Week 7

What happened?
Our group met for the lecture, where two of the members didn't turn up and one was late.

In the lecture we discussed and voted in our groups the criteria we would be assessed on in the second assignment. It also turned out we did not need to create our own criteria for the first assignment.

After we had had a long discussion as a class on what out criteria should be, it was apparent we would be marked on the process we used to get to a finished artifact.

Then in the workshop, one of the missing group members turned up and we got to work on figuring out how we would complete the 2nd Assignment: create a time-based 3D Artifact. We figured it would be best for everyone to learn the 3D program Blender over the week before the deadline and then we all create the artifact in the next meeting.


Thoughts, feelings, assumptions, beliefs, values, attitudes...

It is a slight relief that the essay will not be assessed on our criteria, and I feel it is also good news that the 2nd Assignment will instead be assessed on it. I think this will make work easier and produce a more interesting result from all of the groups.

I think the group will be a lot more pressured in this second assignment, with only one week to learn the tools and complete it as a group.

I am getting slightly annoyed at one of the members who has missed some of the lectures, and feel they aren't putting enough work into the group. However, my opinion may change by the deadline of this new assignment.

Reasoning and thinking behind actions and practices...
I think we are all able to complete Assignment 2. However we did get easily distracted in the workshop and may not focus on this assignment as much as the previous one.


Evaluation
Good: Making decisions as a group fairly effectively with little disagreement.

Bad: Group getting distracted, some may be taking too much time off.


Reconstruction
Focus more on the assignment and aim to help get the others more focused, too.