Team Work: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly?

     My group has been working really well on our Deforestation Action Project. Here's how I feel about our teamwork thus-far: 

     What I Have Learned: This week I have learned that I am definitely a visual learner, I not only take the lead for organizing charts to help our group see what we have done and have not done, our roles, etc. but I kind of enjoy doing it? I have assigned colours to each person in the group to help differentiate tasks and keep track of progress as we fill in our group chart, and have noticed that I, personally, am a lot more productive when I do this than when I do not. 

     The Good: This is a pretty big project, and the "action" part of it is something new to me, that I have never had to do for a project before. I am really glad that this is a group project and that there is a group of 4 to share the tasks. In past projects when it came to assigning roles, all of the roles were always so similar that roles were chosen without much thought. I think that this project is teaching me, and my group members, the importance of assigning roles that connect to your interests to ensure that the project is enjoyable and well done. I think that we did a pretty good job at this, giving each group member a role that best suits them. I think this because our group has been productive and efficient. For example, since my interest was animal rights/veganism I am looking into the school's diet, and since Rikki Lee is passionate about art she is making a visual display for the school to see. Since we took the time to learn more about each group member and find roles that best suit us, we learnt a lot about our group which makes working together really easy. 

     The Bad: My group's interests and passions are very different from one another (Animal extinction, animal rights/veganism, the environment, art, reading/literature), so we chose deforestation as a way to combine them. I do think that deforestation is the topic that best combines our interests, but at the same time I feel like it is distant enough from those interests that the project overall doesn't interest us as much. I feel it was really difficult to get into a group and find something that we all happen to be passionate about. If this project was in a different course I could see it being more interesting but when I compare it to my independent project in this course, I don't feel as motivated, and I don't feel that my group does either.

     The Ugly? Rikki Lee is in charge of the display for our project and it's going to be beautiful soooo.....