Monday, January 14, 2013

Group work

My concept development class; on Monday, January 14, 2013, started with a team work activity.  We did three team works that day to practice our participation and make a solution for problems that our teacher; jimmy gave them to us to solve. Frist, we were asked to seat in order based on our birthdays date from January to the December. We had to be careful with the days of each month; days had to be in order too. We solved that problem very fast. First, we told our birthday’s mouth to each other. Then, if we had students that were born in the same mouth, we arranged them based on their days. After finishing that teamwork, we were asked to tell ours birthday in order to make sure that we do not have any errors.

 Second, we were asked to arrange all students’ comic pictures that we had been asked to do at home as homework from best to worse. That problem was really hard to solve because one person advised a solution and we started to do but it did not work. Then we worked on other student suggestion, but it didn’t work again and so on. We had to solve the problem in 20 minutes which made us so nerves. Finally we arranged all the pictures, but I don’t think so it was a fair judgment because we had a few minutes left that we finally got a solution. I think that as a teamwork we did very well because we all participated, gave suggestions, and listen to each other. Our work was like a designer’s job; they always talk to each other and explained their problems. They should know how listen and help each other in many different situations. On the other hand, our judgment was usually based on our personal loves. For example, if we liked that picture we pushed it forward and if not we pushed it down. The judgment should be based on many other logical facts rather than love and like. We had to look very closely and take more times for each picture and found out if that person had all designs’ elements, and did he or she used them very well or not. We also should pay attention to the texts that some pictures had and see if those texts or pictures made any sense or not.

The last activity was “making a story”. We were divided to four groups and each group had to make a story and use some objects that they had in that stories. Each group made a very interesting story with some simple objects. In that activity, all students of each group should be creative and make a story that interested others. That activity showed that not only the teamwork was important, but also creativity.