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Week 3: Reflection

Making ink is something I’ll never forget because I had so much fun making ink and using different fruits to create a colour for my ink. In the end, I decided to use blueberries and raspberries because they had a bolder colour. The next day after creating my two inks I went to my ‘No-Space’ and blindfolded myself (thanks goodness no one around) and sat silent for 5 minutes just to allow myself to feel, hear, smell and touch my surrounding. I drew what I was imagining around me, my final artwork didn’t look amazing but now whenever I look at it, I feel what I felt and I found it so powerful and meaningful.

[yuexuhme]

week3reflection

In this week, I have found a sound partner for my next project. We plan to make a animation, and we are trying to find out the similarity between out topic. She is choosing overwhelming and I’m choosing uncanny.

Based on our discussion, we are planning to make a animation cooperated with music.

For more reflection, I would add some more tomorrow after my presentation.

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I have made my uncanny presentation this week with Shaun, and he show me some work that might inspired my work.

Yellow Subamrine present a uncanny art in the video, which following the topic but shows a bold imagination.

Through the analysis and research of this work, I have gained a new understanding of the embodiment of Uncanny. -Compared to creating new creatures, giving new identities to real objects or showing different activities will further enhance the audience's feeling of "Uncanny" atmosphere. -The quality of the film will also enhance the story of the work. The dark tone and flickering texture like old animation will make the story of the picture more fascinating. The use of montage techniques to cut the story plot and metaphorical object pictures will further enhance the intensity of the feeling of "Uncanny".

REFERENCE

Wikipedia contributors, 'Montage (filmmaking)', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 1 April 2021, 19:07 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montage_(filmmaking)&oldid=1015484530> [accessed 22 August 2021]

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#DeakinECL310 #Week3Reflection #Handwriting 

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Exploring weaknesses in a group and personal setting

I feel that our group, East Field 72, works best either before our class/coaching section or directly after a break where we have all had something to eat. Most of the time though, someone has to take charge to make sure that our group work and team activity's get done. Though it sounds hectic we do end up finishing the group. Same thing cannot be said about my personal blog and my Tumblr experience. MY inability to to post concise and on time material. I can sit here and discuss excuses as to why this is happening, but I wont. This is a problem I have addressed and will be solving.

Some small ideas i have that could possibly help my group and myself are: 

Meeting up either before or a different day then class.

This could really help take away some stress that our team is currently feeling and help create better and bigger ideas.

For myself I need to take the time and just frankly put in much more effort as to not let down my group as a whole. 

[bencebnagy-blog]

My Team Experience

I personally love working in groups, I find it so much more fun to be able to talk to someone else about the same project. I always feel that a group project can be much more powerful than a one-man project mainly because of the reason that if someone is stuck, anyone in the team can help them. This gives much more integrity to a project because everyone can secure the amount of work done.

However working in a group can sometimes be very challenging. Team work requires a lot of communication and trust. When working in a team you have to make sure you can count on all your team mates to pull through. This can be frustrating at times when you come together at a meeting and someone has nothing to bring to the table.

In my group I haven’t really had any team work problems, everyone knows as much as the other and they know what to do to pull their weight. The only major problem was that we started off with only 4 group members (including me) at the beginning of the project. This was a problem because we had to fill all the roles of a full group with just 4 of us (these were the roles assigned from the Belbin test). Later (within this week) we gained 2 additional members! We were thrilled. I immediately told them to do the Belbin test, and to our luck, we got 2 people who were good at completely different things to us. I was quite happy about this because we having troubles filling the roles they were good at.

Now that we have a full group we have all been coming together multiple times for meetings concerning the project we need to continue with. Everyone is very happy and enthusiastic to contribute towards the notes that we take. However the only problem I find is that I am usually the one that always has to record all the notes while everyone is talking. In the future I would prefer other members of the group (preferably ones with laptops) to start helping me take notes during team discussions.

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Inside East Field 72

  Three weeks in to the project and the structural foundations of East Field have withstood a couple of ‘cultural quakes’ and absences, but apart from these two things the team has gelled together. We have had productive and interesting conversations and discussions both socially and while working. For the most part there is a great team spirit and we enjoy each other’s company.

