SPC 3425- Evaluation

Group R-

Myself-Denise Kania-Leader

Samuel Torres- Presenter

Martin Camacho- Clarifier

Danika Pachas- Initiator Contributor

Abigail Wheeler- Secretary

Cristian Carranza- Researcher

After a few days, I reached out to the group members, requesting that they form a What’s App group to communicate the group project together. A few members were missing for the first two weeks of forming the group, but they were added later because they either did not check their emails regularly or chose to wait until the last minute to check in when the assignment was due.

The group chose me as their ‘leader’ because I was the only one taking the initiative to form the group and arrange Zoom meetings weekly. Once the contract agreement was drafted, they chose their own roles.

I asked each member for availability for meetings so that we could narrow down a suitable virtual meeting day each week; we chose Monday evenings. As per the contract, group members needed to give a 24-hour notice of inability to attend the weekly meeting, but there were multiple occasions where some members did not give notice until the last few seconds of the meeting. Even after I sent reminders the night before and the day of the meeting. I did find myself taking on a lot of the workload for this group project because I felt like I needed to pick up the slack for the missing members that had to work ever-changing schedules. Work was distributed in a volunteer form, and the team members could choose what they wanted to work on, which they did in the end. However, planning, script development, and video editing came down to me as the others did not have the tools or resources to do those tasks.

A major setback that occurred was when Danika and Abigail decided to travel out of town the weekend that we were set to record and did not give notice to the group until a few days before, and we already had group members work schedules we were scheduled to work around, so I had to come up with a solution to get their recordings separately and edit their scripted parts that we already rehearsed with the others in the group. However, the video suffered from this due to Abigail recording a 4-minute-long synopsis at the beginning of our skit because she was not available for the recording day, and it was too late to change the whole script and ask the others to record again. While I think that with the lack of full attendance at the weekly meetings by others, and the inability to record the same day, with last-minute changes may have caused us to receive a less than favorable grade on this project, the group put together, rehearsed and performed to the best o their abilities. I am proud of every single one of them!