Asher's+report

  What were the largest challenges with a team assignment?

There is no doubt that people always have some problems when they are doing group work. This assessment requires 3 group members work together to design, create and contribute to a blog which focused on one topic. During those working weeks, we faced a lot of problems, which includes choosing topic, plan design, individual job completed on time and so on. Among problems, the communication problem is the biggest barrier to our team assignment. In the group work, every step, which was done by individual, should be consistent with others. However, every member have different timetable everyday, we can use the mobile phone or MSN to communicate others anytime. Moreover, the traditional E-mail way costs too much time to sent and receive mail, so it is inefficient. For example, if we have different opinion about detail of next blog, it is not easy to express cleanly just by talking and costs too much time by sending and receiving E-mail. For this largest challenge during our work, we use the Wikispace to solve it. When I get my idea about next blog, I will write its structure and main ideas on the Wikispaces, and the member A can see, check and revise my first draft at anytime. After that, member B also can check and add new idea on this blog draft to make it better. In the end, I can complete this blog by combining others’ ideas and suggestions. What is more, members can use this way to supervise others working on time.