This group project was the first group project I have ever been involved with in an academic course. It took a little getting used to the dynamics of a group project at the start as it was quite a large group with seven members and on one knew each other. I was used to working in teams in my previous job but there was always a boss to make decisions so that the projects moved swiftly along. In a group with seven equals no one could call the shots so at the start there were many long discussions about small things with everyone afraid to make a decision. However, as we progressed this sorted itself out as time pressure meant that procrastination was reduced and decisiveness won through.
In all we worked well as a team and we decided at the second meeting that we would base our reference collection on the History and Development of Irish Traditional Music. We set up a blog on Blogger.com and we all contributed to this by posting up reviews of parts of important books, interviews with librarians in targeted music libraries/archives and notes on other topics. We met weekly and made good progress. However, midway through the semester pressures from other modules reduced the amount of time that we spent on the project and it was neglected for a few weeks until a final spurt of action by everyone in the last two and a half weeks go us over the line.
Overall, I was very happy with the way we worked as a team and every member contributed equally to the project. Each member completed his or her allotted tasks diligently and I think the final Wiki exhibits the fruits of these efforts to full effect.
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