Post by Finlip on Feb 4, 2006 23:29:57 GMT 6
Smart Club: February 4, 2006
Today was the forty-fourth session of the smart club. There was new experiment today as the moderation session was held before the normal smart club session. That might have been the reason why there was no introduction round until the middle of the the morning. The total time spent in the hall today was more than three hours. Two people were present for the first time: Kripa Gautam and Yashad Dangol.
The moderation session today was carried out without any power-point presentation as there was no laptop. Prajwal Gadtaula was the moderator today. The topic was: Media and Globalization. The moderator introduced the speakers very well in the style adopted by last week's moderator, Nischal. However, he neither introduced the commentators nor the topic. The topic of the moderation session was clear only when the first speaker started his presentation. There should also have been an introduction session before this session. The moderator was not to blame for this though. Anyone could have said, "Let us first have a round of introduction."
The first paper presenter today was Nischal Sharma. He seemed content presenting without the aid of power point slides. He said he was more relaxed this way. The five minutes of question answer that was supposed to take place at the end of Nischal's presentation was cut short by the moderator who demanded only questions for clarity and postponed other questions until later on in the day.
After the first paper presenter presented his paper, the moderator did a very good job by accumulating and repeating what the presenter said. He then called on the second presenter, Sudip Gautam.
Sudip Gautam had prepared himself for a power-point presentation. So, having to present without his visual aid must have hurt him a bit. That might have made him pretty nervous. He was slow to start but his presentation gradually turned into a very good one.
The second presentation was also accumulated well by the moderator who then called for questions for clarity which didn't come easily.
In the open discussion session, it was mainly people asking questions and the two speakers answering them. Quite a few of the audiences were quiet during the discussion. Everyone should have been encouraged to speak something. Moderators might want to develop skills by which they will be able to make every quiet, introvert, shy person say something because there is something that everyone knows.
There was no discussion on the quality of the questions that were put forward in today's session.
The two commentators were then called upon. Apeckshya was first and she spoke with a pretty good flow and would have surely been helpful to the moderator and the presenters. Binny was up next and she gave a few comments that raised eyebrows. Everything else was fine.
As soon as the commentators finished commentating, the moderator hurriedly closed proceedings and we went for the tea break. He might have done better to give one or two lines of concluding remarks.
After tea, people came back and last week's moderator Nischal conducted a session where the moderation sessio was reflected upon.
The speaking session, this week, was co-ordinated by Binny Bhandari. She started things with a round of introductions before reading out all the roles and then inviting the chairperson. She did a good job by summarising every one of the speeches that the speakers gave and showed reflective listening. However, she invited the Ah! counter before the time keeper which isn't the intended order.
The pre-decided speaker, Manish Joshi, spoke on 'Trade Tarrif and Economic Development.' He had the luxury of listening to a failed impromptu speech on the same topic a week before. Manish was holding his stomach with one hand and moving the other hand pretty well. He seemed relaxed standing up and spoke with very good voice. The content of his speech was good but he probably spent a little more point in defining the terms individually than talking about the scenario created by the combination of the words.
The self-decided speaker, Vinit Agrawal, spoke on the topic 'Physician Assisted Killings.' He speaks with a good voice and is very clear. However, he might do better to sound less serious by adding a smile to his face. His speech had a lot of very good content. He had mastered his subject and so was able to keep the audience interested in him. His was the speech that everyone looked at with a lot of interest.
The impromptu speaker was Nishcal Sharma. After a very good presentation earlier on, he would have been expected to follow it up with a very good speech as well. That was exactly what he did. The topic given to him was in fact a question. How can youths participate in policy making level? Nischal tackled the question well and stayed there for the three minutes for which he was required to stay. He also volunteered to face questions in the end and tackled them very well.
The commentators today were Apeckshya Karki, Sagar Dev Bhatta, and Ojaswi Ghimire. All three of them went up and did a very good job. Sagar read with the aid of a paper which he had never done before. He commented that Vinit shouldn't have used the piece of paper. However, a speaker can't be discouraged from carrying a piece of paper with points jotted on it to use for reference. Ojaswi was scratching his head and for a while his eyes were fixed on the paper he was reading from.
