I am not
going to lie. At first, being assigned a group project (especially at the end
of the semester) I was not happy. I’ve never had a good experience with group
projects. Typically, I end up doing all of the work, stress myself out, and
become resentful allowing my other group members to take credit for work they
hardly did.
But this
time was different. My group worked together perfectly, and complemented each
other’s strength’s and weaknesses. Some
had more experience with digital design, and others with writing and editing.
This made the collaborative process easier. Those who had more experience in one
field, helped the other, and so on. We worked timely and effective, and
completed the assignment days before it was due.
We broke
down the process. We all brainstormed on ideas for our TV story board and radio
PSA’s. After a long list of ideas we all decided on our theme; stop drunk
driving. We then had to decide on how to make this theme not only creative, but to reach our target audience in a different way than the typical drunk driving ads you see all the time.
After we
decided on how to portray our ideas, every member of our group chipped in. We
divided our newsletter ideas to individually write, but then gave them to each
other to peer edit. With each member being on time and helpful, this process
was made easy. Like our peer review’s in class, this was extremely helpful. By having three other group members, it allowed more than one revision, which in turn made our final papers stronger. For our TV
storyboard, we all worked together on the pictures we wanted to use as well as
sounds, time allowed, format, etc.
My group
reminded me that group projects aren’t that bad, in fact, they can be easy and
fun.
