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Blue Team project

Following on from last weeks blog post, my team and I have finally made contact and decided to create a group chat on Facebook as its easier for everyone to communicate on that social media platform. We introduced ourselves and got to know one another. I learned that two of the girls were currently studying Interior Design in 3rd year and Katie was in 1st year of Creative and Cultural Industries. We roughly discussed the brief together and highlighted anything we weren't sure on.

I have included a little brief about the team project below.

"Consider how you might address the problems facing society while earning a living and living your lives. Do you accept the premise of the World Scientists? Can you see ways in which it is possible to work for a more sustainable engagement with our planet?"

In our groups we have been asked to present our findings in a engaging, fun and knowledgeable way in any format we wish as long as it can be saved and viewed in the future.

I chose to think of ideas myself that I could present to my team and gather their thoughts on some of the topics I came up with. I wrote my findings on Google Drive an online platform that allows you to create lists and invite others to add to or edit that list. I will invite them to this Drive once I've completed my research. Individual work can be beneficial to the team as long as one member is not doing all the work. Coming together as a team to discuss individual work are all apart of working together as a team as you can have input or resolve issues that may have arisen. I think it is important for my team to follow a plan to stay up to date to ensure our group prepares our research/ findings in preparation for the next class/ group project. I contributed to my group by creating a Google Drive list of rough work that may be useful the next time we collaborate.

My team and I have yet to discuss when suits everyone to meet up at a specific time as were all busy with other college work and deadlines.

I look forward to piecing together all our findings and settling on a topic we want to discuss for the group project.

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