Working in Groups
This week during our Thursday workshop class, Smilijana posed a question to us:
"Do you prefer working in groups of two or three?"
During this course, I have worked in a group of two and a group of three, and I think I preferred working in the group of three. There were more ideas flowing, and coming up with ideas felt more like a group brainstorm session, whereas sometimes in groups of two it feels like each person's idea is going against the other (like it's a bit of a competition). Also, in a practical sense, working in a group of three is better because if one person is sick or away at least you still have another group member you can still work with. I think it's also more beneficial because in the group of three, there were two creative writing students so it felt like it wasn't just my responsibility to be in charge of the creative side of things.
In saying this, I also enjoyed working in the group of two. I really got along with the other student and we both learned a lot from each other as I did creative writing and she is a media student. What I found difficult was that I was in charge of the creative side, where she was in charge of the editing. This meant that neither of us really got a chance to try something new (e.g I didn't do much of the editing), and maybe if we both tried each others specialities we would have come up with a completely different end product.
This week during our Thursday workshop class, Smilijana posed a question to us:
"Do you prefer working in groups of two or three?"
During this course, I have worked in a group of two and a group of three, and I think I preferred working in the group of three. There were more ideas flowing, and coming up with ideas felt more like a group brainstorm session, whereas sometimes in groups of two it feels like each person's idea is going against the other (like it's a bit of a competition). Also, in a practical sense, working in a group of three is better because if one person is sick or away at least you still have another group member you can still work with. I think it's also more beneficial because in the group of three, there were two creative writing students so it felt like it wasn't just my responsibility to be in charge of the creative side of things.
In saying this, I also enjoyed working in the group of two. I really got along with the other student and we both learned a lot from each other as I did creative writing and she is a media student. What I found difficult was that I was in charge of the creative side, where she was in charge of the editing. This meant that neither of us really got a chance to try something new (e.g I didn't do much of the editing), and maybe if we both tried each others specialities we would have come up with a completely different end product.
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