Group 1 gives feedback to group 2

"Due to all the MindTrek buzz a little late. But better late than never!" - Joe

Feedback - pt.1

The group 2 opened their presentation with an awesome rap video, that made us think that this lesson could actually be fun... and it was! We wish the video could've been longer, since seeing their creation, we are well aware of their hip-hop skills.

The seriously academic part was consisting of several well written and well spoken talks on topics as broad as history of communication to specific TV media formats. The first talk of all was Teppo's history lesson, that even though he tried hard to squeeze all the important information to such short presentation, failed to cover some major milestones of humankind communication.

Then the definition of newspaper was brilliant. We were really glad to have learned the categorization, and it proved the group really did their homework well. In the end of the second talk, we were engaged to the presentation by series of well put question and discussion was opened. This however wasn't much of an issue at all, and the Group 2 can be glad for having such active audience.

Given group task

"Explore news as an effective media"

"Make your own report given six keywords. Define a target group, Select type of news media to publish your news, present your news to the class, give explanation" 10-15 minutes.

Where 10-15 minutes proved to be an obstacle to otherwise very nice and creative task. Luckily we all have managed to deliver, but I believe we all felt 5 more minutes would have proven very useful. 

This is a good warning for the following groups: If you have a group task, think twice about how much time will your audience need! Try to go through the tasks yourselves.

Feedback - pt.2

We have especially enjoyed the outsourced contents and the richness of the presentation. There was enough examples to understand all the media formats described. Totally a way to go! And even better, good deal of those examples were funny, and did not let us slip off the hook.

We however concluded that for this specific topic, the research and factual value of the talk could have been deeper. All in all, we yet again struggled to get many new information, that we couldn't think of ourselves. We would've endorsed more information on the technical, ethical and business side of the industry as well as having more theory included.

What was a crucial mistake made though, is that there was nothing on the negative side of media. No information of negative sides of the Code of conduct, no information on censorship and monopolisation of the media, and no positive insight to the democratization of media, whether blogs or microblogging and social platforms. Yet again the group can be thankful of the brilliant audience that saved the day on that topic, as well as Cai on censorship.

Organization flow could have been better, but we are all learning and we struggled too.

Conclusion:

Great and fun presentation! Missed few things. Very enjoyable.

Marked 4

Pros:
Lots of information
Very fun, great audience
Lovely interactive examples
Good balance between hilarious and academic

Cons:
Didn't go factually deep enough at some points
Short time for the task
Missed few major important topics in the end