Second post

Sorry about the lateness of this post. It slipped my mind again.

I'm very happy with the way our group, Team Awesome, is getting along. The assignments for this class have helped us form a good group dynamic. We are able to effectively bounce ideas off of each other and critique each individual's writing.

We split up the document analysis assignment so that each of us had one of the five paragraphs. After writing them all we went through them one by one in the group and edited them. This was very useful, as the four others could spot things the writer couldn't. This was certainly true of my paragraph whose length was cut almost in half.

The discussion of which topic to pursue was equally group oriented. We had almost decided on our first idea, but with a little urging from yourself (assuming Prof. is reading this) we explored about ten other ideas and settled on one which had a lot more material to discuss. The period of brainstorming new ideas was fun and informative.

first week

The first few meetings of my group seem to be going well. Each member contributes fairly equally to discussions and we progress through tasks pretty quickly. One thing that I think our group could do better is criticize the ideas of our peers. We seem to accept what everyone else says as true without really analyzing it individually. I assume this trait comes from forming a project group with people you don't know. Nobody wants to offend another member.

On a more positive note, one member of our team seems to have taken leadership roles one herself. I think that this might be beneficial since within a group's dynamics, it might be best to let each person fall into the category that they feel most comfortable, as opposed to forcing someone into an ill-fitted role.

Everyone read their assignment the first week and the members of my group seem to be getting along alright, so the general tone of this post it to say that everything is going A-ok.