Edited by Deirdre Robson, Monday, 24 June 2013, 14:02
I have managed to re-join the project , which has been going without me. When I returned during Week 16 I note that perhaps not as much as I expected had been completed, though I don't know why. In these 2 weeks, however, the project development has really gathered pace, and we have managed to catch up. Other groups do seem to be further ahead.
As a result of advice from Yishay, the block's overall 'controller', it is decided that we need to shift our focus to something more defined - a secondary school focus has emerged. The various approaches and expertises of the group members has begun to show some dividends - for instance in our proposals for storyboards. There was a great variation between how to realise them, though we in the end we don't go for the artistic (Ignacio), but for the more simply formatted but time-tested in terms of flexibility and readability (Dave's suggestion).
Group dynamics in this project are good, and everybody is pulling their weight. There are still glitches in following the given instructions, which are voluminous but at the same time not necessarily easy to follow -and all of us are suffering from how this bears down on the time constraints we all have. One spends as much time working out what to do, as completing the task. The whole project seems task led; my focus feels it is all on the trees and not the woods, and am not getting the chance to read around at all which makes me feel I am not 'learning' much. We are all complaining about this.
History of Here reflection (H817 Weeks 16 & 17)
I have managed to re-join the project , which has been going without me. When I returned during Week 16 I note that perhaps not as much as I expected had been completed, though I don't know why. In these 2 weeks, however, the project development has really gathered pace, and we have managed to catch up. Other groups do seem to be further ahead.
As a result of advice from Yishay, the block's overall 'controller', it is decided that we need to shift our focus to something more defined - a secondary school focus has emerged. The various approaches and expertises of the group members has begun to show some dividends - for instance in our proposals for storyboards. There was a great variation between how to realise them, though we in the end we don't go for the artistic (Ignacio), but for the more simply formatted but time-tested in terms of flexibility and readability (Dave's suggestion).
Group dynamics in this project are good, and everybody is pulling their weight. There are still glitches in following the given instructions, which are voluminous but at the same time not necessarily easy to follow -and all of us are suffering from how this bears down on the time constraints we all have. One spends as much time working out what to do, as completing the task. The whole project seems task led; my focus feels it is all on the trees and not the woods, and am not getting the chance to read around at all which makes me feel I am not 'learning' much. We are all complaining about this.