SE/2015/010 PPD

We did an interesting activity on our PPD(personal progress and development) session, it was called "Trust Walk". We were instructed to find a partner for this activity. Then we went to the upper side of the lecture room with our partner. After that had to cover eyes of one of the member in a pair. We had to guide our blindfolded partner through the front of the hall to the outside e=without touching her/him. It was hard to guide because many obstacles were there including some stairs as well. When it is my turn to get blindfolded I was feeling nervous because it was scary but we had a great fun. We did our task well until the end.  We learned many good things for our life from this activity. Some of them are mentioned below, how to overcome obstacles by taking the right decision how to communicate effectively listening and obey your partner  how to build trust according to the situation how to work collaboratively to achieve a goal adjusting to t...

We learned how to write a CV in prior to internships for upcoming year. CV should not be more than 2 or 3 pages. Photograph : Right corner of the first page (optional) Personal Details : Name, address, email and telephone number Personal profile/Objective : Brief description about your aims and goals Educational qualifications : point out tour educational status up to now ex:- currently reading degree in the university, school Skills : Mention your technical and soft skills regarding your purpose of the CV soft skills - language skills, leadership, team work etc. Professional qualification : write your non-academic qualifications under this certificates, diplomas can be mentioned. Work experience :  include the name of the company and your work role as well as the duration Training and workshops : mentioned recently attended occasions only Achievements and extra curricular activities : Awards, places can be mentioned as well as sports and other external t...

In one of our PPD(Personal Progress and Development) sessions we learned about the self reflection and how to reflect ourselves. Basically self reflection is like looking into a mirror and describing what you see.It might be your inner self and appearance as well. In appearance basis we observed ourselves using the camera of our phone.I didn't catch any changes of me, because my appearance is same as before an ordinary looking university student.But apart from the appearance we observed our inner selves.We learned how to do a self reflection correctly. From my observation I identified few things of me that reflects my personality and about who am I. For example, strengths : I have a good tolerance Weaknesses : Easily hurt by others' words Achievements : Got through studies up to university Skills : I am good at aesthetics and good listener Problems : Personal things may affect my studies "Honest self reflection opens your mind to reprogrammin...

The Expert Game Last week on our PPD session we did an interesting game. We were divided into five groups and asked about our expert area individually by our madam. After identifying the expert areas of all our group members, we had to bend our expertise areas to make a simple product by combining three of them. Our group members had expertise areas such as gaming, dancing, cooking, playing cricket, taekwondo, painting etc. Among these areas we chose taekwondo, gaming and painting. So far, the given time we came up with our product. It was a game, play using taekwondo skills. The winner will get a nice painting. It was  a multiplayer game. From this activity we learnt how to bend the expertise areas of our group members to give out a creative product.   Pen and Thread     We did another game after above activity. We were divided into same groups as before and were provided a paper, thread, pen and a gum tape for every group. Usi...

Visit to WSO2 A Technical Writing session was organized by our University. It was held on 12 th September at WSO2, a leading software company in Sri Lanka. That was the first time I ever visited a software company. Environment of the company was very friendly. We went to their hall which was named as area 51. Everywhere was very colorful and calm. We got the basic idea about technical writing from the introduction. We did a small activity to test our skills. After another two or three presentations we got a good knowledge about technical writing, aspects, career paths, how to do technical writing etc. Then we were divided into groups and did an activity regarding what instructions should be given to a customer who is using an ATM machine for the first time to withdraw money from his/her savings account. The wining group got t-shirts. After refreshments we had a great fun by doing an object guessing game. We had to guess the objects which were described by other teams...

CREATIVITY SKILLS Developing creativity You can improve your creative ability by exercising it in the same way that you master mesmorising names or learning a new language. Exercising the right side of your brain will inevitably develop your imagination and assist in developing creativity and creative thinking skills. Listed below are some ideas for exercising your creative ability, but a word of caution, they will only benefit you if you truly want to improve your creativity. Believe in your own capability Telling ourselves that we are creative and have the capability to generate ideas, will ensure that we do not put any psychological barriers in the way of generating great ideas. The right side of our brain provides the capability to generate ideas, if we merely use and exercise it. Identify your own ideas first When you need to come up with ideas or solutions, try to avoid going to the creative people you may have tended to rely on in the past. Take time...