In Class Reflection Week 5

This week in class, we worked on two major things.  Primarily, we were concerned with our practice presentation.  We've done a lot of work on the storefront project, and we want our presentation to show that.  I think the presentation went fairly well.  We had a few criticisms about numbers being hard to understand and a lack of valuable images, but overall, I think that we can fix these problems and move on with a great presentation.  I trust our group, so I'm not overly worried about fixing the presentation and presenting successfully in front of our judges.  However, it was rather the second thing we worked on this week that concerned me more.


Last week, we each put together our own 360 Eval sheet.  This meant evaluating and basically grading the members of your group.  This was a point of tension.  Although everybody in the group contributed, not everybody contributed equally.  I think all of us, or at least 4 out of 5 of us reached that conclusion.  The work that our group did was spread out mostly amongst four of us, the other shall remained unnamed for the sake of privacy on the internet (you'll know who the 5th is when you read the eval).  As the 5th member learned how we all felt, he obviously felt hurt and disappointed.  There was actually a whole class period where we basically argued over what was going to happen for the evals.  Each of us, including me, gave him a lower percentage than the rest of us.  I felt really bad about this, because he was a pleasure to have in the group, and he did do work.  I felt as if I had just thrown him under the bus.  I hope that everything turns out ok for him, and during our meeting I think it's important that we all show that we did value his contributions.