Week 13 Current Event "Group Communication"

       It has been an interesting semester, meeting and working with people, through an online Education Technology course.  We learned new various ways of approaching technology and our group, "The Greenfoots", handled our group discussions effectively. Based upon the feedback of this weeks' current event, our group came up with several similar opinions on which forms of communication we connected the best on.  We all agreed that emailing, texting, and looking at the forums weekly were our fastest forms of communication and most convenient ways to update each other with information.  We also felt that face-to-face meetings were the most effective because that way we were able to meet each other in person and discuss through the tasks we had to complete as a group assignment.  Natalie made a good point however that whenever there are major group projects due, the group must always set up a game plan in which all the tasks are assigned, and each member of the group would be fulfilling a role towards completing the assignment.  The downfall of group meetings however, mentioned by Shyann, that everyone schedules might not work out with each others', and some people might be too busy to make it to meetings at times.  Aaron and Jasmin both agreed that emailing was the best form of communication and I also agree, because it is the fastest means of connection and probably the easiest way to get a hold with each other.  
        All in all everyone did a great job contributing and we worked together really well.  We thoroughly discussed current events and when it was time to do their role of the week, the assignment was completed.  Everyone was responsible for their duties and I personally liked how we stayed with the rotation schedule for the weekly current events.  I appreciate that however some of us may have had different learning styles, we still had the capability to communicate and understand the concerns each of us had toward working through any assignment.  This education technology course will definite benefit us in the long run, when we finally become teachers and would then need to incorporate technology, as a means of communication in the classroom.

(picture by Natalie)