WEEK 8

7 "bacteria" with their lovable Dr Wan~ ♡

Wednesday, 22nd April 2015

Our lesson started quite late because Dr Wan was rearranging all the possible classes that have to be cancelled and also decide on when will she be replacing them. It took almost one hour, maybe, I'm not so sure myself. Haha. 

And also! We formed new groups for BMY3102. (Meaning that we are not using the same group as last semester) Groups that we will be in when we have to do presentations or any group work. 

After forming the groups, Dr Wan assigned us to do a mind map on the subtopic that we wanted to do. As for our group, we chose "Bacteria". Everybody have to use Popplet. 

As for me, I have never used it nor open the website. So, it was kind of foreign to me. Ah. Also, most of us (our group members) don't have popplet account. So... We took turn to create account, with only three laptops available. (And none of them are mine. Actually, when Dr Wan told us in our Whatsapp group chat to BYOD, I thought that smartphone would be enough. Oh my my, I was so wrong. Haha. I should have bring my laptop so that our "creating-Popplet-accounts-spree" could have been faster and easier. 

We took about half an hour, maybe(?) to finish creating all of our accounts. 

In the end, we managed to finish the mindmap. Although we were the last group to come back to class (from the cafe, in order to get good Wi-Fi signal). 

P/S Popplet is indeed fun to use! I will definitely use them in the future for mind maps! I usually use Mindmeister when doing mind maps. I have two options now when creating mind maps in the future. Hehe.  

Friday, 24th April 2015 

Our group was the first group that have to present since the first subtopic that Dr Wan going to teach is "Bacteria". 

Everybody was given one minute to present our own points but it seemed that everybody (each of my group members including me) exceeded the one minute given. If we were given two minutes each, I think we can finish presenting our own points in time. Maybe… Hehe.  

Regarding the presentation… There were a lot of things that I have left out. It's not that I want to left it out on purpose but it was because I was nervous. But  I guess it's normal, right? But then again, I didn't practice in front of the mirror (in other word, I lack preparation) I did plan to do it! I really do! But I couldn't find the time.. And also didn’t record how long I will be talking. Reckless. Reckless. My other group members prepared themselves though, (I knew that because they told me they recorded their “talking-time” the night before) I have to make them as example and prepare well for our next presentation~ If there will be one, though. Hehe. 

To be honest, there are a lot of things that I wanted to share with you guys from my part of the presentation, but I didn't do so. I prepared a lot of informations, you know! Haha. I will do better in the future! :) 

Dr Wan also gave advise to the whole class that we have to present properly and confidently (and also in the given time!) as if we are teaching our own students. So, everybody must practice before the actual presentation~ 

I guess enough rants for now. X’) 

Now is the real deal. 

This week we learnt Microbial Systematic in which we will learn in depth about the diversity of microbes such as their physical traits and nutrients. We managed to cover a bit on “Bacteria”.  

Hmm, from what I understand, Let’s say that we all know that there are Gram positive bacteria as well as Gram negative bacteria and they can be differentiated by comparing several traits but the trait that I am most familiar with is their cell walls’ components. In which sometimes may lead to their pathogenicity, especially for Gram negative bacteria in which most of them are pathogenic because they have some features that cause them to be susceptible to antibiotic, hence they can be dangerous to other organisms.  

I guess that’s all I can say for now since we didn’t learn much, yet. Can’t wait for next lesson! :D