Reflection on Presentation

Overall, i felt that i had a good presentation. I knew my content well and i did not stuttered. However, some things that i have to take note of will be my body language. I need to realize that I tend to sway from side to side. This is will be distracting to the my target audience. It may be a good way to try to maintain eye contact with all of the them. However, I feel that it may be better if we focus on a few people instead of trying to focus on maintaining eye contact with everyone.
I appreciate the feedbacks as they can help me improve on my presentation skills and allow me to identify my strengths and weaknesses. This way, i will be able to give better presentations and also to help my teammates in future. One last thing that i have to take note of is the frequent use of fillers. This is something that i have to get rid of.

outline for critical relflection

The role of peer and tutor feedback.

What happened? Describe the experience

I wrote a reader response essay. I received both formal and informal comments on my writing blog. Apart from that, I had to comment on my group mate’s blog post too. This is something that I have not experienced in a while. I had my reservations and was very conscious when giving my feedback.

Why/ how did it happen? What factors contributed? How do you feel about it?

I had quite a few grammatical and format errors and there were certain unclear sentences. At times, my expression of certain ideas will be misunderstood.

I am personally one who do not like to re- read my essay. I felt uncomfortable on the thought that my peers are going to give feedback on what I wrote. 

What is your new interpretation of the experience? What is the significance?

This experience is somewhat like a reality check for me. In the past, I did not like peer feedback. However, this will help to improve my language and that is the purpose.

What did you learn about yourself and the others?

I learnt that everyone makes mistakes and this is something that can be avoided by re- reading your essay. I am one who is able to provide content but often, my points are not phrased properly and this affects reader’s understanding on my

It is easy to spot other people’s mistake. In order to improve, we have to be frank

What will you do as a result of this experience? How will you use it to inform your future?

I am more conscious when I write my essay now. I will re-read what I have wrote to check the flow of my essay. Also, I will check on my grammar in the essay.

When writing my essays now, i will always think about it as an academic writing. I will also make a conscious effort to avoid using 1st person

Problem Structured Essay Draft 3

The increasing use of social media has brought about many problems, one of them being cyberbullying. Singapore is ranked second amongst nations of cyberbullies (Family & Life, 2014). It is reported that one out of four secondary school students has admitted to bullying their friends and one out of five primary school students has been bullied online (Tan, 2014).Through the use of social media, there is an increasing number of cyber bullying cases among youth aged between 8 and 17 in Singapore. This is extremely detrimental to the Singaporean youth’s development due to the psychological effects that are brought about from cyberbullying. The Media Literacy Council (MLC) and SingTel have both launched cyber wellness programmes to combat cyberbullying. The issue on cyber bullying among youths in Singapore has to be solved to prevent more harm to the growth and mental health of the youth with the help of Singtel, Touch organization, MLC and the Singapore law.

Cyberbullying includes sending unpleasant photographs and messages by mobile phone or online messaging. Deleting a person’s name from a group or not replying to that person’s messages on social networking sites can (also?) be a form of bullying as it can be seen as ostracization (MLC,2015). It is important to combat cyberbullying as youths who are cyber bullied often suffer mentally. They will face lasting emotional damages like depression, loneliness, unhappiness and poor sleep (Caudle, 2015). These problems could disrupt youths’ daily lives, causing them to grow up to be people who shun   interaction with others, and this might greatly affect their school lives, academics and future career. To make matters worse, the adverse effects from cyberbullying are often not shown explicitly by the victims. For the bullies, the continuous abuse on others could lead to them to become more aggressive and more narcissistic. This might also hinder the development of these perpetrators as they are growing up to becoming people who are not appreciative of others.

One solution that organizations in Singapore have implemented is the use of cyber wellness programmes to educate both youths and their parents about the harmful effects of cyber bullying. MLC has launched a site together with Facebook called the Bullying Prevention Centre (Asiaone, 2015), which offers guidance to the bullies and the bullied. The aim is to ensure that interactions online are relevant and user-friendly for the youths. School students will be able to report suspected cases of bullying online and learn how to differentiate signs of cyber bullying. Also, SingTel has come together with TOUCH to create an application called “notAnoobie”. It allows parents to keep track of their children activities on the internet and to protect their children from online risks. There are also stories of victims from cyber bullying on the website. “NotAnoobie” aims to educate and empower parents with information on what their children are doing. This is important as parents play a huge role in the upbringing of their children.

