Gimme a “C”, Gimme an “O”, Gimme an “M”, you get the idea…

Between conversing with my teammates through the chat and our mini-group discussion boards, it seems that we all want one thing: open lines of communication. We had one person that couldn’t attend the chat, and another one that was there to start, but had to leave due to emergency; this didn’t hinder us from discussing things. Right away it was evident that there was confusion about the assignment and we worked through it and I feel that we completed it in the fashion it was meant to be done in. As part of my nature, if no one steps forward to lead a group discussion, I step forward and try to help as best as I can. Grant2u was having some troubles finding everything and seemed a little flustered with the whole online chat process, which is by all means understandable when it’s your first time experiencing it! I was lucky that most of the questions were computer-related things and I knew a lot about it, and I felt that the chat went well.

As for the responses in the other post, the idea flowing from everyone’s responses seemed again to be open lines of communication and attempting equal workloads. Ooloveshoo says that you need to “be yourself if you want to build relationships with the others”, and this definitely applies to these groups. I liked outerbodyboi’s comments because I share a lot of the same views. He also makes a very good point: “It’s okay to argue in order to learn more, but when you start to try and win the battle, that’s when it gets away from learning and works as a tool to separate us further.” A second, very poignant point is “[w]riting can be one of the most deceiving forms of communcations because you are projecting your inner emotions onto the words that someone else has written.” Working in a group online is going to have its own little problems and advantages, and singer12 states that “in order to work in a group, especially one in which physical contact is not an option, proper communication tactics are crucial.”