The distance collaboration assignment was definitely a new and a fun experience. It did not turn out to be much difficult since it was just two of us working in the group. We took in turns to give description of our physical environment. I took my notes in short points which I then shaped into sentence structure eventually forming them into a single paragraph.
We encountered a few problem while editing the Google document. It worked fine till we were taking notes from each others descriptions but the problem started when we started uploading the pictures in the Google doc as it became really slow. I eventually lost access to the document when i refreshed the page, as it would not load and thus was not able to even edit the text on the document. After repeated tries I eventually ended with me sending my finalized text to my group partner who put it in my text in the document for me.
Other than that the rest went fine. It was rather easy giving the description of my environment and making an idea about the environment that my group partner was in. I definitely consider that sharing of pictures is an excellent way to clear the wage ideas one forms in his mind after hearing the description that you get from the other person. As initially when my group partner told me about the painting on her wall I heard her incorrectly and formed a completely different picture in my mind to what it actually was. I thought it was a picture of magnets in the water (considering that it was abstract art i thought it could be possible) while it was actually was a painting of two octopi in the water. In the end it could be safe to say that the distance collaboration can be effectively done using the current available tools and technologies as long as the group size is remains small (with increase in the number of people it would make it difficult).
Link to the assignment
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