This was the first time that I was assigned a project for an online class. So, my expectation for the assignment was set very high and was hoping that my group shared the same value. At the beginning of the week, we sent out emails then agreed that GroupMe would be the perfect communication for us. Most of the group members kinda waited until Saturday morning of this week to respond back, each member explains their collaboration preference sheet which leads to the group meeting notes that my group member submitted that night.
Then we discuss the timeline of the project along with the positions. With this online project, I feel that the difficult part for us was finding time to work together as a team also collaborating together effectively. In the past, I experienced group members not participating slacking off and then I have to complete all the work myself for an in-class assignment. One of the most important steps to being a successful online group member is to get to know the other group members as soon as possible (Richardson,2004). I feel that this statement is very true for any group assignment and if my group did this then we will not have a problem, to begin with.
This difficulty happen because I feel that we did not share our values at the beginning of this assignments. I feel that we all contributed to this because we didn’t respond quickly to the email. For this, I know for sure we can overcome this issue by using Google to share notes along with GroupMe so that we can have a great time to complete this assignment. The complexities of today’s technologically supported, information-based global workplace present challenges to collaboration in business, industry, and government (Richardson,2004).GroupMe, Google and Microsoft office are technologies that will help me facilitate group processes in future projects and will definitely improve my skills now by using these technologies now in my everyday life.