Founders Day The Track Reflection

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

My group members were Hailey Looker, Victoria Potter, Kayla Faldet, Ellie Waters, Joe Kastel, and Jesse Kastel. What did not go well was when Jesse, Victoria, and Hailey were arguing with each other. Jesse was arguing about who was going to be each character and the arguments wasted a lot of

My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead

In the very beginning of the project, I planned to work with Kinzy but ended up combining our group with that of Noah and Nathan’s in the hopes that we would work well together as a group. This did not result as well as hoped, though we got the work done and I was given the chance to act as a peacemaker. As the project launched into action, we first had to decide upon an idea to sell, to which I suggested a few ideas, none of which were chosen. Each member of the group contributed to choosing the right idea for us to push into our target audience. From this point, I began to organize the beginning’s of our project, such as the lab for our scientific portion. Throughout the next week, however, conflicts within my personal life impacted and limited my ability to assist much in the creation and pushing of advertisements. My biggest contribution here was co-writing-and-performing an advertisement over the morning announcements. I then worked to help organize all the tasks we had yet to complete; it was decided that Kinzy and I would be writing the English essay and reviewing the Science Lab, the Byrd’s vice-versa.

It is not uncommon for someone in college to have a job, family, exercise ambitions, trying to maintain a social life, all on top of studying for tests and doing homework. Telling yourself that you will just do the assignment in the morning is very unrealistic when you know you should just do it right then and there. This is why picking a specific time to do homework can be beneficial. If you have your whole day planned out then your daily activities are less likely to get in the way of one another. This then leads into my next strategy suggestion which is getting the new student to think about how their schedule will open up more if they just get the task done early on in the week. Just thinking about getting all of your homework done before the weekend can be a really big motivator. According to the last video, The Power of Yet, rewarding “yet” (your goal being accomplished) and the strategy and progress is very important. You can reward yourself in whatever way you see fit for each task. No one wants to sit at home on the weekends and do homework when they could be out spending time with friends or family. Being able to go out and have a social life can be very rewarding to some

The first thing we did was all gather and make a PowerPoint to gather our information, and put the cites we were using for our information. I found the political cartoon and PSA for the group. We figured to do everything on our own then come back later to see where we were. Somewhere ahead and a couple were somewhere behind. Next we had to make a preview of our topic and what question our research related to. We had some problems because some people were gone and some did not do the there work. So I made the preview for our group and presented it to the class. The next day most of us had our worksheets done but one of us did not so we had to present with 3 instead of 4. I though I contributed to the group because I did my work on time.

The second half of the semester for the database was a roller coaster when it came to the summer seals group project. At the first group meeting, I honestly thought that I will not make it through due to the fact that they were so many documents that I was directed accomplish. My biggest job for the project I had to do was the activity model. Every day, I gave my full power to the best activity model for people to understand. There were times where I did not understand what to do with the activity model, so I immediately emailed my entire group and even my professor to make sure that I am on the right track. My team saw me working my heart out of this section that they took some of their extra time off to see

In the beginning, not one of the members was following the group norms we had set. There was a severe lack in communication, and none of the work by majority of the members had been done by the deadlines. For instance, only one of my group members had even completed their peer reviews the night before the final draft was due. My group members stressed me out not only by not completing their work, but also by not even telling my why they had not completed it. This was a major roadblock in editing. Moreover, when my members of the group had done their work, it was very poorly done. There were several grammatical, formatting, writing, fluency, and citation errors. I had to go back in and redo hundreds of issues for over half of my group members for their individual papers, despite my telling them that they needed fixing. It did not help the fact that one of the members of my group spoke English as a second language, and she kept changing back all of the grammatical edits that I had suggested for her paper, insisting that my corrections were wrong. My efforts to support the group in their completion of their essays gave me little time to work on my own individual paper. However, I managed to effectively complete my paper the way I had intended to. My group members were able to contribute to the editing of my paper, but their combined work was substantially less effort than I alone had put into

I am in the group aboriginal rights. Honestly, when I saw I was part of this group I had to look up what the term actually meant. After some personal research to become familiar with the term, I dove in. Our group got to work identifying tasks. There are three members in our group and each member has done an exceptional job putting in key research for the project. I have experience with website design so we agreed I would work on that. Another member of our group was assigned to researching some key sources and has provided us via email with multiple key sources for our topic. The final member gave some suggestions for a focus for our group as well as making some lists to presenting to us. We discussed a focus of our topic as Poor Education

