Group Activity Reflection

As a student, I have always found group-work to be especially challenging.  These challenges include: Trying to split the work up evenly, designating a task for each person, making sure no one slacks off, and finishing on time. For this interactivity, the group process was overall, authentic collaborative. We each researched our own information and then entered it into the table on Google Spreadsheets. Therefore, we were all doing our own work, but coming together by sharing one spreadsheet and helping each other with ideas.

For this project, though most of the activity was individual, we needed to communicate with one another through email and phone. Without collaborating in this way, our chart would not be as clear or uniform. This does not mean we did not encounter a few problems! Though the chart was pre-made for everyone, an idea to make it easier, some had problems entering their information into the table so that it looked uniform with the pre-made portions. We then had to adapt our strategy, and I aided them through the process of editing the spreadsheet. I believe in order for a project to be “authentically collaborative,” each group member must be adaptable, accountable, and responsible, as all of us were.