Situation Shuffle

Last Thursday we were put into teams of 4 and given certain roles to play as we completed tasks around Auckland city. The roles were :
The Actuator - the subject of the work.
The Controller - directs the Actuator.
The Tracker - charts the progress of the Actuator.
The Sensor - sits outside the group and observes it.

We recorded what happened and used this to present the next day to the class as a presentation. We used skills that the group had such as how to use editing programs and techniques to improve our presentation.

You can find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybdR7IXnaE0

I found our group did not read the instructions well and did not get the full idea of the project. We seemed to focus on what we wanted our project to be rather than try some ideas and see what it comes up with, which may have restricted us a bit. A big issue that came up was how we were going to end our project, we had a good idea and went with it but did not think about the ending until the last 15 minutes of the project. This caused us to have some quick thinking and might have caused the story of our project to deteriorate by not having the ending that we wanted.

As the sensor I found I may have been too involved in the project rather than observing and couldn't focus on the other roles in my team other than the Actuator, this was to make our technique work. It also caused me to observe the members of the public towards me and the Actuator in good detail.

Overall I found we performed well under the circumstances but has taught me that if we keep things open we will be able to chose on a idea that works well rather than stay on the first good idea we have.