Final Reflection – (last video: outro)

Good Bad Meeting. (Extra)

Good Meeting:

1.  Everybody attend nobody absent or late.
2.  Welcoming message by the chair.
3.  Introduction and summary of the meeting is presented by the chair.
4.  Agenda is prepared and followed.
5.  Chair open and close each point making sure it follow the time.
6.  Minutes taker should be presented and follow the meeting.
7.  Time, location and venue of the meeting is mentioned on the agenda and minutes.
8.  The mention the next follow up meeting.
9.  Each participant come prepared for the meeting.
10.  They have Objective and product in the agenda.
11.  Closing the meeting by the chair thanking every participant.
12.  Minutes is taken and it have product and conclusion.
13.  Mention the party that will receive the product and conclusion in the minutes.

Bad Meeting:

1. · Members absent or late.
2. · Agenda is missing.
3. · Agenda is not complete does not have venue and timing or no summary or no objective.
4. · Chair is does not start the meeting or he does not monitor time for agenda points and overall meeting.
5. · Points are not clear.
6. · Time is not calculated exactly for each objective and the whole meeting.
7. · No body know what the meeting is about. It’s a routine meeting for no purpose. “Everybody bored and does not know why they are there”.
8. · No minutes taker.
9. · No minutes produced for the meeting.
10. · Minutes does not mention who the product and conclusion will be sent to for review.
11. · Next meeting is not mentioned.
12. · People start going out of the meeting answering phones or start speaking in different topic outside the scope of the meeting.

Gamification 3rd world Farmers Presentation - Slides

LSEC 1503 Meeting Assessment - Minutes

LSEC N302                           Meeting Assessment – Minutes         Section: CMN

Date of Meeting: Sunday 25^th of Nov 2013

Time of meeting : 15:00 – 15:15pm

Venue:          W104

Group Members Roles:

Chair: Thabet.

Minutes Taker: Mussa.

Group member: Saleh and Raed.

Topic: The New ADMC Data Center Requirements.

Minutes:

•         Meeting Started on time.
•       All the members attended.
•       Chairman Thabet Al Sayari Opened the meeting by welcoming members.                         Members reviewed the requirements that presented by Saleh AlHamadi.
•     Requirement have been agreed and a list is finalized.
•     Project time plan was presented by Raed Al Ahmed and members agreed upon   it.
•     Vendor pool list presented by Mussa Al Saadi was narrowed and three vendors where selected by all the members.
• Chairman Thabet Al Sayari closed the meeting by thanking all the members for participating and confirmed that all task have been done.

Products & Conclusion:

We created The list of requirements and  their justifications, also we  finalized the time frame and the vendor pool. It will be sent to the managing Director by 30^th of December 2013 for approval.

LSEC N302 Meeting Assessment – Agenda

LSEC N302                           Meeting Assessment – Agenda            Section:CMN

Date of Meeting: Sunday 25^th of Nov 2013

Time of meeting : 15:00 – 15:15pm

Venue:          W104

Group Members Roles:

Chair: Thabet.

Minutes Taker: Mussa.

Group member: Saleh and Raed.

Venue preparation:

1-      Round table with 4 chairs.

2-      Coffee and water for 4 persons.

Topic: The New ADMC Data Center Requirements.

Agenda: -need not to be 6 points – could be 2-4!

·         Intro By Chairman ( 1 minute)

1.      Requirements. (4 minutes)

2.      Justification. (3 minutes)

3.      Time Frame for starting and ending. (3 minutes)

4.      Selecting final vendors from vendor pool. (3 minutes)

·         Closing by Chairman ( 1 minute)

Objective (s) /Product : What you plan to accomplish / produce

+Action Points (if known):

Objectives:

Our meeting about the new ADMC Data Center will establish project Requirements, Justifications, Time frame and narrowing the vendor pool.

Product:

We will Create a list of requirements and  their justifications, also we will finalize the time frame and the vendor pool

How to conduct an effective meeting - LSEC N1503 – Video worksheet 4

LSEC N1503 – Video worksheet 4

How to conduct an effective meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSft2OeMmzQ

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

   1.     Don’t have a meeting unless There is a clear purpose .

a.    Set objectives – what’s The meeting for?

   2.    Do you want  a Decision    ,   Action , Or  Feedback ?

   What do you want to Achieve    On the end ?

   3.    Provide an Agenda before  the meeting.  People could be  Allocate topics

to prepare beforehand to get them involved.

    And prioritize the list of  What need to be Done Keep the agenda Short and make      sure  that every Item ­­­­­has a  Clear purpose.

