Collaboration Revisited

Today we had another group activity in class.  The students in class have been exposed to many different collaboration techniques this semester.  I think they now have the tools to examine the situation and determine the best way to work together to complete the activity.

This time I gave them too much work for one person to complete.  The only way to complete the activity in the limited time provided was to divide the work so that each group member completed a small part.  In the end, each student had a separate file that was shared with the group.

They got it.  Each group spent a few minutes deciding how the work would be done.  A couple people needed some help with the process.  The stronger members of the team helped the weaker ones. 

In the end, the individual files had to be consolidated.  Most of the groups used USB flash drives to swap files.  I did see one group use email to send the files to each other.