Expert game and thread & pen game

    Life is a very interesting thing with the valuable memories we are getting in the university everyday. Each day is a special day in the university and it is more special with our ppd session. Every week we are getting lot of new things to our lives. As usual, there were two fun games on last week as well.
    Firstly, we were divided to four groups and the first game was the expert game. Before the game, we were asked the expert area of ours one by one. We all had the expert areas that are vary from one to another. The game was to select three expert areas and make a one product by relating those three areas. Each group had to think about a product that covers the three areas they selected and madam said that it should be a simple product. After 30 minutes of discussion, all the teams had to present their products one by one.

     Since madam said that the product should be a simple one, our team decided to present a eyeglass cover, because the areas we chose were reading, bike riding and hand crafting. It is a handmade leather pouch and we made the product for readers to protect their eyeglasses and for bike riders to keep their sunglasses. But their was a one difficulty. As sarasi madam said, only hand crafting was used to manufacture the product. As the solution for that, She herself suggested that we can make the product by hand crafting and deliver it by bike to the readers. Readers are the customers of ours.

    The expert game was very interesting and we learnt to conceive new ideas as a team and present them in a good manner.
    The second game was thread & pen game and we were in the same groups as the expert game. It was very interesting game as well. In this game, we were given a blank paper, a pen, a thread and a selo tape. The task was to write a word on the given paper using only thread and the pen without touching the pen or the paper. We had to think about a strategy to write the word in this manner. So, we tied the thread around the pen and wrote the given word by holding the thread around the pen with the contribution of all the team members.

    It was also a very funny game and we learnt how to manage the resources we have and use them in a proper way. With those experiences, last week session was a very interesting session as well.

Technical writing

    I got a very special experience on last week and it was a workshop in WSO2. It was like a dream of mine became a reality, because it was the first time that I went to WSO2.

    The workshop did on the topic of technical writing. I didn't know about a job position called technical writer before the workshop. It was a good opportunity to learn more new things. Technical writing is related with English language and it is about using the language correctly. as well as it is about writing user manuals or comments of a code or many other things. Things we learnt from the workshop was valuable. It was not like a usual lecture and there were so many things.
    They explained about technical writing and technical writers. As well as, we were taught some English grammar parts. And after that we had some exercises to correct the sentences that had some grammatical errors.

    After the exercises we had a small competition and it was a group activity. We were to write a user manual for a user who wants to withdrawal 1500 rupees from an ATM. They selected a winning team gave some gifts.
    After the competition we got refreshments and after that there was a fun activity. It was a group activity as well. In the fun activity we had to think about an object and write four sentences about the object that describe it. Actually it was very fun. The winning team of this game also was given a gift.
    By the time, we reached the end of the session and lastly we had some photographs with the team. It was very interesting session and we learnt so many new things.

    Apart from the workshop, I could see the working environment of WSO2 and it was very interesting place. That was my first time that I even entered to a software company and it was a great day and a great feeling.