   4.    Set times for   Each topic point and stick to them.  Close the

  Discussion when the Times up.

   5.    Start and end  On time. Don’t wait around for people

who are  Late. They assume that the meetings always Start late. And don’t let the      meeting drag on after The time finish.

   6.    Capture action  Points. Make sure that every  Topic  has been discussed, that everyone     is clear what needs to  Be done, and Who going to do it.

       Circulate a summary after The meeting. If there are no   Action points, then what was the Purpose of the meeting?

How to conduct an effective meeting - LSEC N307 - Vedio Worksheet 3

LSEC N1503 – Video worksheet 3

How to conduct an effective meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoEFlAXuSjg&feature=PlayList&p=B95F0CA543CE3497&index=3&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

Watch the video presentation and finish off the following sentences:

  1.     This video presentation is on Leading effective Business Meeting

  2.    It is important to have  an Agenda that lists the Items that will be covered

  3.    During the meeting:

a.     Let people know What Are the Agenda points.

b.    How much Time will be needed.

c.    That there will be time on the schedule for Questions and Answers.

  4.    Someone should never leave a meeting and wonder What it was about and What was our purpose.

  5.    They should know what their next Step, Agenda, point or purpose.

  6. Always know What that meeting was about.

Exercises Number 5 Listening Comprehension

1. Haiyan Typhoon BBC News reports (Peter Dobbie).

Who: 
 10000  people dead in the eastern Province of Philippines. 

What:

Typhoon Haiyan Heats Philippine.

Where:
 Eastern Province of Philippines. 

When:
already hit Philippines and will landfall in Vietnam late Saturday or Monday morning.

Why:
wind speed reaching 195 miles per hour destroying every thing.

How:
Typhoon hit very populated province making a lot of damage and a lot of deaths.

Specific Details:

Typhoon Haiyan category 5 hit eastern province of Philippines causing a lot of damages and deaths with around 10000 deaths and many are lost. The Typhoon scheduled to landfall in Vietnam late Saturday or Monday morning. Vietnam government already evacuated 600,000 people from the route of the Typhoon, but many have come back since Typhoon Haiyan become slower. 

3. Howard Johnson reports from Dubai's International Motor show

Who: 
Dubai and middle east car consumers. 

What:

Dubai International Motor show will host launching of a lot of cars.

Where:
Dubai International Motor Show.

When:
From 5th till 9th of November of 2013 on Dubai World Trade Center.

Why:
Consumers in UAE and Middle East region love to have special cars.  

How:
a lot of car manufactures are releasing there new cars in this show.

Specific Details:
 Porsche Cayenne is the most sold car in UAE. while Range Rover owners per capital is the highest in UAE. UAE consumers have the logic of having special edition cars. Bugatti is releasing a special edition car 3 pieces costing 2.8 Million dollars. royal customs garage owned by Houssam Solh is working in special edition Lexus Invader for a special customers.

4. Tensions flare over government 'land grabs' in China By "Damian Grammaticas"

Who: 

China farmers, Farms and countryside.

What: 

Framers fight local government. Land reforms move is required.  

Where: 

Yunnan province.

When: 

These days.

Why: 

Local government want to take the land from farmers and develop it.

How: 

Framers does not have the right to sell or own the land they can grow on it only.

Specific Details:

China leader and the president will meet this weekend to discuss a land reform that might help half of China population to benefit more from land.

Assignment – Exercise #4 EXTRA

a)    What is shown on the second slide? 

The Outline Slide.

(b)   How many slides should you use a minute?

1 to 2 Slides per minute.

(c)    How many points should you have per slide?

4 to 5 points per slide.

8. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world - Portfolio #2 (Extra)

Epic Win in Jane McGonigal Speech.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world.

Jane McGonigal, she is a Game designer with experience of 10 years on designing online games.

Her goal is to make it easy to save the real world as it easy to save the virtual world in online game.

The classic game emotion is the Epic Win is presented as sign while she talk. Epic Win is an outcome that is so positive you wouldn't think you can make it.

Epic Win is the face that we need to see while solving problem of the world.  Opposite to it is I'm not good at live which we have to fight. Gamers tend to have Epic Win face in virtual gaming world while in real world many tend to be not good at.
This is because while gaming we are best on confronting obstacles.

She stated that we need to take those good feelings from game environment to the real live.

She had World of War Craft as an example this game that there players played over 5.93 million years of total gaming. This is the same 5.93 million years ago that historian  said the first man stud. This can indicate time spent while gaming can led to evolving by time.

