schedules. In the past when we have worked in groups, we have been able to choose our group members. Because of this, we usually have things in common and it is easier to meet since we pretty much have similar schedules. However, we were working with a very diverse group that included a basketball player with practices and games; a fraternity member with meetings and special events; a member of the band with games, rehearsals, and concerts; and one who is married, lives off-campus, and works a full-time job. It was very hard to arrange meetings to where everyone can attend. We did however set the meetings when everyone was free, but there were many times when someone would not show up and not let anyone know why. This made it hard to keep everyone up-to-date on what we were talking about at that particular meeting. We had a central location for meetings so we would only have to set up the time and day. During this project, we had to learn to trust our group members more than in the past. There was a lot of work that was individualized and then brought to the group and used for the project. We split up several tasks and tried to keep the workload equaled out, but even with this idea, some of the work was not evenly matched and some members ended up pulling a heavier load than others. We worked together to make decisions by putting all ideas on the table and then discussing them in order to weed out the weaker ones. We had problems finding the right type of resources that we wanted to support our project topic. Many were too vague or did not pertain enough to the topic we wanted information on. We learnt that we had to keep narrowing down the topic being searched to find the information we needed.We feel that our group improved overall throughout the course of the semester. The more that we worked together the better we worked together. It was easier once we knew how everyone else’s work ethics and how they usually w...
