Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Class Decision

Thinking back on the day we voted on the classes testing situation, we didn't do a bad job. Overall, I felt collaborative with the rest of the group. I guess I did not so much choose this method, rather than acted it out.
I am a known introvert, thus I feel the need to assess before making a move. At first I assessed the classes human nature; we had to do something as a group of what felt like a hundred students, so the event began with panic. We then slowly, but surely, funneled into an orderly manner to come to a decision. It was through letting the dust settle I was able to associate myself with the ideas that best suited me. I found that it would be counter productive to throw in another idea with the gross amount already presented, so I voted on the fair choices that would not only make the most sense for me but for my classmates as well.
As far as I am concerned, if I were to just think of my grades, the other method I would have chosen was the assertive one. But as a member of a group, the collaborative one made the most sense to me.

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Egg that Could!

We called our egg "The Egg That Could" and we should now call it "The Egg That Did". Out of all the 5 planning processes steps, my team used 3 of them. We defined our goal to create an egg covering that we could drop the egg in. We did not determine our resources to the fullest because we did not have the exact sizes of the utilities. Nor did we evaluate our individual strengths, but we did pick the shortest person in the group to drop the egg. We combined all of our ideas, to somehow incorporate what worked, so all alternatives were decided to be ad-libs of any left over materials. We had our tactical plan, but we didn't have the luxury f trail and error. In the end, our egg survived and we got 5 points.