Last Thoughts about our Team Process

This week our team finished up our team paper. We used a wiki to create our document. After developing an outline each one of us developed a section that was of most interest to us. Once we all submitted our sections we all worked on editing and tying everything together. This was the most challenging part of this assignment. It is difficult when many minds are working on one document. Having your ideas deleted or added to can make you feel that your writing isn't adequate. It is also hard to make the decision to change or add to someone else's section without feeling uncomfortable. It is hard to make executive decisions untill you have everyone's "ok". I do believe that the process in creating this paper was the main object of the assignment. Learning to work as a team has its' challenges but it is part of developing a positive online learning community. Out team probably called eachother more than anyone else has (atleast in my opinion). Perhaps this is because each one of us had different interpretations of the assignment and team roles. Getting this important clarification was essential in our team process. Overall, I think I learned a lot about the team process. Some members are okay with a little bit of chaos at first and others tend to panic when things aren't completely detailed at first. Flexibility, I believe, is important but each member has to be willing to put in 100% effort to make sure the workload is shared amoung all members. The biggest challenge our team had was that most of us have really busy lives and had to do the majority of team work towards the end of the week.
Will assessment direct your final paper research?
We did use the rubric to guide our research and writing of our paper. We tried to use the guidlines to help create a polished paper, ready for submission.