer for the question. In many PPD sessions we had to solve problems. Sometimes we were finding solutions individually and sometimes as a team. All those experiences really helped us to increase my problem solving abilities.


    Until now I presented you the things I have learnt from PPD sessions. Finally I should say PPD really helped me to make my life better than I was before.

    Tuesday, December 26, 2017

    PAPER TOWER

         

                    Another pleasant experience from the PPD session.first our teacher Miss.Sarasi devided us in to 3 groups. She gave us 12 A4 sheets,pair of scissors,a sello-tape and challenge to built a big paper tower from given papers within 45 minutes.

    The following would be checked,
            *longest tower
            *firmness tower
            *straightness of the tower

       First of all we needed to imagine the structure of our tower. All of the members in our group presented their own ideas.We selected the best structure and started to build it all together.Then we rolled the papers like cones and pasted them one by one.When we were building the middle part of the tower , we faced a major problem.When tower's height is increasing,the straightness and strength went down. Even though we continued to build the tower it was not steady it can't stand without any support. So we had to find the way to solve this problem. When the time up somehow we managed to built the tower successfully. 

       At the end of this session Miss.Sarasi showed us our good things and faults. Specially she pointed out that our creativity is not at the best when comparing to other teams.

      







     After this great activity we learned ,
    • making decision
    • how to respect other's opinions
    • leadership
    • importance of the plan
    • creativity

                  The paper tower session is important of develop our personal development skills and it was enjoyable and great activity.


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