The two examples mentioned are both cyber wellness programmes organized by the relevant organizations. Cyber wellness programmes are effective in combating cyber bullying as they empowers netizens with information that they may not have known previously. The cyber wellness programmes heightens the awareness of people and allows them to identify, prevent and report possible cases of cyberbullying. This is effective as people learn about the consequences of their actions and they will reconsider their actions. People may be able to prevent themselves from getting bullied as they are able to recognize signs of cyberbullying and then stopping it themselves. However, due to the anonymity of the users on social networks, bullies are able to repeatedly post harsh and cruel comments or even cyberbully without being caught if they are not reported. It is difficult for social media platforms to constantly monitor their users and it is difficult to establish a common standard to distinguish between what is cyber bullying and what is not. The programmes may be effective to some degree, but different bullies have different motivations to cyberbully (Varjas, Talley, Meryers, Parris & Cutts, 2010). The bullies may be motivated by anger or entertainment. They may even do it to enhance their social status in school. Educating netizens on cyber bulling may not be the solution as cyber bullies have different types of motivations. Cyber wellness programmes only help to curb cyberbullying of certain type of motivations.

Another solution is the passing of the anti- harassment law in Singapore by the parliament. The new law aims to protect the people in Singapore from the “social scourge” (Shanmugam, 2014). Harassment in the online sphere like cyberbullying is included in the anti- harassment law. This is effective as victims of cyber bullying now have legal protection. Moreover, people will be deterred from cyber bullying due to the possible implications of the law. This should lead to a reduction in cases of cyberbullying. However, as mentioned above, it is difficult to constantly monitor social media and the protectors of law are unable to cover the whole social media to keep track of these perpetrators.

Cyberbullying is an important issue that Singapore has to solve. The above solutions are effective only to a certain extent as both aim to educate and then deter people from cyberbullying. With the rise of the status of social media, there is an increase in the importance of handphones and computers to youths. It will be difficult to take these things away from them now. Therefore, it is important for parents to enforce rules at home. Meanwhile, policies by schools, Singapore law and the organizations like MLC and Touch has to continue to aid in resolving cyberbullying effectively (Kraft & Wang, 2009).

Reference

E. M. Kraft and J. Wang (2009). Effectiveness of cyber bullying prevention strategies: A study on students’ perspectives. Cyber Crime Journal.com. Retrieved from http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/KraftwangJulyIJCC2009.pdf

Family and Life (2014). Singapore is the Second Highest Nation of Cyberbullies. Retrieved from http://familyandlife.sg/Nurture/2014/03/Singapore_Second_Highest_Nation_Cyberbullies

Facebook, Media Literacy Council launch site to combat bullying. (2015). Asiaone. Retrieved from http://news.asiaone.com/news/science-and-tech/facebook-media-literacy-council-launch-site-combat-cyber-bullying

J. Tan (2014). 1 in 4 secondary students ‘admits to cyber bullying’. The Straits Times. Retrieved from http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/1-4-secondary-students-admits-cyber-bullying-20140714

K. Shanmugam (2014). Anti- harassment laws to fight ‘social scourge’. Today Online. Retrieved from http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/anti-harassment-laws-fight-social-scourge?page=1

K. Varjas, J. Talley, J.Meyers, L. Parris and H. Cutts (2010). High School Students’ Perceptions of Motivations of Cyberbullying: An exploratory study. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941365/

Essay Draft 2

The increasing use of social media has brought about many problems, one of them being cyber bullying. Singapore is ranked second in the nation of cyberbullies. (Family & Life, 2014). It is reported that one out of four secondary school students have admitted to bullying their friends and one out of five primary school students have been bullied online (Tan, 2014).Through the use of social media, there is an increasing number of cyber bullying cases among youth aged between 8 and 17 in Singapore. This is extremely detrimental to the Singaporean youth’s development due to the psychologically effects that is brought about from cyberbullying. The Media Literacy Council (MLC) and SingTel has both launched cyber wellness programme to combat cyberbullying. The issue on cyber bullying among youths in Singapore has to be solved to prevent more harm to the growth and mental health of the youth.

