Jared’s Blog

Today I had a rare opportunity to meet up with Ashleigh to work out what our assignment entailed and what direction Ingrid and Ashleigh had taken it. I was impressed with the amount of work they got done in such a limited time, and felt bad at the same time that I couldn’t help out. Luckily the information I had earlier gathered fitted in with the presentation the girls had mapped out.

The trouble was ‘how to make our presentation unique and exciting’ rather than a straight forward ‘lecture and listen’ which the other students would probably quickly get tired of. We decided that rather than listen to our voices the whole time, some short videos (so as to not detract from our speaking time) would be good. Ashleigh found a trailer on an up and coming video of the terrorist group the Barder Meinhoff which was contextually relevant and I had to toss up between a news report in Israel on a terrorist attack and a video of indoctrinated children reciting their hatred to the Jews and Israel. I felt the later had more relevance to school children and the attrocities of terrorism.

We left the legal side to Ingrid as that is what she’s studying.

We spent the rest of the (long) afternoon updating and beautifying our slideshow to give a clean-cut presentation that we felt the students would actually read rather than just stare at. It was another tiring but productive afternoon.