Journal 15

Long distance communication is hard to keep in touch with others and limits some of the things that can be done. Most of my family lives in New York so we use facetime and skype to communicate with each other. The difficult part is not knowing if the person is going to do their share of the project and if they do not you have to find be able to either stress the importance of them doing there part or you have to do it yourself. I dislike group work a lot because people do not always do their share and getting the work done is sometimes hard and the group is usually forced to work outside of class. Getting together is going to be impossible for this project so we have to rely on other means of communication like email and that sometimes is not always perfect. People forget about things and are not always going to remember and you can not be there to remind them you have to rely on them checking their email or whatever means of communication the group uses. Group projects with people not in the same area are even harder because they rely on the Internet and computers and if an individual does not have one of these necessary tools they are going to have a hard time trying to work on the project. Another factor is the fact that you do not know who these people are and how reliable and hard working there are until after they forget something or do not do their homework. I do not have a facebook page because I hate the Internet a lot and this might be a problem but it can be fix pretty easily. The communication has to be constant for everyone to know exactly what needs to be done and to check up on the others in the groups. This project should be really cool and different than others that we have done and I am excited to see how this works.