For the past couple of weeks we have been working on prototypes for exhibition ideas in Humanities. We created posters and emails encouraging people to chose their favorite idea and give feedback. We are trying to teach community members about the Cycle of Socialization and how it affects different groups of people. I’m excited to put the idea into action because it’s very engaging and fun. I want to help every group work to success to make the exhibition great. I want to work as a Project Manager because you can work with every group and be helpful for them. Looking back on the past few weeks I felt that our group worked really well despite a few bumps in group composition. For instance the video side wanted me to help them with something and the email side wanted my help as well. The video group has been in groups with me before and I had always done all the work while working with them, so naturally I didn’t want to work with them. That caused a big stink and the video group didn’t do anything, but complain about how I wasn’t helping them. After these difficulties we were able to get everything do.
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The four terms I picked were Adaptability and Flexibility for my strengths and Creative thinking and Initiative for my weaknesses. When I was building my Rube Goldberg I found that the ball kept getting stuck, so I had to adapt my Rube to make it work. Adaptability and flexibility go hand in hand however adaptability is when you can make changes in the face of a problem to make things work. Flexibility is when you need to be able to work through challenges in your group and changes ideas to make it acceptable for everyone. Creative thinking is difficult for me because sometimes I don’t come up with creative ideas to make my work better. Taking initiative is hard for me because I fear that if I do take initiative I will have to do all the work without any help from team members. This has happened to me several times in the past where I’ll do something and no one else will help or fallow. It’s incredibly frustrating and it’s made it harder on me to grow as a learner. To improve on these weaknesses I’ll try and take on a leadership role to get my group members to help me in taking initiative. For creative thing I’ll try to find things that inspire me creatively to help with my thinking.
In this project I would like to see a strong final product/ exhibition that all of us build together. I hope that everyone works together and does equal work loads so that everyone does their part. I also want this project to change how people see the world or at least open their eyes to what’s going on. I want a parent to say “Wow I never thought of this,” or “This changes things for me.” I want a professor to say that we were exactly right or that they got to see what they knew in a new light. To be sure we are presenting accurate information to the audience we need to keep our research tools that we have been using handy and to fact check everything before presenting. We also need to practice how we will present to make it perfect and clear to the audience.
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