Standing On The Paper & Lava River

               After out second semester we had ppd section with great team work activity which gave lots of experience and intrest in personel development section. At the first day of ppd session of our second semester ppd madam gave two activity the first one she gave is Standing On Paper and second activity is Lava River .I like to share something about it

STANDING ON PAPER

In this Activity at first mam seperated us into three individual teams which is consists of 7 members but only my team consists 8 member iam in group one. Mam gave a newspapers one sided size paper and said to when she gives command "IN" all the group members should be inside the paper that she gave and when she say "OUT" all should stand out side the paper and the team which is not obeying her command will be out of game she said and also she said we should stand on the paper without tearing it. She gave two minutes and said discuss how to stand on paper.

                               HA HA that would be reaction because we also not took serious why we should discuss to stand on paper which is comfortabily enough for 8 members thats right after this mam said is shocked. I think you have guessed mam said to fold that paper into half and asked to stand their. like wise if a team did it correctly then the paper again again asked to fold and the team which stand correctly as much as possible it will be the winner and the third group was the winner in this activity. Our team could not stand on.


The mistakes which the groups made was:

• Didn't had the correct strategy.
• Didn't expect that our madam told us to fold the paper.
• haven't proper communication.
• Didn't use the time that mam gave to plan.
• Didn't considered about team mates comfort.

What We Learnt From This Activity??:

• We want to have a proper strategy before we going to start a work.
• We should ready for unexpected.
• We want to communicate clearly.
• We want to be alert at any time and ready to face.
• We should use the time correctly with team mates.
• We should consider all people in the team their comfort what the can.

the thing we learned is teamwork should have good plan.

LAVA RIVER

After the activity Standing On The paper on that day we did Lava River as second activity.

Mam changed some members between teams again maintained three teams with seven members and my team remind 8 members.She gave 4 paper plates for every team and said to all members of the team should cross the two lines with using that 4 plates only should not touch on the floor and we should not miss the plates.The distance between two lines aproximatley 5m to 6m.

We just planned to every one use two plates to cross so two members cross the river and one bring bring two plates of the team by droping other one. Unfortunatley our team lost two plates because of floor stickyness.




After crossing one side mam set a time limit of 5 minutes and said to cross the river by team.We should not understand at first she said all members should be in touch cannot go individually and marked some points on floor if we touch that it will be bonus she said. 
   The problem is we only my team had two plates and other teams had their full 4 plates.we asked it is not possible give us 2 plates mam strickly said no and i asked "mam can we tear 2 plates into 4 and use" mam said no. So we are failed. After this mam said why dont u argued with me for to tear haa haa.
     In this activity no team went to the other side of the river with in time..

What we learned is:

• It is very easy to move individually and hard to move as team.
• Wants to clear the idea of the instructions carefully.
• Resource management.
• Time management.
• Leadership quality.
• Never ever give up until reach the target.
• All the time aware of external factors(because of stickiness of floor we lossed 2 plates)

On that day these two activity gave lots of enjoyment and trained how to work as team and what should do and what should not. Realy good experience...

UNIVERSITRY OF KELANIYA

UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA

University of Kelaniya is one of state universities of Sri Lanka  located in city of kelaniya.

University of Kelaniya established in 1875 as Vidyalankara Pirivena by Rathmalane Sri Dhammaloka Thero.  It became University of Kelaniya in 1978. 

There are 7 faculties in the University. Those are

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Huminity

Faculty of Social Science

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of commerce and management

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Faculty of Computing and Technology

As well as there are lot of places in the university.

Faculty of Science

The faculty started in 1967 with Prof.Charles Dahanayake as the Dean of the faculty. The faculty award B.Sc Degrees. When we enter the faculty we can see  the main building called LOBIYA. Then main ground, IT center, Dharmaloka Hall and Auditorium.

Dharmaloka Hall

 Dharmaloka Hall is the main hall of the University of Kelaniya. Many students can sit at once in the hall. Stage Dramas, musical shows, as well as various shows show in there.

Library

The library has moved to the present building in 1977. It is open to everyone in the university. Now there are thousands of books in the library. Anyone can refer books. As well as there are past papers for every subjects for every courses of previous years in the library.It has book collection of over 239800 books.it normally open from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm.

 

Medical center

Medical Center is an important place of the university. There are a lot of qualified and professional doctors to help students and others when they get various illnesses. If they  cannot help they send them to the nearest hospital as soon as possible. Doctors and others in the Medical Center always ready to give their services.  And it is open from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm.

