Blog Assignment 6

Introduction:
This is a report of the progression of my group's collaborative work on the proposal project as well as the podcast project. We have discussed the projects and how to improve on completing them for the last couple of weeks. The purpose of the projects seems to help the student (myself) to better understand working in group environment, mainly because many jobs consist of group work and it would be wise to get a head start on how they work. My group, however, hasn't really taken off until the last couple of days. We tried to set up a group meeting the previous week but no one in the group pushed to organize an exact time to meet so it was basically skipped. I usually push meetings and organize a time but I have been rather busy lately with other unrelated work such as other classes and lab reports so I have felt rather distracted from the English projects.

Facts and Discussion:
With other school work calming down a little my group found a little time to get together to set up some work times and meetings. We are currently a little behind on schedule with the group having just now started to gather information needed to complete it. The group has recently gotten down a better meeting schedule and method of contact to work on the project when we aren't together via email. With our information being processed this weekend, hopefully our group will have a decent rough draft available by the end of the week. This will help our group stay organized and keep up the pace on completing the project. If all goes well in the week our group should start finishing up the project and have a good idea what what we need to add the finishing touches by 1-2 weeks.

Conclusion:
Overall the group's work seems to be going smoothly since the first take off. Even though we had a late start I think we should be fine even though things should get a little hectic when putting the final pieces together. I am hoping that nothing extreme happens this week to prevent the group from meeting, but as of now, everything should go as planned. One problem I see in the future would be the lack of face to face interaction with my group members. We lack the timing to meet more often so we are relying on email and telephone contact to put together our project. This not only slows down the group progress, but makes things very difficult to revise. Questions are answered slower, and communication between the members can become blurred.

Recommendations:
Ultimately it is our job to complete the assignment with the given due date. Even though I always welcome an extended due date, I think the current one is acceptable. I think there needs to be in class time to work on the projects where questions could be asked and groups could collaborate. I am aware that we are currently given time to do this, but I think with the due date coming up most groups would not take this time for granted. I would definitely use the time to help finish the project and having questions answered on the spot would be awesome.