Cyber bullying includes sending unpleasant photographs and messages by mobile phone or online messaging. Deleting a person name from a group or not replying to people’s messages on social networking sites can be a form of bullying as it can be seen as ostracization. (MLC,2015) It is important to combat cyberbullying as youths who are cyber bullied often suffer mentally. They will face lasting emotional damages like depression, loneliness, unhappiness and poor sleep. (Caudle, 2015). These problems will disrupt youths’ daily lives, causing them to grow up to be people who shun away from interaction with others and this will greatly affect their lives, career and academics. To make matters worse, the adverse effects from cyberbullying are often not shown explicitly by the victims. The victims will grow up to become more introvert, avoiding people due to the lack of confidence and the fear of being bullied. For the bullies, the continuous abuse on others will lead to them becoming more aggressive and more narcissistic. This will also hinder the development of the perpetrators as they are growing up to becoming people who are not appreciative of others.

One solution that organizations in Singapore has implemented is the use of cyber wellness programmes to educate both youths and their parents about the harmful effects of cyber bullying. MLC has launched a site together with Facebook called the Bullying Prevention Centre. (Hui Zhen, 2015) .It is a site that offers guidance to those the bullies and the bullied. The aim is to ensure that interactions online is relevant and user-friendly for the youths. People will be able to report suspected cases of bullying online and learn how to differentiate signs of cyber bullying. SingTel has come together with TOUCH to create an application called “notAnoobie”. It allows parents to keep track of their children activities on the internet and protect their children from online risks. There are also stories of victims from cyber bullying. “NotAnoobie” aims to educate and empower parents with information on what their children are doing. This is important as parents play a huge role in the upbringing of youths.

The two examples mentioned are both cyber wellness programmes organized by the relevant organizations. Cyber wellness programmes are effective in combating cyber bullying as it empowers people with information that they may not have known previously. It heightens the awareness of people and it allows them to identify, prevent and report possible cases of cyberbullying. This is effective as people know about the consequences of their actions and they will reconsider their actions. People are able to prevent themselves from getting bullied as they are able to recognize signs of cyberbullying and then stopping it themselves. However, due to the anonymity the users on social networks, youths are able to repeatedly post harsh and cruel comments or even cyberbully without being caught if they are not reported. It is difficult for social media platforms to constantly monitor their users and it is difficult to establish a common standard to distinguish between what is cyber bullying and what is not. The programmes may be effective to some, but different youths have different motivations to cyberbully. (Varjas, Talley, Meryers, Parris and Cutts, 2010). These people may be motivated by anger or entertainment. Some youths may even do it to enhance their social status in school. Youths may be educated about cyber bullying, however, it may not be the solution as cyber bullies have different types of motivations. Cyber wellness programmes only helps to curb cyberbullying of certain type of motivations.

Another solution is passing of the anti- harassment laws in Singapore by the parliament. The new law aims to protect the people in Singapore from the “social scourge” (Shanmugam, 2014). Harassment in the online sphere like cyberbullying is included in the anti- harassment law. This is effective as victims of cyber bullying now have legal protection. Moreover, people will be deterred from cyber bullying due to the possible implications with the law. This will lead to a reduction in cases of cyberbullying. However, as mentioned above, it is difficult to constantly monitor social media and the protectors of law are unable to cover the whole social media to keep track of these perpetrators.

Cyberbullying is an important issue that Singapore has to solve. The above solutions are effective only to a certain extent as both aims to educate and then deter people from cyberbullying. However, the most effective way to prevent people from cyberbullying and being cyberbullied would be to take these electronic devices away from there. With the rise of the status of social media, there is an increase in the importance of handphones and computers to youths. It will be difficult to take these things away from them now. Therefore, it is important for parents to enforce rules at home. Meanwhile, policies by schools, Singapore and the organizations like MLC has to continue to aid in resolving cyberbullying effectively. (Kraft and Wang, 2009)

Reference

Ellen M. Kraft and Jinchang Wang (2009). Effectiveness of Cyber bullying Prevention Strategies: A Study on Students’ Perspectives. Retrieved from http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/KraftwangJulyIJCC2009.pdf

Family and Life (2014). Singapore is the Second Highest Nation of Cyberbullies. Retrieved from http://familyandlife.sg/Nurture/2014/03/Singapore_Second_Highest_Nation_Cyberbullies

Hui Zhen (2015). Facebook, Media Literacy Council launch site to combat bullying. Retrieved from http://news.asiaone.com/news/science-and-tech/facebook-media-literacy-council-launch-site-combat-cyber-bullying

Janice Tan (2014). 1 in 4 secondary students ‘admits to cyber bullying’. The Straits Times. Retrieved from http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/1-4-secondary-students-admits-cyber-bullying-20140714

K Shanmugam (2014). Anti- harassment laws to fight ‘social scourge’. Retrieved from http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/anti-harassment-laws-fight-social-scourge?page=1

Kris Varjas, Jasmaine Talley, Joel Meyers, Leandra Parris and Haley Cutts (2010). High School Students’ Perceptions of Motivations of Cyberbullying: An exploratory Study. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941365/

An Influential Event

An influential event.

