1. In creative collaboration our group had some pretty good moments. We were very respectful of each other and listened attentively to what other members of the group were saying. This allowed us to have some pretty good ideas because we would have so many different ideas brought to the table and we could either use that direct idea or combine it with another. We did a good job of deep listening. This was a step in our journey to a shared vision. This was very key because since we each listened to each others ideas and stated our likes and dislikes the final resulting project that we had was approved by all of us. So since we all had agreed on the project and had a great enthusiasm about it mostly everything ran pretty smooth. the enthusiasm everyone brought to the table allowed us to think outside the box and come up with lots of great concepts to throw into the video. There wasn't much loathing of doing the work involved because we were all passionate about the presentation we were making. Maybe one thing i felt we could have worked on a little more was the equal participation aspect of creative collaboration. In this project I didn't feel there were many jobs to be done besides just taking the pictures, writing the essay, and putting it together in the video. So in some cases one person was assigned to a certain job but we all took part in looking over the material we came up with and making corrections as well as throwing in our ideas.
2. An area where I was trying to lead first came up on the first day when our group met. We were in the cafeteria looking around at the space we had to work with and trying to come up with ideas for our project. Every one kept talking over each other and putting out a bunch of ideas as well as shooting some down. So caused the tension to get really high in the group and people felt their ideas weren't getting heard. So I stepped in and told everyone to be quiet and told them that they could only speak when I pointed to them. That way everyone had to remain quiet while someone else was expressing their ideas. This worked out very well it brought some order to the whole process and people actually began listening to each others ideas. Another example of leadership appeared when Rachel took the liberty to start writing the essay. She went home on the second night and got the essay started by coming up with a strong thesis and intro paragraph as well as great points to touch on that would help flush out the rest of the paper. She then sent us what she had written through email so the whole group could look it over and provide feedback. This was a great move by Rachel because she stepped up and worked on a part of the project no one wanted to do but because of her efforts it turned out to be great.
3. I think some issues we had with Creative Collaboration were for one staying focused. Often in a project like this where we weren't given many guidelines and rules its hard to stay on task because often we feel lost. Also with commiments to self I believe one of my greatest challenges was ackowledging strengths and weakness'. But by the end of the project I was able to analyze what these were pretty well. Since I was the oldest person in the group and the only senior I had a certain power over the rest of the group which allowed us to get work done when I was able to tell people when they were supposed to talk. And one of my weakness' was not being very technological savy so I didn't work on the part involving imovie. With commitments to group it was very difficult to plan out what was the course for the day. if we had done a better job of this the project would've flowed better because we would have a strict plan for the day.
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