Week 1, session 2

The start of today's session allowed us in our groups to prepare and finalise our presentation for the debate. Troy, Bobbi and I were relatively prepared for our individual 'speeches' but no one had prepared a close. I was the 3rd speaker and therefore the job of closing was given to me. What was awesome though was that one of the team members who wasn't having to speak very generously helped me to write an excellent closing statement. I was super nervous about the debate and it really didn't help that I was one of the last speakers. Unfortunately for me public speaking does make me nervous and those nerves show - the whole time I was speaking I could feel my hands shaking and my voice wavering a little but I pushed through and think I actually got some really good points across. As a team we were not expecting a win as we know there is a majority of people that are anti changing the flag but we were stoked at the end when Phoebe asked whose minds had been changed by the debate and we could see that 2 people had changed their minds from anti flag change to pro flag change. It just shows that there is definitely validation to both sides of the argument. The critique afterwards definitely helped if we were ever in that situation again. And the chocolate fish we were given after the debate even though we didn't win was awesome! :D
From there we moved on to mind mapping and word lists. As a class we created word lists for the flag change theme. Then in groups we created a word list for the public/private schooling theme. I personally found these a bit confusing.

Homework:
Pick a stance and draft some thumbnails using the rhetoric devices of juxtaposition, pastiche/parody, and subversion.
Collect at least 1 ihi/wehi image and 1 topic related image, analyse each, print at A3 and bring for Monday's session.