Welcome to our Food Safety blog =).

Created: 10 April 2010
Leader: Lynnette Heng
Members: Lorelle Ang
Soh Chin Yi
Goh Ai Ting
Li Yuen Ying

Lynnette: KK Hospital- Dietitian
Chin Yi: Gardenia- R&D
Ai Ting: Singapore Sports Council- Nutritionist
Yuen Ying: KH Roberts- lab assistant
Lorelle: OSIP (China)

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For package 1, I was still in school for the launch. Therefore, I was still able to participate quite a far bit in the FILA template and also the delegation of the tasks. However, as I am having my internship overseas, in China, I left Singapore 2 weeks after the launch. What was worse was that there was no internet connection here until about 1 week later. Therefore, I could not contact my group members or post anything up on black board. I felt really bad because by the time my internet was fixed and I could post things up on ole-bb, a lot of posts and researches have been done by my other team members. Therefore, I still tried to help out as much as I can by doing a larger share of the report and also helping out in research for the other members as well as my own part.

For package 2, it was worse. I was not able to be present at the launch. And therefore, unable to be present for the delegation and the rough FILA template draft. This made me feel really bad and guilty that I was not able to be present at the brainstorming session. However, I looked through the FILA draft template after it was posted on ole-bb and added for things that can be included in the blog/report. This time, my group members gave me a more crucial part to play in the research because I complained to them the other time that for package 1 I did not help much at all.

As this is a online project, teamwork is not much of an issue as we seldom have actual face to face contact with each other and in my case none at all. Therefore, there were little conflicts. However, because it is an online subject, it can cause one to be more lazy and complacent. And it is apparent that there are some who post more things online than others. And the thing with online subject is that because there is very little accountability factor, it is hard to persuade and make that person who is lacking to improve themself.

Also, one thing that I did not like was that my group did not have online discussion e.g on msn. Which leaves me out quite a bit as they usually meet in school on weekends instead. Although I have suggested quite a few times to them to have an online discussion, however, they prefer to have a face to face meeting in school as it is more convenient and efficient.

The difficulty level of the project is not hard as most of the researches can be done quite fast now with the help of internet. However, there are some parts which still needs to be done by researching the books in the library like the toxins and pathogens part. However, the one hard part about the project is the ability to sift through the plenty of information that can be found and make sure that the correct and reliable one is used. Also, with the plenty of information that can be obtained, it makes it hard to compress it to 10 pages of the report.

What I have learnt from this online subject is that I still prefer conventional projects where there are meetings face to face rather than through the computer/internet. However, it is quite useful as next time in the actual working world, not everything can be done face to face as sometimes clients are overseas or another branch overseas; just like the situation I am in right now where all my fellow team members are in Singapore and I in China.