2nd Reflection - I and Team

What is my unique contribution to my team? What role(s) do I play or wish to play in this project? What are your individual goals and how have you planned to attain them (action plan)?

So far, we’ve met two client groups and we’ve had about an hour meeting for discussion and summarization by ourselves. At that time, we could summary and arrange about the projects, mainly focusing on ArtSmart project, and I could recognize what and in which way each of our classmates think about the project. This made me look at the team profiles again and I was impressed with the fact that we all have a varied career which is professional. I am in the middle of human resources! Yes, I am.

Although we’ve met as students who are usually seen as a kind of pseudo-professional job in a field, we have the potential possibilities from our careers. As for me, I was a coordinator of publication of two English textbooks for a high school which supports an education for the aged students and so-called ‘back-to-school’ students from their past mistakes and wanderings. Frankly speaking, they were not good at studying but keen on learning. So I tried hard to analysis with research papers and meeting them so many times to find something more to be helpful for them.

As other classmates could have their own specialties from their careers, I am good at analyzing and summarizing with a holistic view. If once given a target, I also can go for it only. With mine and others, I believe we could accomplish our two projects which might be impossible to be completed by only each of us.

At this point, my personal goal for Artsmart is analyzing the abundant data well to organize them into a systematic design. As for Climate Change, I have an idea. I’d like to refine each activity to be a ‘one-hour’ unit for 50 or 45 min. class time, because I’ve looked them through and I’ve found that some of them consist of about 4 pages while others consist of more than 12 pages. As the first step, I want to make them have a proper quantity for one-hour class time.

Do I have adequate support, tools and guidance to work as an effective team member? A major type of support necessary to accomplish project tasks and goals is ongoing feedback provided by you to team members, and by team members to you. Consider how such feedback can best be managed within your team.

I think ongoing feedback is helpful as much as a lighthouse at night. Feedbacks from other classmates could make us see the backside of things and something missed. It will help us reach to the in-depth working and finally we can get the elaborated more refined result.

On the other hand, I just imagine what if we have more feedback-buddies than only one? The original role of a feedback-buddy is giving a partner a good idea or suggestion which the partner might have missed. I suppose if we give and take altogether, we can have more chances to develop.

Does our team have a shared vision of what is to be accomplished? If so, Explain from your own perspective what that shared vision is?

As for ArtSmart, frankly speaking, not so much things have been decided yet, but at least we might have a common opinion that we could make a holistic plan for ArtSmart by the end of this year and realize it through next semester. One thing we have defined somewhat clearly is we could design ArtSmart materials into web-based one. For this goal, maybe we could meet the staff from the museum and define each other’s role in detail for using their web-based database.

We also have a shared vision for Climate Change that we could provide more concrete suggestion for it because its materials have been already developed and are waiting for being refined in terms of templates, formats, and other detail designs to make them better instructional materials.