Post 3: A problem we encountered and how we solved or mangaged it.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Today was such a close encounter! The day was going fine until OPW period (Online Project Work) I did not know we had to bring the thumbdrive with the templates in it until my Form Teacher reminded us before OPW period. I thought: "Uh oh... I did not bring the thumbdrive...".
When I told my friend about it, he was shocked and kept asking how should we mangage this problem. I told him that I could try to get a copy of the template from other groups, but the problem was that I did not have a thumbdrive! Luckily, after asking around, my group member had brought his thumbdrive in his pencilbox so we could get the template and save it in the thumbdrive.
During OPW period, I, being the group leader, went around asking for templates from other groups. Most of the computers the school provided were hanging so it was quite hard to get a template from them as the computer was hanging. After 1 period of running around the Professional Room 2, I finally got a copy of the templates and started on our project as quickly as possible.
After brainstorming, we finally came up with a complete project for stage 2 of the OPW. The real problem then came. When we asked the teacher to view our project, she asked us: "Then what about the template 1?" We had completed only template 2 but not 1 and to make matters worse, we did not have the template as the other group did not pass it to us. Adding on to our burdens, the computer was only charged for an hour and the battery life was running low so we had no time to type the template 1. My friend Parry, suddenly thought of an idea to hand in the OPW by today.
He suggested that I take back the project home and finish it up then email it to the Form Teacher. Our form teacher then gave us her email address and told us the send it back to her. Thanks to Parry's quick thinking, we were saved and the problem was solved! Great thinking Parry! Somehow i felt we were really lucky as there was another group that had to redo their OPW TWICE as their computer restarted twice, therefore they had to send the project to the form teacher by mail too.
What a troublesome day!