Group Project Reflection

Looking back on the past couple weeks on the project, I think we have done some valuable work that will help us on making our final conclusions with this project. This task differed from the way I normally do things as like I said in the last journal, English is not usually a group project class. I have greatly improved my communication with the team which is the key to success when in a group. Even though we have done previous projects with each other, there is always room for improvement in communication which I think we have all worked well to get better at. Some difficulties that we as a group have faced would be mainly finding a day in common with each other, and the person we interview as sometimes our schedules are so busy with sports, jobs, and extracurriculars that it is hard to find time. For example, when trying to find a date that worked for everyone with our first interviewee, we had listed some dates where we could meet, when we later found out that some of us would be busy most of those days due to last minute notice from different sources like managers and coaches. Something that made this task easier for me, would be that for our first interviewee, Twiladawn Stonefish, I happen to know her and her family quite well which helped with the interview process and comfortableness. To do this work effectively, we had a consistent group chat running on our phones that we could brainstorm ideas, keep reminders for each other to get certain tasks done, and other messages like when Andrew sent me a text saying, “Don’t forget to bring your computer for the downloading of the interview”, which helped me as I was about to forget! We monitored our progress weekly by looking at the due dates that were coming up and looking ahead to see what we have due next. Since there wasn’t a whole lot, we usually have a constant running group chat that we discuss weekly tasks and goals. I did not have to make any adjustments this time as there was no worksheets due or any written work. We have only been doing research and did an interview; it went fairly …show more content…
To get ready to learn, I always kept on topic when discussing our project. During the interview, I made sure that all of the setup was proper in a sense that everyone would be able to be seen. I also did a couple test runs to make sure that the videotaping process would run smoothly. Things that got in the way of my learning or got in the way of completing my best work would be my recent sports injury, which has taken a lot of possible project time out of my schedule as I’ve been rushing it to get better. Things that have also gotten in the way as a group, is that Jake and Andrew both have jobs that can sometimes take up some of their time both on weekends and weekdays which can make some tasks take a bit longer than usual. Reflecting back on the past couple weeks, I really understood what I was learning by my ability to actually describe my findings with my parents so far and kind of have a non-videotaped interview with them as well to get their point of views as well. This differs from my last Metacognitive Journal as my parents have also done research so they can have more input on what I have to