GNCT 13212

Coin for Thought On 13th of December for GNCT lecture we had another wonderful activity called as "Rupee for Thoughts". It was the last session for first year and it was interesting as usual. First and foremost our madam Mrs. Sarasi Senadeera asked us to put some coin to a purse and then pass it one to another. When madam tapped to table the person who hold the purse with coins had to take one coin from the purse and then talk about the memories of the year of the coin. Most of people who got the chance had year of 2004, 2013 and also 2016.    They shared their interesting memories with all class. Some of the memories are funny as well as sensitive. I didn't got a chance to express my memories in those years but if I had a chance I also had lot of memories to share. Some of them shared their grade five scholarship exam, ordinary level exam, advance level exam as well as unforgettable funny memories. After two hours we shared lot of memories in our l...

Culture Culture was the topic for this week's PPD session. First we had a discussion on culture, like what is culture and from what it is made of. Culture : the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. This is the dictionary meaning which was given to the word 'Culture'. Simply the Culture is  people's behavior, customary beliefs, social forms, material traits and norms found in human societies. For the activity of this we were divided into two groups by our madam. We had to create an activity according to a new culture. The activity should contain a name to the country, a specific language according to the culture, an anthem, a dance and a song. Madam gave us time to discuss with the group members and create those above mentioned aspects of our culture. We first discussed on the language. We took the word 'Houba Pipi' as the base words of our language. We took that words as the base words of ou...

Most Inspired Leader On this day for GNCT we had to learn about Leadership quality. There are many good leaders with leadership qualities. among them the most inspired leader of me is Mother Teresa. When I read the word servant leadership, Mother Teresa immediately popped up into my head. It’s hard to imagine a celebrity who left home at 18 to pursue a religious life, gave up all her worldly possessions except for the simplest necessities of life:    three identical outfits, a pair of sandals, and a tin washing pail to live and work among the poorest of the poor in a remote and unknown country. Back to the servant eldership definition, Greenleaf (1970) stated the origin of this theory that the leader has a need/desire to serve others so that they can develop themselves and therefore perform to meet organizational needs. In turn, those followers develop into servants themselves to help others in the organization which again helps the organization perform. Accor...

Personal Goals This week For GNCT we were asked to make a personal goals poster and present it at the class. As we were informed previous week we made colorful and attractive personal goals posters and prepared for present it in front of the class.  Majority of the students have made it very nicely. I also tried to make it nice and included all my personal goals in my poster in a proper way.  Considering my personal goals, they are complete the degree successfully and get a good job as a software engineer, build a nice house for my family, buy a new car, be a nice person and take care of parents etc.  I took a board and included my all personal goals in it in a nice way. I used some method to do a nice work such as drew pictures, wrote big letters, used color pens etc. As well as I present it in front of the class.

Standing on the Paper On this day for our GNCT lecture we had a game called sitting on a paper. First of all we were divided into five groups included seven or eight members for each group. For this game we were provided only one paper. We were asked to keep it on the floor and sitting on the paper all members of the group. Then we discussed our strategy and try to complete task properly. We had a good strategy and we followed it. As a result we came to last two winning groups. But unfortunately at the end we had to loose the game. Learning outcomes of this game are how to make a good strategy, communication of group members, resource management, follow given rules and regulations and time management. Finally two members of each group had to present their learning outcomes and how they face this task in front of the class.

Lava River On 25th of October for GNCT we had a task called Lava River. It is a game totally different with other games that we did previous days in GNCT. Mrs. Sarasi Senadeera divided us into four groups with each contains five members and we were asked to follow these rules.          keep our feet always on the stones that were provided us. there are lava around the stones and we can not step on lava. If we step on lava ew have to give up the game. we have to go from one bank to another bank of lava river by using stones. We have provided only four stones for each group and we have to manage given time to complete the task. Unfortunately we lost the game because we had no enough stones to cross the lava river but we got second place in this game.  Then we discussed learning outcomes and can mention those as making good stratergy, team working, managing time and limited resources and also tollerance. Not only those but also we...

Barter Puzzle On 11th of October for our GNCT lecture we had a activity called Burter Puzzle. Then we were divided into four groups and we were provided a calender paper, a pair of scissor, an envelop. then madam asked two members in each group come forward and cut their calender paper into 95 pieces without seeing the front picture in it.  We were instructed to take 10 pieces and exchange it with other groups and then we started to prepare our picture as much as possible. Within on that day we couldn't complete it so that we have to continue it on next day also. At the end we had some remaining parts  but when consider our group with others we were at the high position with our task. We completed it properly and tried to do our best with that picture and we learned lot of things through this task.  We discussed our strengthens and weaknesses on this task and we were asked to come front and explain our task and learning outcomes by using white board. Not o...

Egg Cover Last day in GNCT lecture there was game called “Egg Cover”. For that game we were only provided an egg, A4 sheets and seloteps. By this limited resources we had to make a safety cover for the egg. It should be more creative as well as it should have good strategy to protect the egg when it falls down in the high. First and foremost we need to make a good strategy for this egg cover. As a team we made a good plan for our egg cover. We came up with a good plan which has 6 corns and egg should be in the middle with more safety. It’s like a 3D design to protect the egg in all sides. First we cover the egg with papers and then we paste 6 corns in the 6 sides of the egg. As well as we filled the corns with papers to get more protection. As a result we made a nice and strategic egg cover for this game. It is very attractive also. After finishing our egg cover we go outside and throw egg cover with egg inside it from up to floor. Only one group was miss their opportunity because i...

WSO2 Workshop on Emerging Technology On 3rd July 2018 there was a Workshop for all Software Engineering students of University of Kelaniya. The workshop on Emerging Technology was conducted by Mr.Srinath Perera VP Research WSO2. Mr.Srinath Perera presented much about the Emerging Technology and he clarify our doubts on this topic. There were all 4th year students, 3rd year students, 2nd year students and 1st year students for the workshop. Mrs.Sarasi Senadheera, our GNCT lecturer has organized it very well. Mr.Srinath Perera presented about main criteria of Emerging Technology such as History of Trends, Gartner Hype Cycle, Carlota perez framework, Key Trends, Current Trends, API, Analytics and AI, IoT, Conversational Agents, Blockchain, Sharing Economy, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Quantum Computing, 3D printing and so on. Gartner Hype Cycle Key Trends Current API Analytics and AI IoT Bots Emerging Blockchain Sharing Economy Augmented and Vi...

Expert Game. Last week there was a game, called "expert game" for GNCT lecture. We were put into five groups and we had to select a product or service which can produce by experties of our group members. As a result our group selected SE Art Academy which teach aesthetics subjects. There are very qualified lecturers in our academy who can teach arts, music and also dancing. Some of our lectures teaches playing music instruments as well. They all are visiting lecturers because we haven't proper place to doing our classes. Our lectures (group members) are Nabeel, Naveen, Kavindu, Minsah, Pragashraj, Udith, Sandali and Sachindra. Other groups also selected some specified product or service within their capabilities. Group number 2 selected a smart restaurant service which provide breakfast, lunch, dinner and food packets. All of them tried to do their product as much as posdible. Other three groups also selected dancing academy, trasport service and so on.  ...