Personal Reflection

Generally, this course was an interesting and useful course in some areas. However, in other areas I found it boring and repeated course or in other word it was similar to a course that I took it two semester ago and it had almost the same syllabus.

Some of areas that I don’t like were the repeated topics such as how to run a meeting, how to do a presentations and how to write a report with a bibliography. The problem was not only because these topics are topics that I did before it is because these topics were represented with the same way. I don’t mind to study a course that I studied before since it is present in a different and interesting way and it have new ideas that could take my knowledge a step further.

Some of areas that I really liked about this course were how to write a CV. Through my whole life I heard about the CV but I don’t know it is important until I had this course which helped me to write my first CV in a professional way, which was a unique experience in this course. Another important learning outcome I liked from this course is the way of writing a letter, which is an important document that should attach with the CV when applying for a job.

All in all, this course goes very well and all that because of our teacher Mr. John Vrhovnik who was available for us anytime we needed him. He is a nice teacher with a happy disposition, who has a sharp sense of humor; I can say he was the reasons behind a successful course completion.

Report on the group meeting

Based on the agenda that we made our meeting was on HCT credit system based on the student survey result. It is a very interesting topic. The meeting conducted last Thursday on 27-October 2011. We started the meeting at 8:15and it took place in T005 at ADMC. Our group consists of Osama Mohamed, Mohamed Al kamali and Sultan Al Bloushi. Sultan was the chairman of the meeting, which he had to play the biggest and most important role of the meeting. Osama Mohamed was the note taker which is a big role in any meeting.

After the chairman had welcomed everyone to the meeting we started the meeting. We moved to our Agenda and Sultan decided to take the issues in order and spend 2 to 3 minutes on each item plus 5 minutes for the introduction and 5 minutes for the conclusion, because we only had 25 minutes to finish up this meeting. We discussed five different items related to our topic, the time table, courses, attendance, English courses and summer courses. We went through each item and we discussed the points which were related to that particular item.

Everyone had different opinions involving different points and each one of us provided his own point of view. We were all agreed with most of the point so we are going to start working on them from now. Some of the points we agreed on with conditions.

From my point of view our meeting was good. All the attendees were in the meeting room on time. They all were well prepared and contributed vigorously. We had covered all the agenda points and in the same order. Everybody got the chance to participate in the meeting and give his opinion. There was a lot of respect between all members. I think that no one got interrupted while talking and that’s one of the main reasons to be succeeded in a meeting. If I will be asked to do the meeting again for sure I am going to have the same members, because we got along together will and we built a strong respect between us.

MINUTES

THE KILLERS TEAM MEETING

TOPIC: HCT CREDIT SYSTEM, STUDENTS SURVEY RESULTS




3rd Nov 2011

8:15 – 8:45 am

ADMC, T015B

Meeting called by: Sultan Khalifa

Facilitator: Sultan Khalifa Note taker: Osama Mohamed

Attendees: Mohamed Alkamali Purpose: Discus the topic and create a list of recommendations and the benefits for the college administrations considerations.

Minutes

Topic: discussing the pro/ cons of the semester vs. credit system




Agenda item: Time table

Discussion:

The group discussed the first main item which is the time table, including the sub points which are the time selection, flexibility, course selection and weekend lessons.

Conclusion:

The discussion involving the first main item faced no conflict, except for the weekend lesson which was agreed on under certain conditions in which weekend lessons are proposed and provided that they are optional for both teachers and students.







Agenda item: Courses

Discussion:

The courses are discussed and its sub points which are, the availability and adding and dropping options.

Conclusion:

The group agreed on the adding and dropping courses, but totally disagreed with the second point which was the availability. This means the availability of the teachers during the summer, because taking the summer classes is depending on teachers.



Agenda item: Attendance

Discussion:

The attendance was then put on the table for discussion, its points included; missed classes and the attendance marking.

Conclusion:

On the attendance count issue, the group was in consensus but on the other hand the missed classes were agreed under one condition which was that, teacher will accept the makeup classes as pre-arranged.


Agenda item: English Course


Discussion:

The discussion involved English courses and two points related to that particular item, which was the level of the student’s skill for new entries and the GPA.


Conclusion:

All the attendees agreed on these points, and the group members thought that this main item was essential and critical to students and it would help many students to raise their GPA and English levels.


Agenda item: Summer courses

Discussion:

The summer courses involved two sub points which were running courses in the summer, and early graduation.


Conclusion:

The group members totally agreed with these points and they all thought that the summer courses would help students graduate early. In addition, this would provide them a second chance to repeat their failed course which is beneficial.





Note: the list of recommendations is attached to the report.

AGENDA

THE KILLERS TEAM MEETING


TOPIC: HCT CREDIT SYSTEM, STUDENTS SURVEY RESULTS



27th Oct 2011

8:15 – 8:45 am

ADMC, T015B

Meeting called by: Sultan Khalifa

Facilitator: Sultan Khalifa Note taker: Osama Mohamed

Attendees: Mohamed Alkamali Purpose: Discus the topic and create a list of recommendations and the benefits for the college administrations considerations.

AGENDA ITEMS

Topic: discussing the pro/ cons of the semester vs. credit system Time



1) Time table time (selection flexibility ,course selection, weekend lessons) 3 min

2) Courses (add and drop availably) 2 min

3) Attendance (miss class ,attendance count) 3 min

4) English course ( level, GPA) 2 min

5) Summer courses (running courses ,early graduation) 3 min

6) Other points 2 min

OBJECTIVE





The aim of this meeting is to discuss the pro/ cons of the semester vs. credit system and to find the best solutions; the solution for this subject is based on a survey that was made among the college students. This idea will be presented to the college management based on the survey results. From the survey results a list of solutions and recommendations will be sent to the college management to take into consideration.