COLLABORATION WORK

In a group of three or more students, collaborate on a project to make a list of your group's most popular music CDs. Then, classify the CDs into musical genres such as pop, classical, and so on.

All communication about your project must be electronic (but not by voice or video phone). You can use e-mail, set up a Web site, use a chat room, use instant messaging, or use a collaboration e-room, if your school has that facility.

Print out a copy of all correspondence on the project and put the correspondence together in a folder in chronological order. Was this task very different from collaborating face to face with your partners? In which ways was it better? In which ways was it worse? What additional problems or advantages would you expect if people you were working with were in a different hemisphere?