Group Work

My group had another conference call last night to work on our final presentation. Working together definitely presents its challenges so I’m lucky that everyone in my group is courteous. We were all pretty easy on agreeing on our roles. Matt, the only male in our group, jokingly agreed to be the defendant in the sexual abuse case. He said he was OK with that since he ends up being innocent at the end.

A few of our members have some experience with law classes so that is a big help. One of them came up with a couple of sample cases that we might be able to model so on our call last night, we agreed on a case.

We did have some differences of opinion on the format of our final presentation. We weren’t sure if it would be better to present it as a summary or as a dialog, such as a script to a play.

Araceli walked us through the process of a court case so we were able to create assignments based on those pieces. Because some of the pieces tie together, we agreed to coordinate to come up with a draft. For example, the defendant and the defense lawyer’s presentations rely on each other. As the judge, there’s really not much to develop. I chose this role since I agreed to put the PowerPoint together and will be responsible for tying all the individual pieces together.

The other thing that took us a bit to agree on was how to present. Once we found out that it’s not a requirement to present on iLinc, we weren’t sure if we should use it at all. We discussed the pros and cons of doing a live iLinc presentation versus just submitting a PowerPoint. After our discussion, we finally decided on submitting a PowerPoint as our presentation and using the iLinc session for our group to review the first draft.

We also had some discussion on the timeline, how soon we should get the first draft done, when we need to review, when the final draft should be complete, etc. All in all, the conference call was a productive one.