I felt much internal conflict throughout this project, and occasionally felt guilty, as in the case where we rewrote much of the work submitted by a group member who did not have as much experience in writing as the others did. We had scheduled a time to meet and edit the paper, to which she did not show. However, I allowed my personal need to excel overrule the possibility to mentor and assist a newer student in her learning. Instead of redoing the work, we could have tried again to touch base with the other group member, or, if unable to accomplish this, we should have explained the rationale for the changes, and asked her opinion on the changes instead of redoing it. Additionally, perhaps we could have been more flexible in allowing her to choose times for meetings, as she was having difficulties attending scheduled meetings. This project provided an excellent opportunity of learning for all, and I feel I did not respond in an appropriate

The first time I met with my group I was impressed. Everyone was so dedicated to making sure our project was well written and thoroughly detailed. Kaiyah was the typist in our group, she was so determined to get the job done and she knew she had a lot of weight on her shoulders to get everything put together and turned in on time. In my high school English class, by many people were not motivated therefore I was very impressed to see someone just as dedicated to succeeding as me. I can recall the first time our group met up Kaiyah was so straight forward and cut straight to the point. She said, "Okay, guys so who wants what numbers of this assignment?" I replied, "Since I already started on number 7, I would like number 7 & since number 9 interest me, I would like number 9, if that is okay with everyone." The rest of my group, Wyman, Ashley and Aliah were fine with my choices. I realized the three of them were kind of quiet and standoff so I said, "What numbers would you all like?" Wyman responded with, "Is it okay if I do numbers 4 and 10?" Everyone was okay with his choices. Ashley said, "Is everyone okay with me doing numbers 1 and 3?" We all said, “Yes, that’s fine.” Aliah said, "So Kaiyah, is it

For a group project, the teacher only gave me and my group a week to do an assignment that would normally take 2 weeks to finish. After he refused to compromise about an extension, my team and I dedicated as much time possible and worked extremely hard to finish. My 3 partners and I met for a total of 20 hours in 3 days. Blocking out time when everyone can meet was also very difficult (One of my team members has a day job on some of the most open days for me).We took one step at a time, making sure no one falls behind and that everyone does their part. Overall, We finished the project and received a good grade on it. I’ve learned a lot about becoming a servant to others and being readily

In this engineering class, I learned the design process for products, and how important it is to work as a group and to fulfill each task. There was one time where my group decided to goof off and watch youtube, while I worked on the programming for our marble sorter. Thinking about it now, it was kinda my fault because I did not communicate to them more often. On the next project, we had to design a vehicle that would carry an object to a certain distance, and after that return after someone takes the item off. I took charge in this project, and I assigned both my group members to make a vehicle, while I did the programming. I communicated with my group, and they were able to complete the vehicle. I completed the programming, and when we tested out the vehicle, it was a success. It was then I decided that I wanted to become a computer scientist.

The community organization project our research team chose was LRADAC. The process of researching background information about the organization went well. Each team member contributed to finding background information about LRADAC. Our project manager, Allison Atkins, met with our research team at the beginning of the semester. We all chose Courtney to be the liaison between Ms. Atkins and the group. Ms.Atkins stated, she had high expectations for the group and she was willing to meet with us during the project. Initially there were not distinct roles for each group member. Everyone’s role became more defined when it was time to write the group papers. We all met as a group to choose the part of the paper we wanted to write. However, if a person was not in class when the parts were chosen they were assigned the remaining parts. The responsibilities of each research team member was not explicitly stated. I had high expectations for my group. Since we were in a masters level program, I expected everyone’s part of our paper to be turned in at the time we agreed and a great representation of masters level writing. Whenever there was not a person holding up their portion of the paper I did reach out to them, through text messaging, email and groupme to first make sure they were ok and secondly make sure they were going to do their part of the paper. During this community organization project, I felt as though I babysat more often

Throughout the course of this class, my group and I had done a lot of research, analyzing, and discussing before the creation of our poster. The day we had learned that we were partners for this project, we all exchanged phone numbers and used a texting group chat as our main way of communication. We much preferred meeting face to face every so often as compared to using Blackboard and when we actually wanted to meet, we often used the library in Gorham. We decided to work mostly independently throughout most of the course, conducting our own research and recording information that we found to be useful eventually. Our group decided not to assign each member a task to do independently, instead, all of our work would be compiled together and