Groupwork

I like the members of my group, and generally, I am fine with groupwork and discussion---getting ideas from one another. However, when it comes to actually producing a product, especially a written one, it is so difficult to do this with so many contributors. I am glad our group decided to do all the brainstorming and planning together and let one person come up with the rough draft for our case brief. We can still all put in our two cents once it is written, but it will be more clearly flowing and unified if one person generates the text.

Tonight I was frustrated with our groupwork because my network connection wasn't consistent at home and I actually got kicked out for several minutes. That was irritating. Also, we were not successful in getting a document up that we could all see in Teleplace and edit there, so our session was not as productive as I had hoped. We should have been able to pull up our Word document of the planning of the case brief, discuss and edit right there in Teleplace, with however many of us wanted to contribute comments (just one at a time, I understand). Instead, we had one member typing and the rest of us talking. Only the typist could see the document that was being edited. It was disappointing--gotta figure out how that works right before the next document is due. I am one of these people that has a hard time adjusting if things don't work out according to my expectations. I knew we were so close to getting it set up but we didn't really want to take the time to get it fixed just right before jumping in to get the work done. I would rather take the time and "do it right" than settle for less. Sometimes this is a strength and sometimes it is a weakness.