 PLAY GROUND

University has 3 grounds. This is main ground

 

    THESE ARE FEW BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN MY UNIVERSITY IF YOU VISIT YOU WILL SEE LOT......

What I learn from PPD

                                 What I Learn From PPD

               Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employ ability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. Personal development takes place over the course of a person's entire life. Not limited to self-help, the concept involves formal and informal activities for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, life coach or mentor. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations.

Personal Progress helps you develop values that prepare you and mold your character so that you can fulfill your divine potential.



 PPD develop and improve key academic and organizational skills needed to achieve academic goals, as well as to increase self- awareness about my own learning.

• Time Management
• Presentation Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Improving Communication Skills
• Managing Academic stress  
• Improving self-awareness
• Improving self-knowledge
• Improving skills and learning new ones
• 
• Developing strengths or talents
• Improving a career
• Improving wealth or social status
• Fulfilling aspirations
• Executing personal development plans
• Improving social relations
• Improving  leadership

  
                  

PAPER TOWER

PAPER TOWER

In every PPD class we are doing new things to develop and improve our soft skills. paper tower is a team work section i have done with full involvement.Miss Sarasi grouped us in to 3 and provided each team with 12 sheets of papers,a scissor,a sellotape and challenged to built a tower from papers within 40 minutes.All the groups went outside and started to make the tower.As usual our miss Sarasi didn't allow us to speak in Sinhala or Tamil as it improves our speaking ability in english.She walked from group to group observing our work and reminding us to speak in English.

WHEN WORKING IN THE TASK

At the time mam gave task we hurried up and went outside to build the tower but we didnt planned.i also dont have any plan to build only some of them got plan and started to build .we have targeted only to build highest how to make our tower more higher than others.but when we started build at some point of time all realised basement should be important.

Finally all three groups managed to make towers which were able to stand on the ground.

Miss Sarasi asked us to leave the towers for 10 minutes and then she blew at each tower to check their balance but unfortunately all the towers felt down.She gave marks for the balance,height and rigidity of the tower.

WHAT WE REALISED

When we engage in a group activity we should listen to others ideas, we should discuss and come to  a decision which might not be your idea but still you have to respect because it is the decision of the majority.We should help each other.There should be a person to lead the group.All team members must engage in the activity.And very specially we should have a plan.

If I mention about the weaknesses all the groups had no any plan at the beginning. No one discussed with the group how to make this challenge a success.We should have discussed how many papers to use at the base and to increase the height.We all only thought about increasing the height of the tower.And another thing was we didn't have a leader to guide us.The first thing we should have done after discussing was to built the basement of the tower.For all the works, first we should lay a good foundation.We should have share the work within the group to save time.All the team members should committed to the work.Communication within the team members also plays a great roll. 

We Learned

• Thinking
• Planning
• Creativity
• Decision making skills
• Work as a group
• Solve Problems
• Use common language English 
• Strategy
• Leadership

 

The roll of a team member is very important to make this kind of challenges.In future we have to work in many many people,many fields and in different environments. So we should improve our soft skills to face those.

At the end of this session we learned lot of things and best part is we enjoyed lot and chatted lot.but when we working in a work we should concentrate on the work and do the best we can. 

WHAT IS PPD?

Personal Progress Development

Personal Progress helps you develop values that prepare you and mold your character so that you can fulfill your divine potential.The potential that this professional must contain in himself to face the challenges in his field is immense. Hence he or she needs to have a progress and development in their own personality and this cannot be achieved in a fortnight.

What could the pathway include?

Your Personal Progress Pathway would include development of your understanding, skills and experience in some or all of the following areas:

• Using and developing your strengths
• Developing self-reflection and personal understanding
• Becoming more independent
• Improving communication with others
• Developing confidence and self esteem
• Understanding others
• Increasing involvement in leisure and community activities
• Accessing work experience
• Developing employability skills and understanding of careers
• Studying and gaining qualifications
• Exploring creative subjects
• Making plans linked with your goals.

The course module 'Personal Progress and Development' or simply PPD is a session that deals with the soft skills of a young professional in the making, non-academic wise.

what we get from ppd?

1. Self Confindence
2. Time Management
3. Dicision Making
4. Planning Skills
5. How to write appropriate email,letter,CV
6. How to manage stress  
7. Team Working
8. Communication Skills
9. Team Working
10. Presentation Skills

To develop that main ability and to communicate correctly and to respect our team members and to listen them, the PPD session is the most important part in our life .! 

With the session PPD we learn how to help people when they need and also we get the knowledge when people need help and what are the different ways we can help them. ppd is a good session that we can develop our personal skills with enjoyable way :)