Work Shop 01

In our lecture we went through the exercise for workshop 1, The main part of the workshop was going through the traffic lights, despite traffic lights being fairly self explanatory it was surprising difficult to describe how they work.

Last year in introduction to creative digital media we done a similar exercise where we were asked to give a list of commands to a robot on how to make a cup of tea and just like this one there is a lot of instructions you don't think of as they seem obvious. This exercise helps understand just how difficult it can be to get an idea across to really help people imagine it if you can't even describe it properly.

The workshop is really useful as it highlights something really important in a very simple way. Its kind of like when some one asks you to describe what a word is, without using the word in a way because at first you think its obvious but when you start to do it you realize that it is actually a lot harder than you originally thought it would be.

This workshop made me realize that I definitely struggle with explaining myself at times. You know what you want to say but getting it out can be a lot harder than you think. I also underestimated how hard it is to write about exercises like this as I originally thought 300 words would be just be describing the process and maybe a little bit about how you found it and previous experiences with such situations but when i typed that it was only around 120 words.

I feel like the exercise would have been better if we done it all in the lecture, As we were talking about it in groups first it seemed like everyone was struggling but then once Shaun talked about it for a few minutes it was a lot easier, so i feel like if we went through the whole thing it would have been easier to write about.

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