Personally, I think Lim and Chun had done tremendously well both in the preparation and presentation of their topic. I respect their initiatives in the effort of presenting the gist of the content of the topic from a different angle to avoid redundancy of what have been covered by the textbook. The textbook gives an explicit guideline whereas Chun and Lim allowed the audience to share their tacit knowledge through the activity introduced such as debate.
Well, thinking of the debate, I would like to express my dissatisfaction towards the judges. No offence is meant but this is my fair and humble opinion. We were supposed to give our opinion with regard to the advantage and disadvantage of brainstorming in a distance learning environment. During the debate, the class was divided into 3 groups. I belonged to the pro, the other group was con and the middle group was supposed to judge our motion and justifications. What happened was, when both groups had presented and argued, the judges were supposed to tell which group won the battle. Instead, the judges took sides and expressed their own opinions. So the battle went to the con. Weren't the judges supposed to judge based on arguments and not on what they believe? After all it is just an activity..small matter though ;)
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