CIP Reflections

After weeks and weeks of CIP, I've learnt to appreciate the art of Internet. The power to create or destroy. Maybe not that serious that it seems, but the implications of the Internet is much more far-reaching than one can ever imagine. News, good or bad, are spread so quickly, with a speed that a wildfire would be proud of. The Internet is such a medium whereby everyone would be able to express their comments freely on. With restriction of speech out of the way, all are more or less able to just say what they feel. Of course, with some exceptions of social issues.

Generally, what covered in this module is deifinitely what I did not expect at all at the point that I chose to come Ngee Ann polytechnic for Business Studies. Of course, what link of Business and Computing can it have? Of course, I found the reason eventually. But the coverage of Dreamweaver, Flash, implications of internet security, have made me understand more about the world. Being not a very IT person, I guess the things covered in the module has been more than sufficient for me. However, I do feel that it would be more beneficial for it to include things like Photoshop-ing applications, because I suppose that would be more of a personal angle.

The hands-on approach would be very appropriate for this module because in the first place it is an application-based issue. Being able to do it had allowed me to understand more, even though it is through trial and error. It gave me the room to make mistakes in the first place, then learn for the mistakes.

The PBLs are set in the way that it made me feel I was really given the task. My group made efforts to check out websites, call up certain companies, and even went down to Sim Ling Square to check out the prices of items. It forced me to understand that things that I had never knew or wanted to know in the first place, and somewhat, I realised that it wasn't that bad of a journey at the end of the day. It being real, the need for more teamwork and work to be done increased to a state that I had never expected it to be, especially when it had always been case-studies or fictional cases in our past projects in other modules.

The lecturers and tutors had offered tremendous aid to my lessons, they offered helpful information and effective feedback to let me understand their perspective. Then, I would ask them about my perspective then we were able to see the issue from both perspectives and strike a balance, ending up with the best way out.

The class size of 40 is pretty okay, just that I felt it is a tad too large. The inevitable disturbance of some students are definitely there, and the size would just encourage them to do so more, due to the fact that the teacher wouldn't be able to control the size of 40, which is doubled the usual of 20.

If there was something that I could change, it would be to allow any form of presentation, to allow creativity in the class. Firstly, it is a business course. Presentation style should be left more flexible, to allow the students to exercise forms of creavtivity in the classrooms.

I appreciate the Word-processing applications, as it aided in my other projects in Business Studies, which required me to do documents or reports. Although CIP might not be directly linked with Business, the fast-paced society have already made it somewhat a pre-requisite that all should be at the very least be able to perform basic skills of the IT aspect.