Over the past two days we have been briefed over our project. It has asked us to explore the concept, theories and technologies of networks. It has been left very broad like this to allow us to come up with our very own unique, original and exciting project. It seems to have loosened the grips on our restrictions compared to last year. It will be presented and critiqued at the semester break. However, we have been told that the project will continue until the end of semester as we will be required to further look at enhancing and improving what it is we create so we can make a better version or outcome overall. As far as I can tell this will mean that this project will go on for around 3 months as well as being in the same groups.
Now a lot of what was on peoples minds was who will they be paired with for this project, but I do not think many of us understood what that meant of being part of a team for such a long period. It is all good to be with people who you can get along with and can work well together that will result in a final product. Though I do not think, that a team like this will always be able to converse and indulge in a topic, issue or concept that everyone in the team is ready or enthused enough to work on. I saw a lot of people were too scared of not being part of a team, or being with people they thought were not good enough to work with, that as long as they could stay in their comfort zone then they were happy. It seemed as though a lot of people had not discussed with the other students to see what sort of area or topic they wanted to go into, or that they had wanted to but just felt pressured into joining a group that really wanted them. On the morning of day 2 when about 75% of the class were organised into groups I had people coming up to me asking if they could join a group with me. Before I answered this I would ask "what area/topic/idea have you thought about going into first?" to which they would reply something like film or immersive games. Not that there is anything wrong with that but it just isn't what I would like to do for the 3 months on networks unless there is a really great idea already thought of involving it. I wanted to thoroughly research all possible areas about networks first before I chose the right people I was to work with and then approach them about an idea.
As I hear others discussing between themselves there seems to be a lot of opposing view points from different members, which is a good thing to get a contrast and have different opinions. This also might lead though to a dominant side overpowering the others and making the final decision if others won't speak up. It could lead to a group where only certain members want to do it their way and causing others to try and add their interests and skills that they want to do as a way of contributing. I guess if we have members who are not on the same page as what the idea or concept was constructed for then it will see a drop in what could have been a really good project only if they had talked to the right students outside of just the ones they sit by everyday.
At the end of the second day I started to realise that I will have to be like everyone else and get with the the same familiarity of members I thought could be good to work with. At least before becoming part of the group I was able to discuss to one of the members who has similar thoughts and opinions on what they want to create for this project. It will be interesting to see what we come up with as a group. I thought that the way this project has started could have been better constructed.
No comments:
Post a Comment