Statistics indicate that an average gamer in USA spent 10.000 hours gaming by the time he reach 21 years.
This is almost the same time he spent studying from 5th grade till he finish high school if he had a perfect attendance the time is 10,080 hours.

Also in Theory of Success by Malcolm glad he wrote that if you spent 10,000 hours working or studying something or a subject you will virtue on it and you will grate on it. He call it the 10,000 hours of success.

The introduce of new gaming system that is low in power consumption and use mobile internet will add  a billion new user to the grid. Imagine if there is a away to teach them by gaming how useful this will be.

What game make us good at?

1- urgent optimism:

Which is self optimization to solve problem with hope that we have grate chance to solve it.

2- social fabric;
Study showed that we like people better after we play game with them, so playing games together build bond and trust.

3-blissful production:

Gamers have no problem playing a game for 22 hours if they are good at which is better than sitting or laying down.

4-Epic meaning:

WOW by help of users built a wiki for gamers that is as large as the current Wikis. This is an Epic effort of cooperation.


Gamer are Super, Empowered and helpful individuals. They can change world, but the virtual worlds for sure. Jane is trying to solve this and help them by gaming to change the real world as they do in virtual ones.

"We are witnessing what an amount to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environment" Economist Edward castronova.

How solve problems with game?.

Before 2500 years people invented a dice from the sheep knuckles this was during the time of Lydia people. Lydia people was suffering from famine. So the king decided to make a law that in one day people will eat but in the other will only play games because of that they survived the famine for 18 years. In the end he divided the whole country in to two teams and both will play a game which the winner will have to leave the land and let the rest survive with what supply they have. New findings indicate that the Roman descended from Lydian who Travel after winning which make the story true and ligament.

Jane started making games which teach people and help them cooperate with each others.
1- World without oil: a game teach people how they can live without oil and what will effect them if the oil stopped.
2-Super struct: in this game the human race will extinct. People will team up to invent how the future of human species will be.
3-Evoke: a game which promote the cooperation between players  to solve problem that they facing.

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I wish. Jane McGonigal Speech.

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life.

Jane Mcgonigal is a gamer, she like to have goals and she like special missions specially Secret objective.

Her special mission for this talk is to expand the lifespan of every body in this room by 7.5 minutes. and she have the math to prove it.

There mission is to find what they will do with the extra minutes.

she recommend spending more time playing.

after her last Talk in TED she received  a lot of comment and number one comment was : if you where in your deathbed are you going to wish that you spent more time playing Angry Birds?

also she mentioned that a Taxi cab she ride with while going to Gaming Expedition says after knowing that they are game designer " I hate Games" and Games are waste of time. this is one of wrong ideas people have about gaming and online gaming.

She continue in our deathbeds are we going to regret the time we spent while playing games.?

Hospice Workers which are the people who take care of people in the end of there life issued a report about the top five most frequently expressed regrets that people express in there deathbeds these are the top Five:

1- I wish I hadn't work so hard.

2- I wish I had  Stayed in touch with my Friends.

3- I wish I had let my self be happier.

4- I wish I had the Courage to express my true self.

5- I wish I had lived a life true to my dreams instead of what other expected of me.

Jane explained how they can conquered those regrets by playing games as follow:

1- Parents who play games with there children have more stronger relationships.

2- Social Games is a powerful relationship management tool you will find a lot of friend there and keep in touch with them.

3- a 30 minute online game can outperform pharmaceuticals for treating clinical anxiety and depression a university study prove it.

4-Playing with the right Avatars can change how we think and act in real life.

5- fifth one left with a question mark for farther explanation. 

Why she talk about deathbeds?

Jane spent three month in bed waiting to die.!

She hit her head and got a Concussion which didn't heal properly and resulted on many symptoms like nonstop headache, Nausea, Memory loss and Mental fog.

Doctor told her that in order to heal the concussion the Brain should rest which mean no Reading, Writing and no video gaming.

It meant to her no reason to live.

Suicidal idea is quite common with traumatic brain injuries. It happen to one out of three.

She had those suicidal thoughts. and started to fear for her life.

After 34 Days she said either i will kill my self or turn this into a game.

Why a Game?

From Researches she know when we play game we tackles challenges with more creativity, determination, optimism and easily reach out for help.

She created a game named Jane the Concussion Slayer. This become her new Secret Identity. She called her sisters to play with her which is an easy way to ask for help and later her husband join them.

The bed guys in the game was any think that will trigger her symptoms and slow down the healing process. Things like bright light and crowded spaces.

A power-ups are then added to the game. which can be collected to make her feel good. such as cuddling her dog for 10 minutes or walking around the block.

