The final week of ISM we we're faced with the challenge of completing an online Social Media project. Although the project is meant to teach people the all important lesson of working with a group it did little for my education. The group was designed to help us understand social media of a company in more detail .
Our group picked American Express. The nice thing about group projects is that the work load is divided into smaller, more managable parts.
Our group, for the most part, work well together. One or two people were able to be the directors of the group and guide the rest of us that were not sure what to do. About an hour ago one member of our group logged on said he was unable to be in contact with the group and then copy and pasted my work and two other peoples work under that post. I don't know if that was by accident or not but it seemed a little odd...
I believe I remember this being the first semester of a group project of this kind.
I have taken MANY classes online and each one has had some type of group work on it. This baffels me. A big reason why people take online classes is because they have weird schedules or like the benefit of not having a meeting and do the class at their pass. Group projects, however, totally ignore those facts and force people to conform to certian times and leave the people with the regular schedules waiting on the people with the weird schedules.
Also, I got NOTHING from this project. I feel that this would have been more benefical as a singular project. My group told me to look on two different websites and give them feed back. I was never able to see the finished product and I do not understand the point of this lesson.
This class has been amazing.. up until this point. I'm still a fan of the class but I would say the group project thing needs some work.
***** I DO HAVE THE URL!!!!!
http://ism3004socialmedia.wikispaces.com/American+Express
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