Reflection 1

Date of meeting: Saturday, May 30th
Location of meeting: I was sitting at Caribou Coffee inside Maplewood Mall
Time of meeting – note both beginning and ending times: 1:18pm - 2:40pm
Names of members present: Kevin Jack & Amy Sanders
Names of members absent: Nathaniel Anderson & Benjamin Neibaur
Names of any guests attending: None

Since this was our first meeting, Amy & I talked about each other. As a get to know each other type of meeting. We discussed what our name for the group is (Against the Flow). Since neither of us had a good idea, we had to consult the Internet for this.

It was determined that no one had the same agenda, instead using the group for their own personal reasons. It was the group's main conflict. Thurman would have made a good leader since he has the need for control. Marmalde would have made the most trouble since he was brought into the group for the wrong reasons, and not to mention didn't have any interest in the group (he was brought into to the church just to do odd jobs).

Then we discussed who was going to do the summaries for the week. And made the decision to add more to the discussion boards.

As I mentioned at the beginning, we took it easy on this meeting. Prior to chatting on the chat board, it was our first times using the chat feature of D2L. I've took many classes online in the past but my first time chatting live. I'm used to chatting on the discussion boards. Amy was inexperienced in this type of environment. It made it easier on both of us knowing how inexperienced we are when it comes to certain features of D2L. This was easy for both of us. It helped us to get to know each other a little bit and the communication was very easy. It will be interesting to see how this works in the future with our new group members joining our group. In addition, it was determined that we would more than likely be using the chat room instead of the webcam feature.