An influential event that has shaped my life and who I am now is when I was nominated to as the President of the Student Council in Secondary School. I was in the student council since secondary one and I realized that I have a strong interest in events management. I decided to try out as a member of the executive committee. After a series of interviews and voting, I am fortunate and honored to be nominated as the President of the sixth student council.

I have become someone who is more confident after taking up this role as a president in the student council. I have to speak in front of the whole school regularly and I have to be confident enough to speak to people whom I do not really know personally. I have also learned about the importance of being decisive and being able to take up the responsibility of certain decisions in life. I have to take responsibility of the things that is proposed by the student council. Therefore, I have to constantly check on my members to make sure that things were going on the right track.

From this event, I have become someone who is more people oriented. I have also gained valuable leadership skills which enables me to work better both as a leader and team player. The most important takeaway is how I have adopted a more positive outlook on life. I have encountered many difficult times. However, the most important thing to do is to be more optimistic. This way, you will then be able to overcome the difficulties that you are facing. Things will only change if you look at it from a more positive angle. 

Essay Draft 1

The increasing use of social media has brought about many problems, one of them being cyber bullying. Singapore is ranked second in the nation of cyberbullies. (Family & Life, 2014). It is reported that one out of four secondary school students have admitted to bullying their friends and one five primary school students have been bullied online (Tan, 2014).Through the use of social media, there is an increasing number of cyber bullying cases among youth aged between 8 and 17 in Singapore. This is extremely detrimental to the Singaporean youth’s development due to the psychologically effects that is brought about from cyberbullying. The Media Literacy Council (MLC) and SingTel has both launched cyber wellness programme to combat cyberbullying. The issue on cyber bullying among youths in Singapore has to be solved to prevent more harm to the growth and mental health of the youth.

Cyber bullying includes sending unpleasant photographs and messages by mobile phone or online messaging. Deleting a person name from a group or not replying to people’s messages on social networking sites can be a form of bullying as it can be seen as ostracization. (MLC,2015) It is important to combat cyberbullying as youths who are cyber bullied often suffer mentally. They will face lasting emotional damages like depression, loneliness, unhappiness and poor sleep. (Caudle, 2015). These problems will disrupt youths’ daily lives and it will cause them to grow up to be people who shun away interaction with others and this will greatly affect their lives, career and academics. To make matters worse, the adverse effects from cyberbullying are often not shown explicitly by the victims. The victims will grow up to become more introvert, avoiding people due to the lack of confidence and the fear of being bullied. For the bullies, the continuous abuse on others will lead to them becoming more aggressive and more narcissistic. This will also hinder the development of the perpetrators as they are growing up to becoming people who are not appreciative of others.

One solution that organizations in Singapore has implemented is the use of cyber wellness programmes to educate both youths and their parents about the harmful effects of cyber bullying. MLC has launched a site together with Facebook called the Bullying Prevention Centre. (Hui Zhen, 2015) .It is a site that offers guidance to those the bullies and the bullied. The aim is to ensure that interactions online is relevant and user-friendly for the youths. People will be able to report suspected cases of bullying online and learn how to differentiate signs of cyber bullying. SingTel has come together with TOUCH to create an application called “notAnoobie”. It allows parents to keep track of their children activities on the internet and protect their children from online risks. There are also stories of victims from cyber bullying. “NotAnoobie” aims to educate and empower parents with information on what their children are doing. This is important as parents play a huge role in the upbringing of youths.

