SE/2015/052 PPD

My first visit to WSO2 Thankful to Ms. Sarasi Senadheera, who is the lecturer of our PPD session we had the great opportunity of participating such an interesting session at WSO2. Including me, for most of us that was the very first visit to IT Company and it was very important as undergraduate of Software engineering. We were little bit earlier for the session and we had the chance of getting adjust for the company environment. It was a nice place with lot of nice people. The session was well organized and when we entered the conductors have prepared with informative presentation. As well as they gave us notebooks and pens as memorials of session. The attitude of the company towards their employees was well shown for all of us. The session was about introducing us a new career path of IT field. “The technical writing…” Basically the idea of the technical writing is about writing documentations about user manuals, user guidance and etc.  According to...

Facing for an interview  PPD we were taught how to face an interview with all confident. There are some good points that we have focused as it can become very useful at a situation like this. To pass the interview and to make the interviewers impressed on ourselves we have to focus on those points. By following these points we can be more self-confident at the moment. We should have done a little bit of researching about the company and the interviewers as well in terms of make them impressed on ourselves. Knowing their mission, interaction with clients and employees will be helpful to get familiar with them and to the company environment. We should imagine the situation at the interview before the interview and we should prepare ourselves to fit to the curtain situation. Be ready to answer for common questions that can be asked ( especially why we fit to the company and why you think that the most suitable person for this job is yourself). And also by practice wi...

Story making (group activity) In this activity, our mainly focused on the fact that, how much communication is affect to the efficiency of the activity. The activity was we were divided into 3 groups and we were asked to face back to the white board. Every group a marker pen was given and we should write a story but a group member can only write one word at one time. And there were 4 rounds. At that time we were so excited about the activity. One by one in our group went to the board and write the story. When my chance arrives and when I came to the board I was shocked to see it. It was a total nonsense. After all rounds completed, we red our story, at the very beginning it was very fun read all those nonsenses. But after our lecture explained how communication matters to a work, we realized what was wrong with the stories. It was a fun activity although it doesn’t take much time.

Rocket making activity We started our second semester first activity in PPD very excitingly as we know something interesting is coming up. Our lecture divided us to 2 groups and we got 6 papers in Yellow color. We were asked to make paper rockets as much as we can in 20 minutes. First of all we got 3 minutes to discuss about the task and to come up with ideas to make the task more efficient. Then the lecture marked a 10 feet distance on the floor. We had to make our rocket fly across the 10 feet distance. We did some trial rounds and came up with 2 sizes which can possibly cross the marked distance. Some of our members (including me) have not known how to make rockets. So for learning process it took a considerable amount of time. When the time is over we could only make 29 planes. Then 2 boys were chosen to make it fly. Out of 29, only were able to pass the line. It was a failure for our team. In this activity I learnt to make rockets as well as working w...

Flash backs…..PPD As this is the last episode of the year, we were asked to write a conclusion all ppd sessions that we had though out the year. We had done many activities which teach important lessons to our life in this week. Most of them were group works which gave us the knowledge and practice to survive in the current society.in every Wednesday; we willingly attended for the session with a hope of a new exciting activity. 1. Paper tower 2. Lava River 3. Standing on the paper 4. Barter puzzle 5. Egg protector 6. Life goals 7. Cultural learning 8. Out bound training program Paper tower In paper tower we were provided papers and celotapes, we had to make the tallest tower which can stand without any external support. Lava River In Lava River we were provided in 4 plates we had to cross the Lava River ( 8 members) by not loosing those plates. Standing on the paper In this activity, we were provided by a large paper and we were asked to stand on th...

Out bound training program at the naval camp I can consider this episode of my block is about a kind of different program compared to other activities that we had weekly in the university. As undergraduates normally we have hectic life styles by doing assignments, doing presentations.  We spent very hectic in front of the laptops coding. For people like this was a wonderful opportunity to pay more attention to our soft skills. Officers at  the navy camp had organised many fun activities for us to do. Though we were tired at the moment we were willingly participate for those games. All the games were based on personal progression. We learnt how to follow the leader as well as how to express our ideas among group members. We had a very colourful evening at the camp beach. We were asked to preform items such as songs dances and dramas. Although we had not enough time to be prepared,  we have done a great job and we made that night a wonderful one. ...

Barter puzzle As previous activities, in this week also we had a very nice ppd session with an exciting game called batter puzzle. According to my point of view, this batter puzzle game represent the society that we are about to go through and which we cannot avoid. Because of that reason, everybody played that very well. The task was: the lecture gave us a picture of a magazine and gave 10 minutes to have a good look on it. Then 2 members of each group including the leader asked cut that picture into 100 parts and separate 10 parts. The lecturer collected all separated parts from each group and mixed well. Then she divided all the 30 pats into 3 groups and gave us again. Then we had to make the picture correctly within 10 minutes. First of all, our team leader kept mixed 10 parts in her hand and separate unwanted parts. Then we divided our group into some subgroups and we fixed the puzzle. Finally we completed picture by collecting all parts. Then there were some volunte...