These photos are of White Elephant, the place we will be going to in March.
At the moment you are in teams and responsible for organizing your challenge. The managers reported today that some people are already showing signs that indicate a lack of focus, drive and commitment.
The ironic thing here is that the people who should be reading this post, are the ones that don’t come to it. True?
The people who are always on the blog, (you know who you are because you are reading this right now) are the ones that consistently are putting in the time, energy and effort to make this trip a success.
I am a little lost with this, any ideas how we can get the others to step up? What can we do to inspire them and motivate them to be part of this experience?
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We can inspire them by showing them the awesome posts here during the school day (If we can fit in the time). Then they might be inspired to come every day for a new post.
That is a great idea, Jai. But I don’t think that they deserve to look at them. They should come and goin their own will. If they don’t come, it’s their own problem. I admire the way you want to help them, but it doesn’t work that way.
Sorry, I was typing from my iPhone. It’s ‘go in’.
Alright Pranay. Thanks. 🙂
Welcome Jai. But that is my perspective. But it could even be wrong.
There you go. It’s wrong.
Oh and sorry about the notification that I pressed this onto my personal blog. It just comes.
Pranay is right jai good idea.
Thanks Fatma!
we can inspire them by walking to them and ask this hard questions to why they are not taking part.
Could I see some examples?
And Taia. USE PUNCTUATION!
Yes. I agree with this too. You need to use punctuation Taia.
Pranay, you are doing very well while patrolling this blog. And Taia, we keep telling you to use punctuation, and it comes in one ear and out the other. Please use punctuation.
Yes. Saying it is not enough. We need examples.
I’m not sure you should ask them why they are not participating.You should use reverse sychology on the stubborn people for example you he and she that they shouldn’t help ,everything is going smoothly,he/she will get jealous and start helping.
I’m not sure that was such a great idea but I believe it could work
Actually, reverse psychology is a brilliant idea! We can talk to them in a tone showing them they aren’t needed. They’ll then want to come to see what we’re up to, not wanting to be left out. Reverse psychology will make them realize they’re missing out. Great idea, Nawaf! 🙂
Nice! You are being (in my opinion) quirky!
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We can motivate them to come on the blog by showing them how much learning fun there is. We can also provoke them to come on the blog daily by discussing how exciting the blog post was the next day.
Or we could just show them the post and they see for themselves.
Pranay is right Saloni we can show only this specific post.
Yeah, we can show them this particular post, to show them how much we’re planning for only them to come to the blog. They’ll feel pressure on their to not let us down, and start coming, and hopefully, consistently coming. I believe there’s a chance it could work.
Great idea Saloni!
I don’t think that we should do anything. They miss it, they miss it. They are responsible for themselves, aren’t they?
Yes, but this is making them miss out on our blog community. We need to build our community not leave it to the few people we are.
That’s right. I had never thought of that. I totally change my sides. As the old wise man once said. ‘The more, the merrier.
Right. You are correct.
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We really need to encourage the people who are not coming to this blog to come here an have fun learning with us, after all, we are like one big family! We need to push them more and more until they are all committed to this blog. The more we talk about the blog in class and even in our free time, the more they will hear about it and hopefully get curious as to what we are talking about.
Well done, Pranay. It’s good you are using and connecting to quotes while on the blog. 🙂
It is very true that the people who are not focused in class are not focused or committed to the blog at the same time, I think we can help them by walking to them and asking them to take part by telling them every day so that maybe they can get tempted and come to the blog or we can help them push themselves but not the forcing kind of push the helping kind of push. That is what I think so that they take a lead and go to the blog.
I think you are right and wrong. You are right that we needed to push them. But we have already pushed them. Once in the post of Kryptonite, we had more than a hundred comments. All of us had commented at least 5 times. So why encourage them now? They know that comming to the blog is a priority. Then why don’t they?
Yes. You are very right. But as I said earlier, we need to BUILD the blog community.
Not leave it.
Pranay, they don’t follow their priorities because they’re ignorant and selfish. They’re wasting their learning oppurtunity, their parents’ money, and our effort to help them. 😦
I agree with Pranay ,you are right and wrong because the numpties wouldn’t come to the blog since they would not like to take their learning further ,or they are just lazy and don’t like work or wasting time.You are right because the people who come to the blog are focused and committed ,and those who don,t come are not.
We can motivate them by showing them that in the blog there is a lot of fun blog posts to read about but there is also a lot of learning in the blog so we can show them that they are missing out on the blog and so that will motivate them to go to the blog.
Yeah, you’re right. They will feel bad if they are not participating. Nice thinking.
That is what motivated me to go on the blog consistently because in the beginning I wasn’t really going to the blog.
This is a very good idea! Well done Sarah!
That is a very good idea. Although, I wonder if ANY idea would help them, because they’re ignorant, and ignorant people IGNORE people. They might not listen to our suggestions….
Why are they like this, it’s their problem, not ours.
Yes. I agree with you Rahul
I like the idea, but motivating numpties to come to the blog will need a little extra help.