The first grammarian, Mr. Dev Kumar Sunuwar started with the sentence, "I have come here with my grammar error." Being a grammarain will surely help him improve his grammar. But ironically, the grammrian's speech was probably the one with most grammatical errors. He did point out a few errors made by the speakers and commentators.
The objective behind having two grammarians was to make sure the job is shared and to ensure there isn't pressure on only one grammarian. However, today, both the grammarians worked individually instead of dividing the job between them. The second grammarain, Kushal Pokhrel, also commented on the Ah!s and pauses which was not his job.
That was Ajay Kumar Upreti's job and he did a good job. The irony was that he was called up before the time-keeper. Ah! counts have no relevance unless we know the amount of time it took for those errors to be committed.
The time keeper Sameer Ameer Kansakar filled in for Rabi Shah who was absent without notice.
Kripa Gautam was the first of two observers today. She started up very well but then made it seem like she ended her speech before she actually wanted to end it. She probably ran out of words. She was really impressive to start with. She siad that she had not spoken during the session and had left it till then to give all her observations. She looked happy to be there with the rest of the members and her presence at the club from time to time can only make it better. In her speech, Kripa gave the idea of having debates and also noted down that the introductions took place too late.
Yashad Dangol came up with a thick, good-looking notebook. He used the word forum to denote the club. The smart club can surely be called a kind of a forum. He was able to speak for longer than Kripa was. He spoke very well as well and looked pretty happy.
Bijaya Karanjit was today's chairperson. She had the opportunity to say "Now I formally close the session." but she forgot. Before that, she had very few critical remarks. People in the audience should respect those who are speaking by listening to them and not moving around. That was a very important point well made. Everything else went on smoothly which meant the chairperson didn't have much more to say.
The roles for next week were then decided. Lhakpa Sherpa will be the co-ordinator next week. Then there was the display of the logos that the participants prepared. There were quite a few entries and a few of them were created on the spot. Sameer Ameer Kansakar, Kripa Gautam, and Ojaswi Ghimire received the best applauses. Manish had the best presentation but probably didn't have the logo to back it up.
There was no reflection on the speaking session but everyone was given a piece of paper on which they were to write down their observations and then submit it. The forms of the smart club were also distributed.
Today was the forty-fourth session of the smart club. There was new experiment today as the moderation session was held before the normal smart club session. That might have been the reason why there was no introduction round until the middle of the the morning. The total time spent in the hall today was more than three hours. Two people were present for the first time: Kripa Gautam and Yashad Dangol.
The moderation session today was carried out without any power-point presentation as there was no laptop. Prajwal Gadtaula was the moderator today. The topic was: Media and Globalization. The moderator introduced the speakers very well in the style adopted by last week's moderator, Nischal. However, he neither introduced the commentators nor the topic. The topic of the moderation session was clear only when the first speaker started his presentation. There should also have been an introduction session before this session. The moderator was not to blame for this though. Anyone could have said, "Let us first have a round of introduction."
The first paper presenter today was Nischal Sharma. He seemed content presenting without the aid of power point slides. He said he was more relaxed this way. The five minutes of question answer that was supposed to take place at the end of Nischal's presentation was cut short by the moderator who demanded only questions for clarity and postponed other questions until later on in the day.
After the first paper presenter presented his paper, the moderator did a very good job by accumulating and repeating what the presenter said. He then called on the second presenter, Sudip Gautam.
Sudip Gautam had prepared himself for a power-point presentation. So, having to present without his visual aid must have hurt him a bit. That might have made him pretty nervous. He was slow to start but his presentation gradually turned into a very good one.
The second presentation was also accumulated well by the moderator who then called for questions for clarity which didn't come easily.
In the open discussion session, it was mainly people asking questions and the two speakers answering them. Quite a few of the audiences were quiet during the discussion. Everyone should have been encouraged to speak something. Moderators might want to develop skills by which they will be able to make every quiet, introvert, shy person say something because there is something that everyone knows.
There was no discussion on the quality of the questions that were put forward in today's session.
The two commentators were then called upon. Apeckshya was first and she spoke with a pretty good flow and would have surely been helpful to the moderator and the presenters. Binny was up next and she gave a few comments that raised eyebrows. Everything else was fine.
