Peak Oil - Group Evaluation

The project
1. What area of study did you choose?  Why?

"What would happen if oil ran out today?" The future worst-case scenario. This topic was appealing to all of us especially Jacelyn because she watched a documentary about it. She then intrigued the rest of us by introducing the same documentary to all of us, and we all just agreed to do it. We also decided to do it because we wanted to do something that did not involve money and a lot of time.

2. What did your groups hope to achieve?  What was your proposed outcome?

We hoped to discourage the citizens of Nexus from living excessively, and instead encourage them to live sustainably with a main focus on oil-based products which we further narrowed down to plastic bags. We attempted to achieve this by creating a video followed by a presentation to be shown to secondary learners during an assembly.

3. How could you critically evaluate the success of your outcome?

We would have conducted discussions. We could also send out surveys and use the feedback to consolidate our evaluation.

4. What were your specific group roles and responsibilities?  How did you organise this?  Was the allocation effective?

Jacelyn - Shaper. Wrote video script.

Jia Yi - Secretary, technical person. Create video.

Wen Wen - Helped out wherever she could. Found videos, pictures, and edited script.

Mia - Taking down notes, summarised notes. Wrote and edited script.

5. Did your project have enough scope for every group member to play an active, full time part in the group work?  How could you improve this?

We had enough scope for everyone to play an active role in the group work as we allocated the tasks according to each of our capabilities. We all contributed ideas equally. It was pretty ideal so there weren't much room for improvements.

6. Was the workload manageable in the time frame given?

Some work was finished ahead of time, but there were some delays as well. 

Improvements: Set a timer to help us keep track of our time as we take a very long time to make decisions as we tried to consider everybody's opinion and it often lead to debates. 

7. How effective were your minutes and agendas?  How did they help you?  How could you improve them?

Our agendas were not very helpful, except to know what we did in the previous lesson. Our notes we found were more useful as it contained more details of what we had done the decisions we made.

Improvements: make our agendas like our notes.

The Perspectives

1. How did you gather information and opinions/viewpoints from a personal, national/local and global perspective?

We mostly researched on the internet. We used personal experiences to know what our target audience (our age group) wanted in the video.

2. How did/could you ensure you consider all these perspectives in your project?

We used a fish bone diagram to display all the perspectives being considered.

Improvement: Create a checklist of perspectives.

3. Would your outcome need to be accompanied by some additional explanation or elaboration?

Quite a bit. We needed to explain how our final product would produce our desired outcome and how our research relates to it.

4. How could you make sure you include cross-cultural views?

Compare our target audience (secondary learners) in different schools in Malaysia (National, Chinese, Tamil, International) and possibly other countries as well.