1). Discuss your Group Observation Project. Was it a useful exercise?
What did you learn? What was good about the project? What can be
improved?
My group project observation project consisted of me observing my kids daycare. I chose this group because I am fond of people who have a daycare, teachers mainly anyone who is charge of watching kids in some sort. In my project I really had a great time doing this because I got to get hands on experience of what is what like to be in this profession. For those of us who have kids can attest to the fact that we would like to be around our kids 24/7 if we could. We all know that is unrealistic, we have jobs and responsibilities so when the time comes for us to go to work our kids must go to school. Nevertheless observing this group gave me chance to be a daycare provider. I know the assignment said to observe but I could not help myself. I felt the best way for me to observe was to engage and assist with the children and person in charge.
This exercise was useful because like I said I am fond of this type of work and if I do not find a job in the communication field I probably will go into this field of work. After all we all are going to need some type of daycare at some point in our lives, for those of us who have kids and for those who will have kids. I learned that this type of work is vastly under appreciated. It is a lot work watching someone else kids. There is so much that goes in the being prepared. You have to make sure you have enough food, supplies to keep them entertained as well as.
What I liked about this project was that we got to chose the group we wanted to observe. This gave us the chance to carefully chose what we felt was best for us. Some people chose to view volleyball teams while one group decided to step out of their normal position into a different position that they never had done.
What I would change about this project is I would probably make this a group effort. Maybe the assignment could be offered as group project that way it gives us a chance to interact with classmates as well the project itself.
Hi mrgonzalez0316. I enjoyed reading you discussion post because you explained what group you observed for the project. Your group choice was creative and it was interesting to read your feedback about the project. I also thought that you provided a different aspect in your paper: how you joined in on the fun (: I feel that by using that aspect in your paper, you lured your audience to keep reading because it's something different.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of your discussion post, your idea of change was a good suggestion. After reading it, I thought, "This is a small group communication class." Although the project was already fun to do, doing it as a group would've given us (the students) more insight about small group communication. Very creative, good job!