positive communication

Communication with one another on our project has allowed us to become more organized and a more productive group. By communicating with the Milwaukee river Clean-up organization and ourselves we have been able to se dates and times our group will meet for our project and also who is going to contribute what as far as getting a camcorder to bringing trash bags and gloves to make our project successful. Without good communication I believe our project would not be anywhere near as successful as it is now and we would running around in circles trying to figure out what we are doing as far as our project goes.

Erik Hosking

Communication

Today there are numerous mediums for communication. Technology has enabled society to reach out to each other at any given moment. Cell phones, e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging and online social networks are now a major part of our culture. In order to function you have to be knowledgable in at least a few if not all of these resources. As a group we've utilized most of these methods of communications to express our ideas and share other information. Whether it's meeting during out discussion section or hashing out details in an e-mail thread, we've been able to express our thoughts very easily. Having this type of access to various mediums has allowed each member to communicate in whichever way they feel comfortable. As a result, we've all been able exhibit our strongest communication skills and appreciate the strong points of others.

Good Comunication

As our official clean up day draws near, we are communicating with each other almost every day. It is important that we understand our jobs for that day, and where well be, what to bring, etc. Because we have great communication between members in our group, this is all going flawlessly. We have lined up a video camcorder, we have figured out what we need to bring and who will bring it, and we have decided when and where we are going to meet. I am sure that when the day of the clean up rolls around, we will be properly prepared.

Positive Communication

Communication is a major part of today's society. Communication is one of my strong skills. I have experience when working in groups/teams. It is important to keep in contact with every member, so that there is little to no confusion. In team EPIC I have emailed the team regarding times to meet, discussing issues, and information. Our communication has allowed us to stay on task and focused on our goals throughout this project. Email is not the only form of communication team EPIC has used. Phone calls, text messages, and personal face to face conversations. As a teammate I have kept a positive attitude when describing my idea during our filming process. I communicated my thoughts in a professional way to get our filming stage for the beach cleanup efficiently completed.

Josh Filo

Communication

Team EPIC has been very successful in communicating positively with each other throughout the course of our project. We have all shared and voiced our ideas, suggestions, and thoughts in order to make our project more creative and interesting. Not only have we communicated while directly working on the project, such as in our discussion section, but we have also kept a continuous communication among members outside of class. Early on we exchanged contact information, and we keep each other updated through e-mail or phone. Having constant continuous information within a group is very beneficial towards our end goal. We are able to openly discuss together what we want to do and how we are going to do it. It keeps the project flowing instead of putting a halt in it. I think Team EPIC has been very effective in demonstrating successful communication techniques within a group, and we will see that success reflected in our multimedia production.

Positive Motivation

Motivation has played a positive role in our group because each team member has shown significant initiative. We are all motivated by our common interest in preserving our environment and will demonstrate this when we each particiate in park/river clean-ups in the coming weeks. Our motivation has also shown itself throughout the milestones and discussion classes. We each have volunteered to take on necessary roles and tasks and have offered to contribute to the project in our own way. Our group is becoming more focused on details now as the clean-ups are approaching, and we are working together to decide what our actual production will entail. I think the motivation seen in Team EPIC has made the group very successful and will continue to do so as we finalize our project.

Motivation

EPIC’s number one focus is to clean up our environment to make our world a better place. One of the events we are attending is coming up at the end of the week. Because this event is so close the team’s motivation has been greater now more than ever. Our intensity and direction of the project is now clear and we are starting to be able to see how are multimedia film will be laid out. Team EPIC’s persistence of effort toward attaining our goal is a direct effect of our positive motivation that we have.

Josh Filo

Motivation

This far in our group are motivation has been high because we all want to make this project as productive as possible. This week we met and went over all the details and activities that we will have to complete in order to make our project successful. We set time schedules, dates and also discussed people we will want to interview for our project that gives us motivation to get our assigned tasks done. This way we won’t be scrambling at the last minute trying to finish our project and causing tension in the group because we are running out of time. The motivation tactics we have used in our group this far I believe has left everyone with a sense of assurance that we will be able to complete our project and make the Milwaukee River a safer and cleaner environment.

Erik Hosking