250 Group Experiance - 4

The group conference last Wednesday was a very beneficial step to put all our ideas and works together to draw our last project image. Everyone gave what he/she has briefly to relate it with what another member has. we discussed what each person job for this group project. We also set an appointment to record the video that we want to do for our website, and meeting to do our project.

250 Group Experiance - 3

Finding information relating to a problem is the key tool to solve it. For our issue, my job narrows to obtain statistics information about raptors collisions from different aspects. The sources I used included web-based journals and “Bird Study” book by N. L. Hodson. The information I found is number of raptors have been killed by automobiles, agricultural pesticides, and lighted communication towers, etc. I also found schedules involve to this issue such as where the accidents occurred, numbers of birds have been killed, summary of information on road causalities, and types of birds have been killed by these reasons.

From "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold

What is the writer purpose? And who is the audience?
By reading the two chapters of the “A Sand County Almanac”, which are “Wisconsin” and “The land Ethic” we can conclude that Leopold in his writing tried to bring the reader’s attention to have a human conscience towards the use of land. From “Wisconsin” the writer wants to show what is pretty in nature to enjoy it. People in Wisconsin have the likability to the cranes. Moreover, the appreciation of the bird increases when people get to know its history. This is confirmed when Leopold talks about the Holy Roman Emperor and Kublai Khan in Page 267. In “The land Ethic”, the writer comes up with a new definition to the term ethic by relating a person’s relationship to the land, animals, and plants that live on it.
The audiences are general people living on this earth.
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250 Group Experience - 2

After few days we assigned what each member of the group should do. My job is to find statistics about our issue, which is the “raptor collisions.” Tasia is responsible about getting us an appointment with the clinic. Cynthia will take the care of doing the website that we are willing to do for our project. Rico and Walter are going to find more information about the problem from different sides and aspects. So, step by step we can all achieve our goal easily.

250 Group Experience - 1

From the first day of assigning our group members I really felt excited about this type of project. Generally, when a group comprises many members, it is more likely to have one bad apple in the group, but so far I find that all members share comparable enthusiasm toward this project and we all want to get accomplish top-notch work

A Bad Apple__Group Experiance

Blog Post: Have you ever been in a group with a bad apple? How might you deal with a bad apple? Is there another kind of bad apple that the podcast did not mention?

I have worked with a group for CE 205 project for doing a bridge proposal. I found this activity is very useful way to help students communicate with each other, but at the same time it had some negative parts that came from the existing of a bad apple in the group.

Dealing with a bad apple is a very hard thing. For the CE group project we had The Slacker who always say "whatever", and "I really don't care." We dealt with that bad apple by having a good leadership, who always tried to get everyone’s idea and set the best decision at the end of our conversations. I think good leadership, inspiring leadership can turn most 'bad apples' into 'good apples'.

In-Class Group Exercise

I used to work with a group for CE 205 project for doing bridge proposal. I found it very useful, but at the same time it has some negatives. The advantages were covering the disadvantages most of the time. The group project helped me to have good communication skills, to respect the meetings, and to be more organize.

On the other hand, the disadvantages were coming from the group member actions such as being late, not replying emails, and delaying in sending the information that we suppose to gather.