  However in the coming weeks I strongly believe that a member of the group is going to have to put a real effort in overcoming their cultural beliefs in the role of women in addition to become a little more tolerant of ideas that may not be their idea. I would also like to see another member of the group make more of an effort to attend more meetings and discussions or input more heavily when he/she is able to attend, I understand juggling multiply courses and curriculums is challenging but if you cannot contribute fully to both courses then it is not fair to just “tag along”. The rest of the group has been making a real effort to involve the other group members in the project and to their credit the other two members did fulfill their task when we set it last week.

            To conclude on the whole the group has a good foundation and could easily become a brilliant team. We have six members from six different nations, creating strong alternate opinions which could be a huge asset. We now simply need to work on treating each other’s opinions with equal respect and ensuring all of us input constructively.

[falamalinka-blog]

Team-work and me

I haven't work much in a group before i started to study IDE, so it's something new for me. In high school if i had some project to do it was usually my own responsibility to have it done step by step from research through conclusions to final presentation.

When it happens – somebody shows me new, fresh way of thinking and i enjoy it – it gives me a lot of energy, ideas and will to work.

The other thing that challenges me is working online. As i wrote in the last post i don't have too much experience in working, discussing or just staying in touch through the Internet. And fact that the connection in my room is really bad doesn't help. But it will change soon i hope.

The thing that i'm really happy about is that we started to work in groups at the begining of the year, because it's helping to get to know each other better and faster than usually.

What can i do to improve my experience and group's work in the coming weeks? I think that it would be really helpful if i spent more time online and i could also read a bit more to get to know all aspects of our research problems better.

[saskiasmits]

Week 3 - reflecting on group work

Working in groups can be challenging at the best of times. Team work means communicating, working together, sharing out work and ensuring all work is done. You are dependent on group members to get work done which can be very frustrating if it doesn’t all go as you want it to.

When told we were going to work in random groups, I was afraid that the group work would be as challenging as previously stated.

In all honesty, our group is getting the work done as necessary and on time. However, at times it feels like work is not quite equally shared and some people aren’t doing as much of the group work. Additionally, some seem to have their mind otherwise when we are trying to work together. Currently we seem to have a bit of trouble coordinating work at times and shaping the work into a useful document.

In the coming weeks I believe we should try to become more of a team. We need to work together better, with everyone working usefully for group benefit. Although we have ‘roles’ from the Belbin test, I do not believe that these clearly represent what people need to be doing. Leaders, shapers, coordinators, visualisers, resource investigators and team workers all need to do work together.

What seems to have worked in some of the other groups is that they have named their group as well. These groups seem to have a lot more team spirit. Whether this why they have a name or if the name helps team spirit, it may be good to increase team motivation and team spirit. If we know each other better, we may be able to work better together.

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WE HAVE A NAME !

I just started to like blogging (maybe it’s because of my mood, don’t know)!

What about our group and our work. We main thing – we just got a name, its designated to GUILIANA ORIZZONTE and the name is THE HORRIZONTAL COMMUNITY - Looking beyond the horizon. I like this name; I think everyone from our group likes it. And the name doesn’t mean anything baaaaaad J

My group works very well! At first, I thought that we would do less of group work, but now I’m happy that we have to do mostly everything with it because we can help each other and we can do just everything. All members have big imagination, can help and explain. Also, we have our roles, we do everything and more what is required, we are trying to do everything together because it is better than doing everything alone, we can contact to each other and so on.

This is the third week of studies but I think that’s only the first one, time goes sooo fast! I don’t know what to expect in coming weeks but I hope it will be fun, as it was! These weeks were really good (I thought that at university has to be only theory and veeery much not really interesting things to do) I like what do I have to do, that I can have some free time to spend with my friends and to explore the Netherlands. These studies had changed my opinion about school, everyone says that you would miss your school very much, you won’t like the university and etc., but now I really love this university (I really do not know why, but..) and I miss my school but not as much as everyone said.

I think that this part of studies is the easiest one because now we are exploring, trying to know about what we have to learn, teachers are still very good for us (I hope they would be like that forever J), we do not have so much of homework. But.. I don’t know what to expect later. Maybe studies would change and it would be like an awful daily routine? Hope – not.

About group sizes, I like working in my group, it is enough to be in a group with five more person. This group is not so big, and not so small. Small groups makes us to have a very big responsibility.. and bigger groups can make us to be invisible, because there are some people who are like that, they want to say their opinion but when others are shouting out loud and trying to say their (the most important one) opinion – it’s not as good as it is in small groups. All in all, I think that the best group size is of 4-6 people. Maybe it’s only my opinion...

