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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Our Wonderful class Project (plus the "how I helped" blog)
Quite frankly, I don't think the project was a very good use of our time at all. I think that enough information is available out there that is just as easy to access and probably more valuable than compiling the amount of info that we were able to put together. I think a better use of our time would have been to continue reading and discussing the various works that were produced by these people in class. You could assign it as homework for us to read, but I think that we get much more out of it when we go over it as a group in class. I know that we turned this option down when you offered it at the beginning of last week in favor of the site, but I realize now that reading would probably be better. As for my participation in the project, I felt that David and I did a pretty equal job of leading it, so we both put in the most work. I think that this could be effective, but I don't think it is going to do it if we work in groups. I think that if we work alone a separate subjects and then put all of our individual work together on the same site, then we will be able to get a lot more done. Yes it will require more individual work on each of our parts, but the quality of the work and th quantity that we will individually be able to produce will be much greater than that which we could do as a group. In a group setting, you can't take over and be the boss, and you all have to agree on what needs to go on. I feel like personally I would be able to produce better work and be more productive if I was working on something alone.
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Thanks for the thoughtful post. As I have said before, the struggle for balance in work like this is a problem, and I am not sure that anyone has completely solved it. You will find that group work is like this when you are fifty years old. Not much changes; a few do most of the work, a few sit on their hands and a few are sort of 'middling' if you know that word. I think that the skill of collaboration is important to develop, but my major focus has to be on teaching the literature and writing. Balance, balance, balance -- I keep searching for that Holy Grail.
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