HHHC9501 SET27 KEMAHIRAN
PEMIKIRAN KRITIKAL, PENYELESAIAN
MASALAH DAN PENDEKATAN SAINTIFIK
SEMESTER II SESI 2014-2015
REFLEKTIF DIRI
NAMA
:
HAMIDAH BINTI HAMZAH
NO. MATRIK
:
A144636
NAMA PENILAI
:
DR. NOR FARAH MOHAMAD FAUZI
SELF-REFLECTION ON WORLD RADIOGRAPHY DAY 2014
Each year on 8th November, Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotheraphy programme will held an
event of World Radiography Day. Basically, this programme is to cherish and appreciating
the role of radiographers from all over the world, and also to spread the knowledge and
increase the awareness among radiography students on the current news and technology in
the radiography field.
On the annual meeting of World Radiography Day (WRD) board member, I was
chosen to become the committee member for the “Tugas-Tugas Khas” (TTK) secretariat. It
was indeed an honour to be chosen, but also personally I feel quite reluctant to accept this
spot, as from what I have known, the responsibility of this secretariat involve the T-shirt
designing, which I feel that it would be something impossible for me to design a T-shirt as I
am neither artistic nor someone good in computer software.
What is the meaning of life without taking any risk to face the challenges, right?
Therefore, I just decided to accept this spot whole-heartedly. Then, there came the first
problem. The board member of the WRD 2014 asked us to design a few T-shirt designs to be
chosen as our official WRD T-shirt for that year. That situation is really challenging my
personal critical thinking on how I am going to design a shirt, when in fact, I do not even
have the knowledge or any experience in using the computer designing software such as
Photoshop and others. By that time, the only thing that came across my mind was to use Paint
in Windows to design a shirt, but then, that idea was pretty lame as I realized that I did not
even knew how used Paint to design a shirt.
It is really not my type to give up easily, so in order to solve this problem, I tried to
find some online tutorials on shirt designing. That was when I found an online website for Tshirt designing, CustomInk.com.
I tried to use my critical thinking to learn this online software in a short time and to
design the shirt needed using the details provided by the board member, as this shirt would
also be opened for order to other radiography students from other university. To be honest, I
was not depending on this website totally, where I have to learn from my friends on how to
use Photoshop in producing the designs needed. After several attempts, I have obtained few
shirt designs to be presented during the coming meeting.
After two meetings, the board member decided to choose one of my designs to be the
official shirt for the WRD 2014. I was so elated because besides I got to see my design to be
worn around, I also gained lots of new knowledge in T-shirt production and also I can
increase my critical thinking skills in solving the problems, which is in my case it involving
my incapability in using the computer editing software. Instead of depending only on online
designing software to solve this problem, I chose to learn some simple editing in Photoshop
from my friends, so that someday I could apply what I have learnt in some other programme
in future.
On the day of the programme, I was asked to handle the cancer and X-ray
Instrumentation poster presentation, and also the pitching competition slot. As I have also
never experienced it before, it really give me a rush to handle this programme alone.
Therefore, as I know I could not handle this task alone, I have decided to ask one of my
friends to help me.
By using the critical thinking and problem solving skills, I tried my hardest to make
sure that the flow for the poster presentation from the second year students and also the
pitching competition slot from the fourth year students went smooth without any interruption
and careless mistakes from me. First of all, I divided the task between both of us and I
explained our job scope, so that we would not have an overlap task. Based on our agreement,
I was going to handle the judges and she would handle the participants. Then, on that day, we
did as what we have planned earlier. I went for judges’ briefing on the marking scheme and
also the criteria that were needed to be judged. The day before the programme happened, I
have done some research on the topic for the pitching competition, so that if the judges asked
me to explain to them a bit on the topic, I could explain briefly to them. This is one of the
way how I developed the critical thinking skills through this programme. It was quite a whole
new experienced to me and I was so grateful that both poster presentation and pitching
competition slot went great.
I was preparing the judging form before the
arrival of judges.
The preparation for poster presentation.
Final
preparation
before
the
pitching competition started.
It is not going to be a good programme if all of the organization members do not help
each other during the programme. During the programme, we encountered some technical
problems. As an example, the catering could not come to send our lunch during the break
time, therefore, by using the critical thinking and problem-solving skills, I suggested to the
Programme Exco to continue with some relaxing slot, which was team-building and icebreaking session with the students, in order to make sure that we would have something
beneficial to be done while waiting for the catering to come. As for me, it also could prevent
the event from being dragged until late evening as some of the students came from outside of
Kuala Lumpur and it would be an inconvenience for them if we dragged their time.
The ice-breaking session while waiting for lunch.
In a nutshell, I have gained lots of new knowledge throughout this programme.
Personally I think that this programme was also indeed a good medium for me to sharpen my
soft skills in managing the problems faced. I learnt on how I have to take a risk and face the
challenges in order to grow and be better. I also learnt that when I am lack in some
knowledge, I have to strive to learn, instead of giving some excuses to avoid from the
responsibility given. Throughout this, I have make a full use of my critical thinking and
problem solving skills in order to fulfill my responsibility as an AJK TTK and also as a board
member of the World Radiography Day 2014 organization. Critical thinking skill helps me to
enhance my hidden talent such as designing a T-shirt which I never in my life I imagined
myself doing it, while the problem solving skill has helped me a lot in solving quite a number
of problems that I encounter since the first day I enter this programme and become a part of
the organization.