Journal #15 Overcoming the Challenges

To overcome the challenges of working with people from other schools, or areas is difficult because you do not have face to face access to them, but it also works out better. Since there is distance, it makes each person complete their own role. Since they are in your group, but far away, you cannot rely on them to complete sections of a project that do not belong to them. Each person has to complete their own role. To overcome the challenges, you have to find the easiest ways to communicate. I would like to communicate by phone, because that is my preferred method of contact. Texting is my main way of talking to people because I always have my phone and I respond very quickly. I also talk on the phone, but I only talk for a certain amount of time because I do not like talking to people on the phone that much. My second method of contact would be email. I get my gmail sent directly to my phone and I can reply right from my phone, so I always have access. Besides that, I usually check my email every night so I can clear out my inbox. I think to overcome the challenges, you have to find a balance between groups. You have to find times where you both can talk to each other when you are not busy and you have to make time to work on the project. I think that working with people from other schools is an easy task if you take the time and really figure out what the other person's needs are. When you work with people from other schools, it is difficult because sometimes talking face to face makes more sense and you can actually discuss your perspective, so in that sense you loose a little bit of understanding, but I think