The two examples mentioned are both cyber wellness programmes organized by the relevant organizations. Cyber wellness programmes are effective in combating cyber bullying as it empowers people with information that they may not have known previously. It heightens the awareness of people and it allows them to identify, prevent and report possible cases of cyberbullying. This is effective as people know about the consequences of their actions and they will reconsider their actions. People are able to prevent themselves from getting bullied as they are able to recognize signs of cyberbullying and then stopping it themselves. However, due to the anonymity the users on social networks, youths are able to repeatedly post harsh and cruel comments or even cyberbully without being caught if they are not reported. It is difficult for social media platforms to constantly monitor their users and it is difficult to establish a common standard to distinguish between what is cyber bullying and what is not.

Another solution is passing of the anti- harassment laws in Singapore by the parliament. The new law aims to protect the people in Singapore from the “social scourge” (Shanmugam, 2014). Harassment in the online sphere like cyberbullying is included in the anti- harassment law. This is effective as victims of cyber bullying now have legal protection. Moreover, people will be deterred from cyber bullying due to the possible implications with the law. This will lead to a reduction in cases of cyberbullying. However, as mentioned above, it is difficult to constantly monitor social media and the protectors of law are unable to cover the whole social media to keep track of these perpetrators.

Cyberbullying between youths is an important issue that Singapore has to solve. The above solutions are effective only to a certain extent as both aims to educate and then deter people from cyberbullying. However, the most effective way to prevent people from cyberbullying and being cyberbullied would be to take these electronic devices away from there. With the rise of the status of social media, there is an increase in the importance of handphones and computers to youths. It will be difficult to take these things away from them now. Therefore, it is important for parents to enforce rules at home. Meanwhile, policies by schools, Singapore and the organizations like MLC has to continue to aid in resolving cyberbullying effectively. (Kraft and Wang, 2009)

Reference

Ellen M. Kraft and Jinchang Wang (2009). Effectiveness of Cyber bullying Prevention Strategies: A Study on Students’ Perspectives. Retrieved from http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/KraftwangJulyIJCC2009.pdf

Family and Life (2014). Singapore is the Second Highest Nation of Cyberbullies. Retrieved from http://familyandlife.sg/Nurture/2014/03/Singapore_Second_Highest_Nation_Cyberbullies

Janice Tan (2014). 1 in 4 secondary students ‘admits to cyber bullying’. The Straits Times. Retrieved from http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/1-4-secondary-students-admits-cyber-bullying-20140714

K Shanmugam (2014). Anti- harassment laws to fight ‘social scourge’. Retrieved from http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/anti-harassment-laws-fight-social-scourge?page=1

Hui Zhen (2015). Facebook, Media Literacy Council launch site to combat bullying. Retrieved from http://news.asiaone.com/news/science-and-tech/facebook-media-literacy-council-launch-site-combat-cyber-bullying

Essay Plan

Discuss a problem arising from the use of social media and its impact on individuals and/or society in a particular country. Identify existing solutions and propose possible new measures that could be implemented to address that problem. Be sure to integrate information from appropriate sources into your essay.

Main Problem: Through the use of social media, there is an increasing number in cyber bullying in Singapore. Singapore is the 2^nd highest nation of cyberbullies. 3 out of 10 re bullied.

Affected target group: Primary and Secondary School children. Youth between the ages 8 and 17

Agent of change: Parents, Media literacy council, Touch cyber wellness, network operators like SingTel

Solution 1: SingTel and Touch Cyber Wellness have come out with Singapore’s first cyber- wellness application called “notAnoobie”

Evaluation 1:  This application helps to provide one-stop information source to help parents monitor and protect their children from online risks. Parents can keep track of their children’s online involvement in aspects. Parents can help to educate their children on their

Solution 2: Singapore parliament has recently approved an anti- harassment law

Thesis: Through the use of social media, there is an increasing number of cyber bullying cases among youth aged between 8 and 17 in Singapore.  Singapore is ranked second in the nation of cyberbullies. (Family & Life, 2014). Singapore is one of the rare countries where there is a greater rate of bullying online than offline.

http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/view.php?cisloclanku=2014012101&article=5

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/5-tips-how-you-can-protect-your-kid-cyber-bullying-20140

http://www.medialiteracycouncil.sg/online-safety/Pages/cyber-bullying.aspx

http://familyandlife.sg/Nurture/2014/03/Singapore_Second_Highest_Nation_Cyberbullies

https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/expert-advice/fresh-takes-on-dealing-with-cyberbullying.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/1-4-secondary-students-admits-cyber-bullying-20140714

http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/singapore-criminalizes-cyber-bullying-and-stalking/