Blog: Day Four




Positive things that happened during working working in a group for our stop motion project: It was nice to use each person's skills to achieve our goal. Daniel is the illustrator so he was good at making our sea monster. I can do origami so I made the paper crane. We were also able to bounce ideas off of each other to expand our idea or not do an idea that wouldn't have worked very well.

When working in a group, it is very different from producing your own work because there is usually some compromise on what the final product is and how it turns out. When working on your own, you have complete control and the outcome depends on you. I'm not always the best working in a group, since I usually want to do it my own way, but sometimes it is necessary. Take the last two days- I did end up doing most of the work, but it's not like I asked not to either or stepped aside from my computer to have someone else work on the project. That is one problem with doing technology work in a group. AirDrop allows for easier collaboration, but you can't live edit an iMovie like you could, say, a Google Doc.

 With students, I would need to have defined roles for the members of the group or the same thing would likely happen as usually does to me. That way, there is a specific thing each student needs to be doing and no one is just sitting there watching the other group members work. I've done stop motion with students working on their own, so I will need to try it in groups for next year and see how it goes.




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