Task3- Reflection

Task3-Reflection 

101102020 Tiffany 陳季荷

Our project is "The Romance of Three Kingdoms", which is composed of Wei, Su, and Wu kingdoms. Our story mixes the historical events with romantic imagination, creating our own version of Three Kingdoms. Each student portraits a historical person and designs a game. We play the game twice and have invited total of six foreign students to join our project.

My role is an unimportant soldier named Nobody. My task is Carrot Squats, which is also a funny game. Since the first two tasks are more serious, we want to put some relaxing element in it. Originally my game is to combine gestures and numbers. They have to say the number when doing the gesture. Two people cannot say the same number at the same time. However, after the first experience, I find it difficult to play this game in Second Life because the lack of eye contact. It is hard to have two people say the same number. Therefore, I change the game. In the second time, foreign students need to repeat the gestures I do and say the name of it. I think this time it goes much more smoothly than the first time. This time I slowly explain to them how to do the gesture, so they won’t be confused like the students of first time. Yet we do face other problem. One of the student’s computer had some problems that she couldn’t do the gesture. Eventually, we let her guess the name of the gesture so she can participate in as well.

The three gestures I choose are bow, laughing, and whistle. It is different from my original plan, but I decide to go something easier in the last minute. I think it works well. The students know which gesture it is immediately. Whistle, the last gesture, makes the game more interesting. In the end everyone is laughing.

The first time we encounter some problems but we are able to finish the game in time. After it, we revise our script and adjust our games to make it easier for foreigner students. The second time we still face some problems, but overall everything goes well. I think our project is quite successful.

Through this project, I realize how challenging communication can be. Sometimes I explain the rules many times but they just couldn’t get it. Sometimes they don’t give any response. I think it’s not only about improving English but also changing the way of explaining. I learn some techniques of communicating through this project.