She summarize her game by the following:

1- Adopt a secret identity.

2- Recruit your allies.

3-Battle the bed guys.

4- Activate the Power-Ups.

After a couple of days playing depression and anxiety went a way. It took her a full hard year to totally recover.

She wanted to share her experience with world and but it in a blog and renamed it to SUPER BETTER.

Many people start playing it adopting there own secret identity to fight there illness.

It helped them.

How the game helped them ?

People get stronger and happier after a traumatic events studies shows and they call it Post-Traumatic Growth.

People with post traumatic growth says:

1- My priorities have changed.
I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy.

2- I feel closer to my friend and my family.

3- I understand my self better.
I know who really am now.

4- I have new sense of meaning and purpose.

5- I'm better able to focus on my goals and dreams.


Those are the direct opposite to the top five regrets of deathbeds.

Traumatic event can unlock our ability to lead a life with fewer regrets.


How does it work? How do you get from Trauma to growth without going through Trauma?

There are four kinds of strength and resilience the contributes to Post-traumatic growth that you can do every day without needing a Trauma.

to get them and get the 7.5 minute you should start playing SUPER BETTER the game and complete the first four quests.

She begin showing the Audience the quests:

Quest number one:
you have to choose either to Stand up and take three steps or Make you hand like a fists and rise them over your head for 30 second.

Audience raise there hands.

This is physical resilience, which mean that your body can withstand more stress and heal it self faster.

"Don't Sit Still"

Quest number 2:
Snap your fingers exactly 50 times. Or Count back wards from 100 by 7.

Audience begin snapping there hands.

This is Mental resilience, research show that willpower is like muscle the more you train it the more stronger it get.

"Boost your willpower"

Quest number 3:
Find a window and look out of it and if your are out look in. Or Do a Google search for "Baby Animals"

This is Emotional resilience which is the ability to provoke a powerful positive emotion.

Three to one positive emotion Ratio is : is when you manage to experience three positive emotion for every negative emotion over a course of time. this will improve your health and your ability to tackle problems.

Quest number 4:

Shake someone hand for six second. Or Send someone Thank you by SMS, Email, Twitter or Facebook.

Audience shaking each other hand.

This is Social resilience. It means you got more strength from your friends.

Post Social resilience is gratitude.Touch is even better.


Shaking someone hand for six second dramatically raise the level of Oxytocin in your bloodstream. which is the trust hormone. It tend to let people like and want to help each other.


People who regularly boost these four types of resilience Physical, Mental, Emotional and Social Live 10 years longer than others.

78.1 Years is the average life expectancy in the US and UK.

research showed that you can add 10 years more if you boost your four resilience and did it right.

Small division showed that in the end you have 7.6 minute can be added to your life every hour if you do it right.

and in the end you should invest those 7.5 minute doing more of what you love Jane recommend playing games on them.  

Video Game Review - Portfolio # 3

Name: Thabet M. Al Sayari                                    Section: CMN

Name of Game: FieldRunners

Date of Release: Oct, 5^th 2008  Age Rating: 9+    Publisher: Subatomic Studios

What is the objective of this game?

Protect your base from  infiltration of enemy Troops.

What genre does this game fall under?

Tower defense and strategy.

How hard is this game?  Is it easy to learn how to play?

It begin easy so you can learn and become harder as you advance.

 Does it remain challenging as you advance?

Yes it does, because each level enemy units become stronger and faster, also your units can be upgraded and you have to choose the best ones.

What is your overall opinion of the game?  Why?

It’s very challenging because you have to think strategically how to hold the enemy.

Evaluate the graphics.

Very will drown graphics and maps.

Evaluate the sound.

Sound is realistic since it’s combination of real sound as well as mechanical sound.

Will this game hold up to repeated replaying?  Why / why not?

Yes it will hold. It have multiple maps and many units introduce as you advance.

How does this game compare to other games in the same genre?

It hold a top position since it have multiple maps and many units as well as the graphics and sounds for each level.

Give an overall rating for this game and explain why.

9 of 10. Because you have to be a real strategic thinker to finish it. 

Teacher Blog Address

http://lss1503.blogspot.ae/

LSC 1503 Introductory Video.

Welcome to my Blog for LSC 1503 - Listening and Speaking class.

Hi there,

My name is Thabet Al Sayari. I'm from the United Arab Emirates. Currently studying Information System Security at Abu Dhabi Man Collage.

This Blog is  for LSC 1503  Listening and Speaking class Taught  by Mr. Gregory Vrhovnik.


I will be posting mainly for this class.

Take Care all,