Let's Make a Deal!

When trying to come to a decision about how we wanted to handle our test grades i took an accommodating approach. i think that after we got the curve i felt super lucky and would have been fine if it was just that. so when people wanted more it was not so important to me but i could understand why it would be. also when people were trying to take parts of the test away i was against it only because i know that people have different ways of learning and testing. to take parts away was just not going to be fair to some peoples strengths and weaknesses.
In the class i feel like there was a lot of people who were in "compete to win" and "Avoidance" modes. many of the people who ended up in the from of the class and took charge were compete to win. they wanted all that they could get that would help them. i saw a few other people who were trying to get something fair for everyone.
I'm not sure that one method would have been any better for ME personally to take. i think that if there had been a more powerful leader and more people thinking of others. more people in an accommodation mind set. i personally think that when you start thinking of  how to be fair to other people and what they need is when you get the most. i think that in our situation that would have been the best thing to do. i think that a collaborative approach would have taken too much time and would have made things to tense.

Not all its Cracked Up to Be

Let me just say first that my group failed miserably at this task. When our egg hit the floor there was Egg lacking out from all over. This however comes as no surprise to me because even before we went over the effective planing step it was obvious my group did not have it going on.

looking at the steps i can safely say that we did the first one, and this is only because it was pretty much laid out for us. What was wanted and expected of us was on the board from the start so there was not a lot of effort on our part that went in to the first step. i would also say that we did half of the third step. as each new idea came up (and there were quite a few) we looked at how that would impact the egg and what would need to be done to put it together ie: would we have to cut a lot of the straws, would we need to maneuver the straws into unnatural shapes. lastly we did half of the fourth step, which was we picked an idea (it was not the best one that we had) and we kind of gave rolls out as we went (there was no rolls given out before the materials were given out.) i guess everyone did the last step because we all put something together. however once we started putting our failing contraption together we did not stop to revise it and make it better we just went for it. not the smartest idea ever.

I would say that we bypassed the most important aspects of the steps we did take and the second step all together. at no point did talking about what we might know come up. i might have mentioned that i wish i payed better attention in physics now but that was as far as it went. i think this happened because we were so flustered by this seemingly impossible task in such a short amount of time.

so did we the outcome represent the amount of effective planing that went into this, yes! the contraption we made failed just as our planing did. i think that the part we missed was that of assessing skills and deciding on a plan to go with. we were still arguing about what we were going to do when we finally got the egg. at that point we just did what ever we felt like, there was no good planning in that chaotic phase either.
overall we were just not well organized.