Day 3 (January 14, 2013)

seat placement,Group work comic ranking, Movie concept

The third day started with the class rearranging ourselves.  The mission was to seat ourselves in order by date of birth.  The exercise was to see if we could work together and complete the task at hand.  This task seemed easy enough, but was far from it.  From what I was able to see, we lacked communication as a group.  There were a couple of people leading the class, but due to the lack of communication with the class, the task took longer than expected.  We were also not organized due to the lack of communication.  In the end we were able to complete the task with perfect results.  I did however questioned our arrangement from what i saw, but it was done right.  I still believe it could of been done faster.

After the seating arrangements the class was given another task that required us to work as a group.  This time the class had to think of a way to rank each of the comics we did in the previous class.  We were given 30 minutes to complete the task.  The class began brainstorming which is a good way to start things off.  We were able to come up with 4 main criteria with ease.  Like before there were a couple of people leading the group.  This time from what i saw, we were organized, but we lacked execution.  20 of the 30 minutes we had were spent on brainstorming, but without doing the task a can not be completed.  Brainstorming is good, but with limited time it can only hinder us.  In the 10 minutes we had left, we began voting for the rankings.  When the task was complete, from what i saw we failed to meet the objective of the task.  This was because of our indecisiveness.  We were able to come up with 4 criteria to judge the comics, but when it came down to execution it was no good.  With the time we had left to vote, I doubted anyone even used the 4 criteria to judge the comics.  I know, I didn't use them.  From what i saw we failed the task we were given.

The last part of the day was another group exercise, but this time it was with smaller groups.  This time was to think up a movie idea.  From experience in other classes, the smaller the group the better the results.  This seems to be the case for this exercise as well.  Because of the smaller group sizes, there was more communication between each of the members.  Because of this the task was done easily and with better quality.  Comparing the small group and the large group, the smaller is more effective.  In the larger group only a low percentage of the group voiced their opinion, while the rest including myself didn't do so.  These exercises were good ways to show us how we worked as a whole.  We still need more practice with this so will be able to work more effectively.