Week 2

What happened?
We were told about good ways to keep our individual reflective journals.

We were told to form up in our assignment groups and sit next to eachother each lecture.

A late comer tried to join our group because a friend of his was already in it, however our group was already 6 men, and to add another would make the assignments unneccessarily difficult, so we could not allow him to join.

Each group was given handouts. The groups were told to answer a question sheet about different perspectives people from different professions would see a Pineapple and a model Hare as. I identified that Fibonacci's numbers could apply to the professions and certainly applies to the items. It was revealed that this is what linked the items and professions together.

In the workshop our group met up and discussed what we had collected as research. We then refreshed ourselves on the first assignment and conducted some group research on the question we picked if it was interpreted literally.

We then had a short talk on possible layouts for the essay, and at the end of the workshop we picked reasonable individual tasks we had to complete for the next meeting.


Thoughts, feelings, assumptions, beliefs, values, attitudes...
I am a bit scared of having to provide such an in-depth study of the events of each week of this module.

It was a shame we had to deny the late-comer into our group, but it was hard enough with us working in a group of 6 people (already above the ideal amount), let alone 7.

I think the Fibonacci numbers are necessary to be aware of, however it is drilled into our heads too often, giving an impression its the answer to everything, or that its an easy way out. Our group took the question task more seriously then last week, but still treated it with a jist. (having said that I identified the link between the items and professions, which I was pleased about)

I am pleased with the progress we are making as a group. We are all aware of what has to be done and know the steps that need to be taken to get it done. I however feel that we are struggling to delegate enough work to people.


Reasoning and thinking behind actions and practices...
We are still a new group and don't know eachother that well, so we are bound to joke about in the first instances of us getting to know one another. But I think it is good to treat everything in a joking manner, to keep the group attentive and involved (prevent slackers as much as possible).


Evaluation
Good: The group got closer and had a good learning session. We successfully
gave eachother reasonable tasks again.

Bad: The group did not "form up" as a group, and sat as a sort of babble around the computer screens when we had the meeting.


Reconstruction
Keep up using the light-hearted approach to working on the assignment. Sit as a more organised and managable group, as to avoid keeping anyone left out. Improve on not taking the tasks seriously. Show more leadership and firmness to make sure work is getting done.