group task work so far

It was an interesting start. I didn't engage until quite late in the time we had to do the task, but by the time I had I saw that there quite a few posts from people trying to arrange a hookup meeting for last week, but it looked as though not everyone had been able to commit to a time or place.

So I suppose we were on our back foot somewhat. I'd just come out of a task in DET which had involved quite a lot of groupwork so was used to talking with people online and getting things done with quite animated team mates. And the group in CIE was new to me for the most part so I had to build up to it again.

Aside from suggesting times for synchrounous meetings I tried to start a new thread examining the task - because it would be embarrassing if we would know what to talk about once online, and a couple of the distance students engaged with that, and a new thread was started that looked at timetabling the owkr and how were we going to tackle it. Here I found that there was a difference of opininon in the group as one team mate I think was a bit stressed by the lack of time and suggested that rather than trying to work on it together for each person to form their own mini presentation and then join these together. One of the other team mates expressed concern at that in probably producing a quite disjointed presentation. The first poster said that she had a friend who did this course last year and that's how she did it.

I can understand this, and it's good to use other people's wisdom if you can, but I think that I have come across this way of working before often by people who are worried that other people aren't pulling their weight, or are stressed that the task will not take place in the time given, or it seems too complicated to coordinate. I suppose I feel a bit dissappointed (I posted as much) because I want it to be a fun and interesting presentation and it will seem as though we've all done a mini presentation each.

One way forward has been put and that is to tackle this chronologically - only no-one is yet revealing what they will cover!