Blog Post #3 Egypt Project Reflections

Blog Post #3

I think that both the pharaoh project and the day in the life of an Egyptian were a big success. I think that most of use did our fair share but I think that JD did a little less in the pharaoh project but I think that he made up for it by doing a great job on the editing and the final draft of the video. He also did a great job on taking on the challenge of two jobs. Is a bell did a great job as the lead historian and Lucas and I made a great team writing the script and the summery. In my opinion I think that we all did an equal amount of good quality work

I think that If I could change the way the two projects, I would probably change the script a little. I thought they were going to change houses but we ended up focussing more on Seti's house and most of the video ended up being in his house. I wish we could focus more on Ramses' house and what it was like. It ended up being all about the flood and the other house. I wish we could have gotten more time to make it longer and with more detail. The last thing that I wish would have happened is that I wanted some props or costumes for our play. It ended up just being puppets running around with different backgrounds. I think that if we added this little things, it would have made the movie a lot better.

Blog Post #2 Group dynamics 

            When I am in a group of a bout four I usualy take charge and come up with ideas, give constructive criticism and be a team player. I love to give feedback and tell some one f it is a good idea or if they should rethink it. I like to get feed back and make my writing better. I like to be the leader in a group because it makes you feel good when you give a good idea and they use it in the final draft. You also get a lot of credit for all of the things you did. I love to work with my friends. It is fun when you work with your friends because you know how each other think and how you work the best. The problem when you work with a friend is that sometimes you can get distracted and not work as hard or very well. If some one is trying to dominate the group and only thy give ideas I think it is bad yet good. They are showing that they are enthusiastic and that they want to do well in that project. The problem with that is other people might want to give their ideas and they don't get a chance to tell them. I have been in a group with all of my friends but they did little to no work and all they did was goof off and play games while I wanted to get a good grade and I worked my butt of trying to get it done. It was frustrating how I did most of the work and yet they go a lot of credit for stuff they did not do. You have to do what you have to do. That is why I like it when you grade us depending on how much the indivigual did.

The cream puff Treat

If I was Holling first I would tell every one that I did not eat a cream puff and I would show every one the chalked up cream puff in the trash. Some advantages: I would convince some people that I did not eat a cream puff. If some people did not see the very obvious proof then I would know that they are jerks or they are going crazy. Some disadvantages: someone could have taken out the trash and there would not be a cream puff in there or people would still be jealous that I got offered a cream puff and would still threaten me'

Another option would just ignore all of them and tell them that I would not get them a cream puff and that if they tried to hurt me that they would get in trouble for lying a finger on me. Advantages: My real friends would believe me and would protect me from any one that would like to kill me and i would be safe forever. Disadvantages: People could get mad at my response and beat me up behind the teacher backs. I could loose all of my friends and I would become lonely.