Woodbug Lab
Reflection:
For this assignment, I believe I demonstrated growth in two major competencies. The two core competencies I exercised in this Project are communication and creative thinking. Working in a group has never really been my forte in terms of projects, but for this lab, communication and co-operation was key. I think being in a group with my friends really helped me put my ideas forward to the rest of the group. This is where my creative thinking came out. Part of the project required us to create our own experiment to conduct on the woodbugs. My group was having some trouble thinking of something interesting and creative, so I began throwing ideas out to just get us rolling, and sure enough the final product was an evolution of one of my ideas. For next time, I’d like to try to be in a group with some people I don’t know very well and just work on communicating with new people.
Sewage Project
https://kodiaks.sd43.bc.ca/tyg2017/files/2017/09/Video-2dapxkp.mov
Reflection:
In this project I think I improved on my communication and problem solving. For this assignment, we were in groups of four and had to put a video together on a topic of choice. I had friends in my group again, but we all had a lot of creative ideas and we just couldn’t agree. It went into a deadlock of opinions for a while, but I eventually realised that we were going absolutely nowhere, and needed to put a stop to it. So, we all sat down and I managed to get everyone to make some decisions and compromises on the ideas for the video. I don’t consider myself a leader-type person, but I did feel pretty important after we had our discussion. The only thing that would’ve made the situation better would be if I had realised that we needed to compromise, sooner.