Transformative Journal (Tan San Yee U2003081)

 GIG 1005 Social Engagement

 

Name	TAN SAN YEE
Matric Number	U2003081/1

Transformative Journal

Before

 

First of all, I am very grateful to be called a student of University of Malaya who is involved in a subject called GIG 1005 Social Engagement, which provides us a golden opportunity to engage with the society. Social engagement is an compulsory course at University of Malaya that assists in enhancing soft skills among students. After registering for this course, we have been informed that there will be a meeting on 19 March 2021 with our coordinator, Dr. Dallilawati Zainal. During the meeting, Dr. Dallilawati Zainal briefed us about the course requirements. We have been informed to do the project online due to the outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic in our country. In addition, we also have been informed that Dr. Ong Lin Dar is our supervisor. After meeting with the coordinator, our supervisor, Dr. Ong has held a meeting to brief us about the format of the proposal and the overall flow of our program. During the meeting, Dr. Ong has divided us into our respective groups of 5 per group. After that, during the first meeting with my group members, we chose the group leader and discussed the potential project that could be carried out. I have been chosen to become the leader of our group. I would like to thank my group members for giving me such a good opportunity to become a group leader. Besides, we had decided on our theme and overall program flow. Each group member has their tasks and everyone is cooperating with each other. Before the program started, we finalized our proposal and handed in to our supervisor, Dr Ong. Fortunately, our proposal has been approved. We are very happy and looking forward to implementing our project even though it is carried out online.

 

During

 

During the implementation of our project, which is starting from 12^th April 2021, I have been in charge of designing the poster to be posted on our blog. Thus, I have learned the poster designing skills after exploring for many ways to create an attractive poster. I realized that everything needs our persistence and effort, when we do not know something, we have to learn. Besides, my group members and I also recorded two asynchronous videos that will be posted on our YouTube Channel. Every group members are well-prepared before and during our asynchronous videos recording sessions. Fortunately, our videos about the corporate governance and ethics have been posted to our YouTube channel successfully. In addition, we also held a synchronous live class for our 50 targeted accounting students all around Malaysia. Even though we are very nervous during the live session, but we are able to finish it successfully and we even get a lot of good feedback from our participants. Although we have faced some challenges during the implementation of our projects, we are grateful that we are cooperating well with each other and held the project successfully with the efforts of all of the group members. For example, since everyone is busy with their own assignments and works, we have gone through hardships on deciding the synchronous live class date and time, but gratefully at last we will able to decide for it.

 

After

 

Overall, the implementation of our project is smooth and we are very happy with it. In my honest opinion, this course has given us so many advantages and benefits. Besides enhancing our soft skills, it also helps us to improve our communication skills here we got to engage with people around us, even though it is virtually. Besides, this project has given me a valuable opportunity to give back to the society. By implementing this project, we are promoting the importance of corporate governance and ethics to the society. In addition, we get to enhance our adaptability skills. It is because our project still went smoothly as we originally planned despite the project has to be implemented virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that implemented a project online is not easy, since we already adapt to the physical project. Most people would prefer to join the physical project because we can interact physically with our friends. So, I am very appreciated for having the cooperation of our group members and the joining of all of our participants to make this project a big success. As a group leader of our group, my leadership skills have been improved a lot since I know that once I have taken on the responsibility to be a group leader, I have to try my best. I have learned to foster a fun atmosphere in our group and chill up my group members when we are going through some hardships. In my opinion, the most unforgettable activity throughout this project is the synchronous live class. It is because during the live session, we can interact with the participants and this can help us to enhance our communication skills. Furthermore, I would like to thank our coordinator, Dr. Dallilawati Zainal and our supervisor, Dr. Ong Lin Dar for giving us this opportunity to conduct this project and not to forget, my group members which I believe without them, this project would not have been possible. If possible, I wish I can still take part in this project, which can benefits the society as well as bringing many advantages for us.