Domingas Fernandes
Evaluation #3
On Wednesday night March 30th, I opened my Blackboard page and noticed that I had a notification from my Virtual Group. My group members had already started the discussion about what Electronic Meeting System we would be using for the assignment. GoogleDoc, being the most widely used, was suggested and everyone seemed to agree with it. We also shared our phone numbers and decided to use iMessage. On the following day, it seemed that everybody forgot that we should be working on the assignment. No one joined me online and we didn’t work until night, which made very upset since I only woke up early to work on the virtual group. I started the GoogleDoc and suggested to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio on Global Warming and Climate Change. Everyone one also seemed to agree, but after that it seemed like no one else knew what to do, or even worse, it appeared that no one was actually willing to do anything. I tried starting the discussion but with no success. Then, I created an outline to …show more content…
For example, after I created the GoogleDoc, I wanted to initiate the discussion, but no one answered. As we studied in class, both the cues-filtered-out and media richness theory suggest that EMS cannot provide the nonverbal cues which made it difficult to establish a sense of group trust or feel that we could count on each other to accomplish the task ahead. In a face-to-face group we can all be working at the same time and place which makes it possible to give and receive feedbacks instantly. Consequently, since none would answer or join me, I simply decided to work by myself. In a face-to-face, situation it could be different since I would easily call people’s attention and ask them to start working. Therefore, the biggest challenge was the lack of feedback and finding time to work together on the
Evaluation #3
On Wednesday night March 30th, I opened my Blackboard page and noticed that I had a notification from my Virtual Group. My group members had already started the discussion about what Electronic Meeting System we would be using for the assignment. GoogleDoc, being the most widely used, was suggested and everyone seemed to agree with it. We also shared our phone numbers and decided to use iMessage. On the following day, it seemed that everybody forgot that we should be working on the assignment. No one joined me online and we didn’t work until night, which made very upset since I only woke up early to work on the virtual group. I started the GoogleDoc and suggested to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio on Global Warming and Climate Change. Everyone one also seemed to agree, but after that it seemed like no one else knew what to do, or even worse, it appeared that no one was actually willing to do anything. I tried starting the discussion but with no success. Then, I created an outline to …show more content…
For example, after I created the GoogleDoc, I wanted to initiate the discussion, but no one answered. As we studied in class, both the cues-filtered-out and media richness theory suggest that EMS cannot provide the nonverbal cues which made it difficult to establish a sense of group trust or feel that we could count on each other to accomplish the task ahead. In a face-to-face group we can all be working at the same time and place which makes it possible to give and receive feedbacks instantly. Consequently, since none would answer or join me, I simply decided to work by myself. In a face-to-face, situation it could be different since I would easily call people’s attention and ask them to start working. Therefore, the biggest challenge was the lack of feedback and finding time to work together on the