Collaboration
	The Food Court project is the most collaborative project I have worked on this year. Most of the projects we work on in Political Studies are group projects, but this one in particular involved a lot of collaboration. We worked in a group of four and each of the group members had to take on different jobs throughout the course of the project. I constructed most of the power point presentation, but one of my group members did the last slide which contained twelve hyperlinks because he was more familiar with the technology. Our group was required to complete several journal entries as we worked our way through the project. The journal entries were basically just to document our progress and write down our ideas. We would read the journal prompt together and brainstorm as a group. Then one group member would type the ideas of all the other members. As a group I think we worked well together. We had to decide which five resturants would be the best choices to operate in our fictional school's new food court. We debated within our group, but eventually we were able to comprimise and reach a desicion that everyone could be confident about. I think that working on group projects so often has improved my ability to collaborate with others tremendously since I came to New Technology High School.
			The Project
		In this project about Welfare Reform I excercised the collaboration skills that I developed during the Food Court project. I was in a group of four people and we split up the resaerch so that each person had their own topic to explore. Then we combined all of our information into one power point presentation. We worked well together as a group and split up the work evenly so that one person wasn't burdened with most of the work .
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