As soon as the commentators finished commentating, the moderator hurriedly closed proceedings and we went for the tea break. He might have done better to give one or two lines of concluding remarks.
After tea, people came back and last week's moderator Nischal conducted a session where the moderation sessio was reflected upon.
The speaking session, this week, was co-ordinated by Binny Bhandari. She started things with a round of introductions before reading out all the roles and then inviting the chairperson. She did a good job by summarising every one of the speeches that the speakers gave and showed reflective listening. However, she invited the Ah! counter before the time keeper which isn't the intended order.
The pre-decided speaker, Manish Joshi, spoke on 'Trade Tarrif and Economic Development.' He had the luxury of listening to a failed impromptu speech on the same topic a week before. Manish was holding his stomach with one hand and moving the other hand pretty well. He seemed relaxed standing up and spoke with very good voice. The content of his speech was good but he probably spent a little more point in defining the terms individually than talking about the scenario created by the combination of the words.
The self-decided speaker, Vinit Agrawal, spoke on the topic 'Physician Assisted Killings.' He speaks with a good voice and is very clear. However, he might do better to sound less serious by adding a smile to his face. His speech had a lot of very good content. He had mastered his subject and so was able to keep the audience interested in him. His was the speech that everyone looked at with a lot of interest.
The impromptu speaker was Nishcal Sharma. After a very good presentation earlier on, he would have been expected to follow it up with a very good speech as well. That was exactly what he did. The topic given to him was in fact a question. How can youths participate in policy making level? Nischal tackled the question well and stayed there for the three minutes for which he was required to stay. He also volunteered to face questions in the end and tackled them very well.
The commentators today were Apeckshya Karki, Sagar Dev Bhatta, and Ojaswi Ghimire. All three of them went up and did a very good job. Sagar read with the aid of a paper which he had never done before. He commented that Vinit shouldn't have used the piece of paper. However, a speaker can't be discouraged from carrying a piece of paper with points jotted on it to use for reference. Ojaswi was scratching his head and for a while his eyes were fixed on the paper he was reading from.
The first grammarian, Mr. Dev Kumar Sunuwar started with the sentence, "I have come here with my grammar error." Being a grammarain will surely help him improve his grammar. But ironically, the grammrian's speech was probably the one with most grammatical errors. He did point out a few errors made by the speakers and commentators.
The objective behind having two grammarians was to make sure the job is shared and to ensure there isn't pressure on only one grammarian. However, today, both the grammarians worked individually instead of dividing the job between them. The second grammarain, Kushal Pokhrel, also commented on the Ah!s and pauses which was not his job.
That was Ajay Kumar Upreti's job and he did a good job. The irony was that he was called up before the time-keeper. Ah! counts have no relevance unless we know the amount of time it took for those errors to be committed.
The time keeper Sameer Ameer Kansakar filled in for Rabi Shah who was absent without notice.
Kripa Gautam was the first of two observers today. She started up very well but then made it seem like she ended her speech before she actually wanted to end it. She probably ran out of words. She was really impressive to start with. She siad that she had not spoken during the session and had left it till then to give all her observations. She looked happy to be there with the rest of the members and her presence at the club from time to time can only make it better. In her speech, Kripa gave the idea of having debates and also noted down that the introductions took place too late.
Yashad Dangol came up with a thick, good-looking notebook. He used the word forum to denote the club. The smart club can surely be called a kind of a forum. He was able to speak for longer than Kripa was. He spoke very well as well and looked pretty happy.
Bijaya Karanjit was today's chairperson. She had the opportunity to say "Now I formally close the session." but she forgot. Before that, she had very few critical remarks. People in the audience should respect those who are speaking by listening to them and not moving around. That was a very important point well made. Everything else went on smoothly which meant the chairperson didn't have much more to say.
The roles for next week were then decided. Lhakpa Sherpa will be the co-ordinator next week. Then there was the display of the logos that the participants prepared. There were quite a few entries and a few of them were created on the spot. Sameer Ameer Kansakar, Kripa Gautam, and Ojaswi Ghimire received the best applauses. Manish had the best presentation but probably didn't have the logo to back it up.
There was no reflection on the speaking session but everyone was given a piece of paper on which they were to write down their observations and then submit it. The forms of the smart club were also distributed.