English 420Y - Business Writing Online

Our first introduction on the internet through email was interesting and pleasant. The participants gave background information, as well as, a daily schedule of their daily activities. Realizing that everyone is either working or is participating in an internship, we knew that this group project was going to be a difficult assignment. As of right now, two other members of my group participated very well to accomplish our first task of the Gantt Chart.

As for our first assigmente, I think it went well given the fact that we are working virtually and that its was kind of hard to divide up the work. As soon as I heard about my group I sent an e-mail to all my group members letting them know about the fact that I am 2 hours earlier than the rest (Colombia) and the fact that I was going to try my best to get things accomplished. All the other group members kind of did the same explaining what the situation was.

Here is the FINAL COPY OF GROUP 4 GANT CHART. 9:00 P.M INDIANA TIME.

The biggest challenge for this project is communicating ideas with my group. One of my group members is actually in London and that really confuses the time zone situation. However, I think overtime we are getting the idea of it. This week I contributed greatly to the overall productivity of our group. I sent our numerous e-mails communicating with my group about ideas on communication and how exactly to go about this project. My group is communicating via the WIKI page set up by Mr. Tirrell. It appears to be going very well.

All during week 5, I believe that my group did a good job communicating. We all got to know ourselves and I sent out emails regarding my contact information. Communicating through the emails was simple and easy and it worked efficiently for all of us. One of the main things that I focused on was to reply to the emails on time. Even though I am in another country as of now, I still tried my best to reply quickly to the emails and keep an update of what is happening. After knowing ourselves we decided to discuss, the parts that each one is going to be responsible of.

I usually find group work very tedious, and sometimes very hard to get everyone on the same page. This time around I found getting in contact with other group members very easy. I worked very late this week and did not receive my emails until late last night. After receiving them I immediately contacted the rest of the group and apologized for my absence. One of my group members had already created the ganatt chart, with the help of the other members.

Initiating contact and establishing roles is sometimes the hardest part of group word. However, our group did a good job of getting started working on this project. We all quickly responded to initial emails. We first introduced ourselves and commented about how we were excited to work together on the project. My first response to my group was one of excitement. I was glad to see that everyone was checking their email regularly and responded to my email. Even when Patrick went to Chicago, we still heard back from him. The first order of business for our group was to create our Gantt Chart.

Attached is our Gantt Chart

I first found out my team members through an email sent from the professor. I responded to all providing them with my cell phone, and screen name. I later reviewed some of their material on the website. I was excited because it seemed as though they had been keeping up with their work so far. Wednesday night I was contacted by Megan on AIM. We discussed our thoughts on the project and made plans to speak Thursday night.

This week I tried to start communicating with my group via the wiki page, but unfortunately none of my group members replied back. That same day I received an email from one of my teammembers who suggested that we meet through AIM in order to get together as a group. This method did not work well since many of us had internships or other courses, so we had trouble on setting a specific time to meet. Yesterday, I checked my email and saw that there was going to be a group meeting at 8pm Central Time through the chat page the course has designed for us.