Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The dreaded group project

I understand why it's important to have interaction with your classmates, but group projects are usually challenging for me as a student.  In my undergrad at UMUC, I had many instances where the group project went poorly.  This was primarily due to students having competing priorities and poor communication. 

My first group project in MDE last semester went surprisingly well.  The group wiki project for this class was interesting in that this is the first group project that I had that didn't utilize the group project module in Webtycho.  I was challenged in the beginning not having the ability to communicate with my fellow group members via the group project conference.  Some of the emails in our class member roster don't appear to be the primary email for some of the members.   This created a challenge because there was a time lag in responses.  Once we got the emails straightened out, communciation became easier. 

If I had to give any feedback on this assignment, it would be to allow the group to communicate within the webtycho group project conference.  This is a better record of what transpired between the group members.   If there is an issue with someone not participating, it would become clear using this tool.

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