Example Reflection – Story telling 

 Challenge 

 I ’m on a tour of duty as a Child Protection and Social Welfare Officer in the Republic of   South Sudan since October 2015 with the main duty of providing leadership in   development of policies , capacity building of staff and stakeholders . Have been capacity   building through various means like lecturers and powerpoint presentations bombarding   audience with a lot of information .   This has sometimes led the audience to grasp little ,   lower information retention rate as I receive questions latter on issues previously they   had indicated they understood well and experienced low audience concentration as   evidenced their frequent movement and request for energizer . I have learned that most   of my audience is not used to long sessions of lectures and powerpoint presentations –   yet I have so much to pass to them within limited time of my tour of duty . Was getting   a bit frustrated , in fact one of my twin advice I remain simple during one of the sessions   review with little change . When I keenly learned about all the tools in design thiniokning   for innovation namely visualization , storytelling , mind mapping and learning launch , I   got a solution that would attract , retain my audience attention and convey my message   through storytelling . 

 Selection 

 Story telling is a design thinking tool . It ’s a narrative of an event or occurrence , narrated   in a chronological way . The story has to be relevant and suitable to achieve the narrator   objectives . I equate it to a demonstration of a skill in a narrative approach . Story telling   helps to establish form of a base on a given phenomena , like child protection during   Moses times , do comparative analysis with the situation at hand and forge a way   forward . 

 As a facilitator in dire need of stimulating my audience , attract and retain their attention   during knowledge imparting , sharing sessions and link situation on the ground with   similar or almost situations in child protection , I found story telling more suitable than   other three tools . When I trained as an Instructor , I was introduced short stories as   ideal for lesson introduction which worked so well – though I did n’t know it could be   used as a tool of passing message in a learning situation . I extended after acquiring   more skills on it . Since I joined this course , I have used story telling tool in three   workshops and several times in staff twining process with awesome results . 

 Application 

 I formulate objectives of my presentation and considering factors on the ground I select   existing stories I know based on the objectives . I summarize the story if it ’s long but 

 carefully selecting and retaining my theme . Once narrated and then link with current   situation on the ground as I reflect on the existing legislations and policies . 

 Insight 

 Story telling is attractive tool to all – atleast for all the groups I have interacted with –   Senior Government Officers , UN Agencies , NGOs , Staff , Local Leaders , Public and   Children – all are attentive to storytelling . The story needs to be catchy and aligned to   the audience preferences and likes not offending . Over the year I thought story telling   was a tool for attracting audience attention before embarking on the major tool or   approach of sharing knowledge and experience that will take them through to the   objective(s ) of the presentation . However , have discovered that story telling tool itself is   a tool that can be used as a pathway of taking your audience through to the desired   destiny – pass the information . It is a tool for everyone , the old , young , female and   males whereby same story can be shared by different audience so long as you consider   their characteristics like age , concentration rate , objectives and time . These are factors   alongside others I will consider in future as I make story telling an information sharing   tool not for just attracting audience attention and then shift to other tools . 

 Real life experience when narrated attracts attention and behaviour change of the   audience and it is paramount you give the audience to identify such . ( during preparation   of this year International Women ’s Day , I proposed to the organizing committee as we   emphasized back to school for girls that might have dropped from school for one reason   or another , we get a girl , currently in school who might have dropped during her school   life – the committee identified several , one was chosen and shared her experience in   radio station . It ’s expected this will encourage school drop outs and enable them take a   bold step and go back to school . 

 Approach 

 Next time will have audience involvement in story telling - through guiding and leading   to my set objectives and theme especially for stories they are conversant with . If none ,   will inquire from them of any story they know of based on my theme like of an abused   and exploited child . This will be through guiding intrudes when a participant will be   narrating story - the aim in to avoid lengthy stories that can counterproductive and   retain the track . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Example Reflection – Story telling 

 Challenge 

 I ’m on a tour of duty as a Child Protection and Social Welfare Officer in the Republic of   South Sudan since October 2015 with the main duty of providing leadership in   development of policies , capacity building of staff and stakeholders . Have been capacity   building through various means like lecturers and powerpoint presentations bombarding   audience with a lot of information .   This has sometimes led the audience to grasp little ,   lower information retention rate as I receive questions latter on issues previously they   had indicated they understood well and experienced low audience concentration as   evidenced their frequent movement and request for energizer . I have learned that most   of my audience is not used to long sessions of lectures and powerpoint presentations –   yet I have so much to pass to them within limited time of my tour of duty . Was getting   a bit frustrated , in fact one of my twin advice I remain simple during one of the sessions   review with little change . When I keenly learned about all the tools in design thiniokning   for innovation namely visualization , storytelling , mind mapping and learning launch , I   got a solution that would attract , retain my audience attention and convey my message   through storytelling . 

 Selection 

 Story telling is a design thinking tool . It ’s a narrative of an event or occurrence , narrated   in a chronological way . The story has to be relevant and suitable to achieve the narrator   objectives . I equate it to a demonstration of a skill in a narrative approach . Story telling   helps to establish form of a base on a given phenomena , like child protection during   Moses times , do comparative analysis with the situation at hand and forge a way   forward . 

 As a facilitator in dire need of stimulating my audience , attract and retain their attention   during knowledge imparting , sharing sessions and link situation on the ground with   similar or almost situations in child protection , I found story telling more suitable than   other three tools . When I trained as an Instructor , I was introduced short stories as   ideal for lesson introduction which worked so well – though I did n’t know it could be   used as a tool of passing message in a learning situation . I extended after acquiring   more skills on it . Since I joined this course , I have used story telling tool in three   workshops and several times in staff twining process with awesome results . 

 Application 

 I formulate objectives of my presentation and considering factors on the ground I select   existing stories I know based on the objectives . I summarize the story if it ’s long but 

 carefully selecting and retaining my theme . Once narrated and then link with current   situation on the ground as I reflect on the existing legislations and policies . 

 Insight 

 Story telling is attractive tool to all – atleast for all the groups I have interacted with –   Senior Government Officers , UN Agencies , NGOs , Staff , Local Leaders , Public and   Children – all are attentive to storytelling . The story needs to be catchy and aligned to   the audience preferences and likes not offending . Over the year I thought story telling   was a tool for attracting audience attention before embarking on the major tool or   approach of sharing knowledge and experience that will take them through to the   objective(s ) of the presentation . However , have discovered that story telling tool itself is   a tool that can be used as a pathway of taking your audience through to the desired   destiny – pass the information . It is a tool for everyone , the old , young , female and   males whereby same story can be shared by different audience so long as you consider   their characteristics like age , concentration rate , objectives and time . These are factors   alongside others I will consider in future as I make story telling an information sharing   tool not for just attracting audience attention and then shift to other tools . 

 Real life experience when narrated attracts attention and behaviour change of the   audience and it is paramount you give the audience to identify such . ( during preparation   of this year International Women ’s Day , I proposed to the organizing committee as we   emphasized back to school for girls that might have dropped from school for one reason   or another , we get a girl , currently in school who might have dropped during her school   life – the committee identified several , one was chosen and shared her experience in   radio station . It ’s expected this will encourage school drop outs and enable them take a   bold step and go back to school . 

 Approach 

 Next time will have audience involvement in story telling - through guiding and leading   to my set objectives and theme especially for stories they are conversant with . If none ,   will inquire from them of any story they know of based on my theme like of an abused   and exploited child . This will be through guiding intrudes when a participant will be   narrating story - the aim in to avoid lengthy stories that can counterproductive and   retain the track .
### Output: 