Rough 9 weeks…

These past 9 weeks have been full of learning curves and stress. For some weird reason I felt stressed by this project. A few weeks ago I made a big decision, to leave my group. They were great people, but we were getting nowhere. It took the whole nine weeks for them to finally order a computer, which was something we had planned to order the first week. Progress was slow, terribly slow. So I left the group to spend more time on my own youtube channel TechMenGaming which has grown rapidly these past few weeks. But after leaving my previous group, I realized I had learned quite a bit and I would like to tell you all I have learned. First of all, GET THINGS DONE! If you have a computer you want to order, ORDER IT! Do not wait any longer, the goal is to get as much progress made as possible, and waiting to do things will get you nowhere. Secondly, MOTIVATE YOURSELF!!! This is a big one since I felt as though our group had no motivation what-so-ever to do anything. If you can motivate yourself to get work done, you can motivate others. Finally, PLAN AHEAD! My group could not plan ahead worth crap. For the first few weeks the focus was on the computer, when I tried to get them thinking about the future, they would come back and say we need to focus on the computer, which was true. BUT, planning ahead would've helped our group accomplish more work, which equals progress being made. Even through all this chaos, I managed to think ahead and get things planned. That being said, I was only able to cover a single Indiana Educational standard:

CIG-1.7 Apply brainstorming techniques to develop many possible solutions

Since that is all said and done, I am asking for a grand total, of 20 points for this project. Why? Simple, this class is not about success at the go, its not about success the second time, or the third. It is about learning what went wrong, and how changing the wrongs to rights can prove to be successful in the future. I believe, that what happened here is a prime example of this class. A great idea spiraled out of control and failed, but the failure, is what I figured out, and I can now use that knowledge to help, not only others, but myself in the future.

• Andrew Rexrode