(I only know one of my team mates identities right now, therefore I can only include JImigarcia-Brian in this post) I do feel as though this assignment will work out well, Matthew has posted in the discussion, trying to get out of everyone when we can meet. I feel as though we will all work together to achieve our goal, we all will work hard leading us to do well with the assignment. Also I feel as though this will be a good experience for us all to work together interpersonally with strangers, we all care about our grades, otherwise we would not be taking a class in the summer!..
This is my summary for Brian’s post:
I really enjoyed reading JimiGarcia’s post regarding this project along with their opinions on the readings and which one’s will benefit us with our work. I think his approach is very similar to mine. He mentions how it is important to share emotion with strangers, but not to cross the line. He mentions that “it’s important to share personal experiences to express what you’ve been through, but that it’s not necessary to share the most of personal emotions.-JimmiGarcia” I feel the exact same way, when we are working together we will have to share our personal experiences to help our evidence and make points for our argument. It is unnecessary to get too emotional and share very personal experiences. We do not want to offend our team mates and we do not need to share our life-story. Brian has a very logical approach to this project, I am happy to be paired up with him, I completely agree with the readings that he feels will benefit us. I agree that the article on how to putting emotions into words will not benefit us, because we do not need to share very deep emotions that we may struggle putting into words, when speaking with strangers.
<a href=“http://https://learning.umassonline.net/webct/urw/lc26190.tp0/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct”>JimiGarcia</a>
August 7, 2008 at 4:25 am
You’ll have to forgive me for noticing an irony – that you mention how everyone on your team cares about grades, and then diminish the relevance of emotion in this project.
No doubt there is a balance between disclosing more than is productive and not enough, and of disclosing different types of information. I do need to question the separation between ‘experience’ and ‘emotion,’ though – isn’t that just a bit too easy? I mean, whenever you tell an experience some flavor of emotion will come through, yes? And when you tell an emotion, it is always in relation to some experience, is it not? Maybe I am making this too blurry, but I am just not convinced that there is a single handy continuum from experience at one end to emotion on the other.
Still, you’ve made good use of positive language to set the Team Project in motion!