Group Reflections

The communication between my group members occurred almost exclusively through text, aside from a few minutes this one day that we agreed to meet outside of class. What's interesting is that during that meeting, we didn't necessarily work on anything, but rather we showed up (most of us) and spent the 10 or 15 minutes becoming briefly acquainted instead. That wasn't the plan technically, but without knowing it, that was what our group needed.

Before this, our group's communication was stilted and impersonal. While all of us had exchanged our numbers, I, myself, hadn't taken the time to save any of their information into my "contacts" and literally did not know for a while who I was communicating with as anyone other than "a person from my group". In other situations in which I had worked with peers I hadn't been acquainted with beforehand and had to communicate virtually with, we had at the very least communicated via Facebook, which somehow feels a little less impersonal when you see a group member's picture pop up whenever they write something, instead of a grey blob of text. So, I am glad we had the foresight to meet, as that improved our communication drastically.

Beforehand, the communication was led by one person and very few would offer their own ideas, going along with what was presented, whereas afterwards the communication was much more equally spread and effective.