In the end, I like to say that I am really happy that we are in groups, we can teach each other new things, and we can communicate and do more than alone. Hope that in whole course would be as fun, as it was in those three weeks.

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Me and my group

We might be on week 3 of our group work but I haven't been here since the start, I only joined the team a week ago and I am trying to catch up with them so I guess that's what I find challenging.

I'm actually catching up though and at a fast pace (I think?) and one thing I would change in the near future about the way I work would be that I will know what I'm doing and can actually help the group in ways I can help with.

[itsmechell0]

Week 3 - Goodbye Facebook, Hello Basecamp.

     Wow. Time flies quite fast, we’re now already in our third week! This week, the students are asked to dive into a “closer to the ground” practices group size and its impact on open and innovative design. Personally, I think that this topic speaks more to me rather than the other topics since it’s related to my group’s theme: Work Team. So, this is my reflection about this week.

What is working well for you in your group? The first thing that works well, for me, in the group 3 will be our division of labour. After having read our weekly team activity together, we equally divide the task and also decide the deadline for the final group assignment between us. Usually, we first make some research personally and then share and stabilize our idea with someone who does this research in the same area and finally give the end result of the research to our co-ordinator. (similar to what Chris shared in the week 3 video! :p) Up until now, I think that this method operates well. Then, the communication is the second thing that makes the functioning of this group runs smoothly. I’m always up-to-date about the task, about other members’ questions, about new tasks, etc. Personally, I think that Facebook is a great tool for communicating between group members BUT not necessarily a good platform since it also provides personal communication between the user, their friends, their family... We slowly believe that this could become more and more distracting and... we finally decided to opt for a new platform called Basecamp! *finger crossing*

The last significant aspect from this group is our group size. In my opinion, this size of group of 5 is the best, every member is reachable and can easily speak up. As Christopher said in his website: “In my opinion it is at 5 that the feeling of "team" really starts. At 5 to 8 people, you can have a meeting where everyone can speak out about what the entire group is doing, and everyone feels highly empowered. However, at 9 to 12 people this begins to break down -- not enough "attention" is given to everyone and meetings risk becoming either too noisy, too boring, too long, or some combination thereof. Although I've been unable to find the source, I've heard of some references to a study from the 1950s that says that the optimum size for a committee is 7. Likewise, it's fairly easy for us to see and agree that a dinner party starts to break down somewhere above 7 or 8 people, as do also tabletop games of both the strategic (I prefer 5) and role-playing varieties (I prefer 7). These size limits can be overcome, but require increased amounts of "grooming". What is challenging you? What is challenging about group work, for me, is the idea of collecting ideas from other people and how to bring those ideas all together to finally come up with single idea that will embody every member’s idea, not merely one’s idea. What is one thing you might do differently in the coming weeks? If I have to think about one thing that I may do differently in the coming weeks to improve my experience and group’s work is trying to perfectionize my personal research and to maximize the use of tools that might be helpful to the group work such as Basecamp.

Have a nice week end, Bloggers! 

[busssh-blog]

'Strength lies in differences, not in similarities'

First of all, I must say that the first couple of weeks (especially the first week) were in fact difficult for me as well as my group to really cooperate effectively due to confusion. Even though we had assigned roles to each other, since some of us are not used to this working pace. it was difficult.

 It’s been three weeks now, and I feel my group is improving on stabilizing. People are getting much more used to their roles now, as to what they would have to do. I will also keep on motivating my group since this really helps!

Other difficulties I encountered were, as also mentioned before by another friend, the different structure of the research/document done by each member has in a group. This makes it difficult when combining all the research together, since it takes a lot of time re-structuring it again.  Of course this is perfectly normal because each one of us think differently and have a different style of writing. But perhaps agreeing on the layout standards will save us time. So next time, an idea I got inspired by group 8 --which coincidently also have the same theme ‘group work’--, is coming up with some group rules. These will be general rules like for coming late, but also rules for the structure for example. Having rules will be ‘fun’ as well, especially if we make people buy coffee for example if they are late! I think this idea is great, it will enhance the relationship of the team members, get them motivated, and work well! I would like to end my blog with this creative quote which very much defines our group; “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities” - Stephen R. Covey Any suggestions/tips/ideas for being a better/improve the role manager perhaps?