Working in a group is about collaborating together to form something better than what you could do by yourself. I personally have never really enjoyed working on projects in a group as there is always a person or two that are left to complete the assignment alone. Group work requires cooperation which according to Meaningful Learning with Technology requires conversation among peers. during conversation they can socially negotiate their understanding of the task and the method they can use to finish it.(Jonassen,D. Howland, J. Marra, R and Crismond, D, 2008)

Communication was definately something we lack in this group. After sending numerous text messages and emails to the other girls in the group for assignment three with no reply I begun to feel stressed as it is a group assignment and we all recieve the same mark for the work. I did not want anyones lack of commitment to reflect back on the work that was handed in. Jess and I had asked for the work to be loaded on to Wikispaces by sunday night so that we could make the video and double check that it met the criteria. By Tuesday the Task page and the Teacher Information page had still not been loaded.
On Tuesday night I recieved an email from one of the girls apologizing because she had not done it yet because of personal reasons and would do it that night. On wednesay I woke up to the Task and Teacher Information complete, needless to say Jess and I were very relieved.

We spent the next few hours tweeking things to make sure that every page had the correct information and looked attractive enough before it came time to make the video. We decided to use the program Jing as neither of us had used it before and felt it would be quite interesting to learn to use it. It took a lot of takes before we were finally happy with the results of the video as the microphone we used was a bit old and therefore a bit fuzzy. I tried to upload it to the homepage of Digesting Technology but it had cut half of the screen off and you could not see the whole screen. We recorded it again thinking it was something to do with the way we had positioned the screen but it wasn't and it did the same thing. After much playing around with it, I decided to stretch the screen to see if that solved our problem and it did.

I was so relieved when we had finished the assignment that I couldn't wait to hand it in. To say I was happy with the work that was done would be a lie, I wasn't. With all the breaks in between workshops, group members not showing up and lack of communication and response from other group members I feel it will reflect badly on the marks. Next time I think I will create study sessions in the library when we can all make it so that we are able to actually communicate in person and answer each others questions. 



                                                              
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