Insight guidelines

Clicking on the title of this blog entry will take you to the Insight Game, which Brandon and Desiree mentioned in class today (Jan. 25, 2010). It's sort of like a card game, with each card having two sides from which you pick and then "place" on the table. The "flip" function allows you to flip the card to the other side to see the other choice (or you can just click on the card and it will flip). You must pick one choice from each card. Sometimes this is not easy. You may find you don't like either sides of a card or that you have trouble deciding which side is most appropriate. Just try to pick what seems closest.

After you've picked a side from each card, hit "analyze" and the game will come up with a four-letter code that best represent your styles in interacting with ideas, in gathering information, and in making decisions, and in interacting with the world. It also provides a synopsis of how your personality typing might be described. Click "next" and you will see further details and cartoon illustrations of the four different aspects identified. Here I encourage you to especially look at your Learning Style because these descriptions may help you make choices about how you prepare and participate in classes.

The Insight Game is a brief, icon-driven alternative to the pen-and-paper Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionaire. It allows you to get a general idea of your four preferences in attitude or the world in which you prefer to gather ideas (Extravert/Introvert), perception or information gathering (Sensing/iNtuition), decision-making (Thinking/Feeling), and lifestyle, or relating to the outside world, (Judgment/Perception). Please take the test and then blog about your results.

WARNING: Write down your results. The website says it will email them to you, but I've taken the test a few times and have never gotten an email. Also, once you move to the cartoon details, you cannot hit "back" to check your overall score.