More about group work
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beccaelizabethThe Group Work chapter of the Study Skills book continues to be useful.
Question is "What sort of groups have you operated in up to now? Identifying what you liked or disliked about them may give you clues about areas you will enjoy or find difficult"
so it has a nice table of "type of group, likes, dislikes"
(I bought the one with the ticky boxes and tables because I like that)
Types of groups is pretty easy, for I seldom associate with groups in 3D. There's RPG, conventions, family and college.
RPG likes include blowing things up... which admittedly class contains very little of. But there is also "making things up, invent characters, talk in character", which really suggests I could be better at drama. You know, leaving out the whole how good at it I actually was. I mean, I've had practice at pretend. I could do pretend. What is getting in the way of it to the point I only stutter in class?
The other nice thing was having a small known group that knew me and didn't kick me out, mostly. People who knew I was weird and I didn't have to watch myself so much. I mean, not that being obnoxious to friends is okay, just that you get more slack for doing it by accident.
I think.
Though there has been a shortage of 3D friends lately.
Class I'm in at the moment? About 36 people. Have discovered my line for being able to talk hovers at something like a dozen people. Any more than that and I spend more time doing the security camera thing and stuttering, or just not talking at all. So there would be one difficulty.
I don't think I could do going outside the classroom. Outside the classroom is not on my safe spaces list. It involves new places.
I mean, when we had to sit on the floor I did sitting and rocking and kind of freaked out, and that was only like a couple of feet lower than usual places. My geographic parameters are kind of small, methinks.
What I like about conventions actually overlaps with class a lot - special interests in shared texts, topic of conversation that doesn't seem geeky to those sitting around talking about it, being able to shortcut through references.
Class has less dancing.
but on the up side, much less smoking, drinking, drunk people, and ranged weaponry.
Convention crowds are not of the good. I can't really handle interacting with humans with that many people around. I try a few times but mostly I end up dancing, which is interacting with music and flashy lights, the way I do it.
College is much smaller than conventions, at least the college I am at.
Is probably a good thing I not go to UEA, which has much bigger rooms.
Family... what is the thing I like about family... Doesn't tend to make me go away. College won't make me go away either, unless I break one of the written down rules, which I don't. Mostly. I think.
Other thing I get worried about when interacting with random people is the capacity of humans for random violence. But I'm much much less worried about that lately, for it has been a very long time since anyone pushed me down the stairs or chased me with knives or dumped me in a thorn bush or any of those other things. I'd be thinking I can revise it slightly to 'capacity of juvenile humans', except I know full well that full grown humans are also violent often. It was in the local news - weekend assaults resulting in injury in Prince of Wales Road and the Riverside down from 141 last year to 31 up to August this year. (I suspect a holiday season rush and don't reckon it will stay as much of a difference as that looks, but /tangent).
What feels safer about conventions is I do not believe in the likely capacity of convention crowds for random mob violence aimed at me. I do in fact believe in their capacity for specific use of force aimed at anyone being violent at me. They might be drunk, but they're also so far reliably quite nice. And they take bugger off for an answer. Actually, they take clueless ignoring for an answer too, which limits my social life some. But it is my understanding that there are people in the world who don't take bugger off and die for an answer. I reckon if any such were at a convention the random people would be inclined to make it clearer. Be on my side.
College? Reckon people would be basically on my side. And they have security dudes too, in shiny jackets with walkie talkies. Mostly I don't see them, but any time I have to stand around outside after dark (like wait for car time) there is security dude, which is much appreciated I can tell you.
So, basically, at college I feel physically safe, I am in a group that I have seen a bunch of times before, there is a set topic which I am enthusiastic and (probably, relatively) knowledgeable about, as are the other people in the group, and I could do the making stuff up and talking in character things. All good things I like about other groups I been in.
Plus there is a lack of smoke, drunk, or ranged weaponry, which I do appreciate.
The only problems are the size of the group, the noise, the moving around and the way each group is busy about roughly the same thing in slightly different ways so it is harder to filter out stuff by context. I mean, you know the thing where you listen out for your name? Well if you try listening out for a character name and everyone is talking about the same character... it works less well.
There must be strategies to deal with these things better.
I respond by stuttering, not contributing, and kind of spacing out. I filter too much of the world and end up thinking thoughts instead of doing talking. It isn't really counting as working in a group. Though it would, if I could do the bit where I brought the thoughts back to the group once I thought them.
I tried showing people my computer, but I can type quite a lot of stuff and I don't know if they read any of it and then they don't do discussing it and it didn't work very well. Also I can't show them and keep on typing at the same time. And I like typing.
I can make it talk but it takes a half dozen menu things and the voice isn't very clear even to me with practice. I'd need a better make-talk program and better speakers before that would be practical.