I like the idea, but motivating numpties to come to the blog will need a little extra help ,at least two people to convince one numptie.
Let’s all talk as much as we can about the blog and get everyone involved.
Good idea Tiana
That’s a good idea. Then they’ll keep the blog in their mind always and might remember to come to the blog. I hope it works.
Thanks Dish and Rahul
I disagree with Rahul because if the numpties hear people only talking about the blog they will feel left ,and then they will start coming.
I think we should talk more about BLOG so that everyone can get involved and write comments.
Not to be rude or anything but that is just what Tiana wrote.
We can encourage to go to the BLOG by like M.R CHAD can call names of the people
who went to the blog and witch m.r chad never,they stand up and give m.r chad a good
excuse f it’s good enogh they can sit.Starting from tommorow,good luck.
Fine, the Numpties get in trouble by Mr Chad, but that won’t help their thinking, or make them feel that the blog is awesome. They’ll just feel bad about it, then forget about the blog. You know them.
And please, Fatma, use PUNCTUATION. I just luckily understood what you typed,but it’s really hard to understand. Use punctuation. 🙂
Please check your spelling and punctuation Fatma,and no excuses because Mr Chad does not like excuses, and Rahul is right , if Mr Chad punishes a numptie they wont listen.
I think in ICT time, the people who fly on the blog should assist the others and show them how much fun they’ve been missing. It’s worth a try; even if some Numpties ignore us, we’ve tried. I know we should never give up on some people on our team, but basically it’s their loss, not ours. It’s their decision on what to do- encourage them, yes and good, but don’t force anyone. I know that none of those Numpties will read this, but even if it’s your loss, the whole team feels your loss, and loses with you. If ONE team member falls/fails/loses, the whole team goes down too. So please, everyone, come to the blog. If you are, excellent. Mr Chad made this blog and writes posts everyday, not for his pleasure, but for our learning. It’s your choice, to either come to the blog and win by learning more, or stay back alone like a lonely Numpty, with no new knowledge, and fail, and regret it.
Please, really, please come to the blog everyone, for your own good. 🙂 It’s your choice, to win or to fail.
You are right ,some numpties do ignore us when we try to help.
I agree to that statement.
We can motivate them by telling them what is on the blog and how cool it would be if they could join us on the blog.If they go on the blog we can praise them so that they can do it for the rest of the year.But if they don`t thats just who they are.
I like your idea. Maybe if they start consistently going on the blog, we could give them an award or a small prize. Just maybe, but then they should,nt get a prize for something we expect them to do….
Good strategy. I wonder when those Numpties will ever come to their senses.
Sorry, typo. I meant ‘shouldn’t’, not ‘should,nt’. My mistake.
We can manipulate them into helping us with the planning by letting them be the drivers ,and we step back, because if we let them share their ideas they will be moved and think we appreciate him/her knowledge,so they will start helping
I like the sleeping gruop aregment group how they be organized making the rooms fair and the peole to sleep and tianas group making shour everyone at the trip must have a sit for our journey to white elephant and the team manager group keeping people on the right track and start putting on there sit belts and go now we go to the food menu group telling people what food you want and if your vegetarian or not i forgot the what to bring group telling people do have medication or not the last group is our we make the teams of sports so people can have fun and enjoy and making shour everyone has been selected on the teams we selected and they will coming other teams to play at the trip the and final one is the class.Thank you.
Please check your punctuation and spelling Talal. And how can you get people who are not participating to participate. Talal honestly I don’t think you read ,I think you only looke at the pictures and guessed what this is all about. If you do not understand read other people comments and then you would know the topic.
Talal…..this is about how we can help the people that are not on the blog.
I think if there is a no wifi (own blog) they tiped in a word and they bring the USB or printed out. And or they ask to the Mr.Chad and todays blog is what is about and thy write in the word and they bring the USB or printed out. But if did this ideas Mr.Chad become tired. And Ihav a another ideas. If wants to play the game first you did the home learning and then game. Yes. I think also the ironic thing here is that the people who should be reading this post, are the ones that don’t come to it.
I think that the trip to white elephant will be a trip to remember.
Riko,I think that what you are saying is the truth.
I think that the numpties are not coming to the blog because they are starting to feel that the blog posts are becoming boring.I think that we should persuade them to come to the blog by showing them this blog post because, they are obviously excited about going to white elephant.I think that when we show them this blog post they will find out that the blog has not become boring.
That is a amazing hotel look at that pool if I could I would spend hours in the pool.
How can we help the people that are not coming to the blog?
Jai you should do this say the blog is very nice did you see that comment on the blog and stuff like that simple. but do it like a BOSS. 🙂
Alright. Haha like a boss.
Jai by encouraging them.
if that doesn’t work i don’t know what will work if you got an idea just write it down i shall read it or you just call them and discuss it. PROBLEM SOLVER 😎
We should persuade them to come to the trip we can persuade them if we work very hard and make the place look brilliant