To begin this assignment, we were first told to find groups that we could complete the assignment with. The group I chose to work with was a familiar one for me as we have worked together before in a couple of previous assignments. This worked well for all of us as it allowed us to work to each other’s strengths, delegating different tasks dependant on this. I personally excelled more at the online side of things. This lead to me stepping up more to create the actual blog post and present the information in an aesthetically pleasing manner. As a group, we do not think that ‘Wordpress’ is the easiest site to use, meaning it took a fair bit of perseverance from me to completely figure out how to use it. Other roles were also given based on other people’s strengths. For example, we picked our strongest speaker to speak over the campaign video, while others helped with the script writing. Furthermore, we all played a part in writing for Post 1 and 3, while the references, for post 4 came in conjunction with this. I focused a larger portion of my efforts onto the ‘Critiques of social media’ section. I figured I could excel more at this again, due to me being more comfortable with writing things from the internet.
As for overall performance, our team worked increasingly well. Being confident in each other allowed us to work to our strengths and not have to worry about covering another member of the team. As a blog was something we had never attempted before this task, it was good to learn and an interesting task to complete together.
As said previously, I believe our strong team work helped massively with the justification. The strong teamwork allowed for us to complete all of the tasks well, along with having easy explanations for why we did each thing. When we had all completed our individual tasks, it became easier to present them to each other and this was what our justification consisted of.
In any future group tasks I would be more than happy with working with the same group. As mentioned above, this is not the first task we have completed together and the familiarity helps massively. The one thing I would consider improving about future group tasks would be to ensure we begin slightly earlier. This could potentially allow for better content as more time would be left for small improvements and minor changes. Although, I believe that this helped us improve all round as a group and it helped me improve myself as I learnt new things and another confidence boost.
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