I shall keep reading this chapter, and I shall see what helpful suggestions college have on Tuesday.
Question is "What sort of groups have you operated in up to now? Identifying what you liked or disliked about them may give you clues about areas you will enjoy or find difficult"
so it has a nice table of "type of group, likes, dislikes"
(I bought the one with the ticky boxes and tables because I like that)
Types of groups is pretty easy, for I seldom associate with groups in 3D. There's RPG, conventions, family and college.
RPG likes include blowing things up... which admittedly class contains very little of. But there is also "making things up, invent characters, talk in character", which really suggests I could be better at drama. You know, leaving out the whole how good at it I actually was. I mean, I've had practice at pretend. I could do pretend. What is getting in the way of it to the point I only stutter in class?
The other nice thing was having a small known group that knew me and didn't kick me out, mostly. People who knew I was weird and I didn't have to watch myself so much. I mean, not that being obnoxious to friends is okay, just that you get more slack for doing it by accident.
I think.
Though there has been a shortage of 3D friends lately.
Class I'm in at the moment? About 36 people. Have discovered my line for being able to talk hovers at something like a dozen people. Any more than that and I spend more time doing the security camera thing and stuttering, or just not talking at all. So there would be one difficulty.
I don't think I could do going outside the classroom. Outside the classroom is not on my safe spaces list. It involves new places.
I mean, when we had to sit on the floor I did sitting and rocking and kind of freaked out, and that was only like a couple of feet lower than usual places. My geographic parameters are kind of small, methinks.
What I like about conventions actually overlaps with class a lot - special interests in shared texts, topic of conversation that doesn't seem geeky to those sitting around talking about it, being able to shortcut through references.
Class has less dancing.
but on the up side, much less smoking, drinking, drunk people, and ranged weaponry.
Convention crowds are not of the good. I can't really handle interacting with humans with that many people around. I try a few times but mostly I end up dancing, which is interacting with music and flashy lights, the way I do it.
College is much smaller than conventions, at least the college I am at.
Is probably a good thing I not go to UEA, which has much bigger rooms.
Family... what is the thing I like about family... Doesn't tend to make me go away. College won't make me go away either, unless I break one of the written down rules, which I don't. Mostly. I think.
Other thing I get worried about when interacting with random people is the capacity of humans for random violence. But I'm much much less worried about that lately, for it has been a very long time since anyone pushed me down the stairs or chased me with knives or dumped me in a thorn bush or any of those other things. I'd be thinking I can revise it slightly to 'capacity of juvenile humans', except I know full well that full grown humans are also violent often. It was in the local news - weekend assaults resulting in injury in Prince of Wales Road and the Riverside down from 141 last year to 31 up to August this year. (I suspect a holiday season rush and don't reckon it will stay as much of a difference as that looks, but /tangent).
What feels safer about conventions is I do not believe in the likely capacity of convention crowds for random mob violence aimed at me. I do in fact believe in their capacity for specific use of force aimed at anyone being violent at me. They might be drunk, but they're also so far reliably quite nice. And they take bugger off for an answer. Actually, they take clueless ignoring for an answer too, which limits my social life some. But it is my understanding that there are people in the world who don't take bugger off and die for an answer. I reckon if any such were at a convention the random people would be inclined to make it clearer. Be on my side.
College? Reckon people would be basically on my side. And they have security dudes too, in shiny jackets with walkie talkies. Mostly I don't see them, but any time I have to stand around outside after dark (like wait for car time) there is security dude, which is much appreciated I can tell you.
So, basically, at college I feel physically safe, I am in a group that I have seen a bunch of times before, there is a set topic which I am enthusiastic and (probably, relatively) knowledgeable about, as are the other people in the group, and I could do the making stuff up and talking in character things. All good things I like about other groups I been in.
Plus there is a lack of smoke, drunk, or ranged weaponry, which I do appreciate.
The only problems are the size of the group, the noise, the moving around and the way each group is busy about roughly the same thing in slightly different ways so it is harder to filter out stuff by context. I mean, you know the thing where you listen out for your name? Well if you try listening out for a character name and everyone is talking about the same character... it works less well.
There must be strategies to deal with these things better.
I respond by stuttering, not contributing, and kind of spacing out. I filter too much of the world and end up thinking thoughts instead of doing talking. It isn't really counting as working in a group. Though it would, if I could do the bit where I brought the thoughts back to the group once I thought them.
I tried showing people my computer, but I can type quite a lot of stuff and I don't know if they read any of it and then they don't do discussing it and it didn't work very well. Also I can't show them and keep on typing at the same time. And I like typing.
I can make it talk but it takes a half dozen menu things and the voice isn't very clear even to me with practice. I'd need a better make-talk program and better speakers before that would be practical.
I shall keep reading this chapter, and I shall see what helpful suggestions college have on Tuesday.