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COLLABORATIONS!
Collaboration: to work jointly with others or together
especially in an intellectual endeavor (Merriam-Webster.com). The overall idea
of collaborating is a beautiful thing, in which it allows a singular person or
group to develop various thoughts into one. The use of collaboration can be
examined in multiple life situations, specifically when looking at it in the
workspace field. What exactly might Workspace Collaboration be? When looking on
thebalance.com, it is described as enabling workers to interface productively
with others on the job. Here are some examples of collaborating skills that were
listed as the following: brainstorming solutions to a problem, identifying
obstacles to success, listening to the concerns of other members as well
drawing up consensus around goals. All of these collaboration skill examples
are able to correlate with the ideas brought up in our ESOC 211 class. Although
in class, we focus on various types of collaboration, group work is an
essential when dealing with coming together to make one perfect idea.
Throughout the beginning of this course, I was a little
frightened as to what direction I was moving towards when dealing with my
career and major. But as the semester moves on, I am able to think about the
offline and online collaborations that I have dealt with in class and recognize
how surrounded I am in my everyday life by collaborations. Here are some
personal examples within class & outside of class that have taught me
lessons about both online and offline collaborations:
Our Professor has the class as a whole, create a blog post
every Thursday, typically about what was gone over in class that day. For our
first blog, I was a little taken back by the assignment and stared at a blank
page of numerous hours until I sat down re-read the text given and actually
wrote about something intriguing. The class text assigned that day was “What is
Collaboration Anyway?” by Adam Hyde. What caught my eye in this text was the
discussion about Wikipedia. (This topic is what I wrote my first blog on) It
basically began by saying, how Wikipedia obviously needed to start somewhere
with a blank page. Which, yes in any case is true. But that, that sentence is
what drew me in. The idea that, everything starts from scratch and how it takes
various people to start up something new. I never once thought about the
beginning of Wikipedia & I’m sure you didn’t until I just said something
too. This is where my personal experience really comes into play. Yes, not only
was I blogging about this type of collaboration, but I Wiki searched a topic I
knew a decent amount about and edited my own sentence into this specific page.
It was crazy! People from all over the world are able to just go online and
write a sentence of their input about any topic.
This is what makes collaboration the beautiful idea that it
is, the idea of diverse people coming together with different thoughts on the
same topic but creating one amazing idea as a whole. Within the text “What Is
Collaboration Anyway?”, they state “All edits are supposed to advance the
collaborative goal- to make the article more accurate and factual”. Yes, that my friends, is what collaboration
is all about.
Over the course of the semester so far, the concept of
“Communities of Practice” was brought up. When looking at the overall picture
of how Wikipedia is/was created, the main belief is people from everywhere
coming together as one, in order to form information from scratch. In one of my
blog’s, I was capable of correlating my high school experiences to collaborations,
as well as to communities of practice. In one of the class texts “Cultivating
Communities of Practice” by Etienne Wenger, it went over vast idea of how
collaboration works with groups of people who practice the same plan. This
allowed myself to relate the specific situation back to collaboration and
experiment in how they all tie together as an offline personal life experience.
Online and offline collaborations, has been touched upon
throughout our ESOC 211 class, which made it interesting to learn about this
topic. I was unaware how often the use of collaboration is seen throughout
technology as well as online. One day in class, Professor Daly assigned us to
group up and think about how the use of music can be used as a form of collaboration.
When thinking about it, the thought of EDM (Electric Dance Music) artists was
the first idea to appear in my head. As a group, we were able to connect the
film “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” to everyday music one hears in today’s
generation. Overlapping sounds of past music, as well as similar lyrics and
beats remixed to something new, but just given a new title, is very common
within this decade. For example, about 20 years ago, Santana created the song
“Maria Maria” but in June of 2017, not too many months ago, DJ Khaled developed
the song “Wild Thoughts” featuring Rihanna in which they used a guitar solo
during the chorus of their song with the same beats from Santana’s classic
“Maria Maria”. This went to show me that the use of online collaboration can go
as far as generations passed in order to create fantastic music today.
Various usage of collaboration has been developed throughout
our ESOC class. Zooming in on specific examples of collaboration comes
Tuckman’s 5 Stages of Group Development in which is a theory of 5 steps that
helps a team through struggles when needed. For example, it helps a team grow,
face challenges, tackle specific issues, work to find solutions, and get an end
result. Tuckman’s 5 Stages of Group Development are Forming, Storming, Norming,
Performing and Adjouring. As stated before, collaboration in workspace is very
ideal when dealing with situations, specifically focusing on my ESOC class. The
reasoning as to why I am informing one on the 5 stages is because this comes in
hand when dealing with the online and offline collaboration experiences I have
had in this course.
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