So far I have found our group project to be a little bit frustrating. I won’t lie, I was slightly disappointed to learn I was the group leader. Not knowing any of my team members in the real world, I am finding it difficult to assign tasks and keep the group on schedule. I think this is because I am often afraid of coming off as “bossy” or “mean” in electronic communication.

My biggest frustration was getting in touch with my group members. Only one of the three team members responded to my wiki invite right away. I have since learned that technical issues have kept the other team members from getting involved. I am now very relieved that everyone has “checked in.” For a while I thought that we would be short a member and I would have to step up to fill that role.

So far we have used the discussion board in Blackboard to talk about the project. This was frustrating because at first our board was hidden and we were using the Blackboard messaging system to talk. It has been hard for us to find a time to “meet” either in Wimba or another online method to talk all at once. I think that with our schedules this may continue to be a conflict during the project. Ideally we could find a time to get together a meet, but right now between work, classes, personal obligations, and technical issues, this doesn’t seem possible.