Wiki+Reflections

Avilasha's Wiki Reflection

I would very much wish to change my group's approach to this assignment. From the get go, we were focused on the fun stuff such as designing the wiki and choosing colors for thing such as the motto. The list of priorities was neglected as we were more inclined to do what was fun and creative instead of the harder, more tedious work such as the List of Rules and Declaration of Independence. I believe the main reason for this was our personalities since we valued creative and colorful tasks instead of more serious tasks such as the rules. That is why things such as the Declaration of Independence and the Daily Itinerary were finished last. This is a common problem in group work for you do not truly know the difficulty of an assignment until you are doing it. Before work was started on the Wiki, it was easy to get an overview of what is to be done but when you actually start the assignment, you have to tweak the time allotted to a certain task and by tweaking that, you also feel necessary to tweak priorities which led to my group's problems. I would have changed this work ethic to tackling the difficult tasks first and to then do the easier more fun ones. That way, we would not realize towards the end of the deadline that only boring tasks were ahead of us and nothing fun to look forwards to.

On the subject of creative differences, there were many small ones but not any major ones. From time to time, my partner and I would disagree on small things such as picture size, color of something, or small formatting issues. There was no instance where we were completely divided on anything including these small issues. We were able to settle issues diplomatically through compromise. I although wish we could have changed how one partner was not as good as expressing opinions as an other. It is important to communicate one's thoughts and feelings, especially when no one else is busy talking. The communication skills could have been improved.

Our group was overall successful. We were able to finish the tasks on time which was a good thing. Our group had continuous enthusiasm towards this project and were willing to work hard. We even had enough time at the end to add creative details to the wiki such as a movie and glitter text. This combination of enthusiasm and hard work made our group successful and makes me want to do an assignment such as this one again. The next time I do a project like this, I will be sure that the group communication and prioritizing is better to make our group more successful.

Avilasha Sinha