Collaboration and Shared Leadership

During my time studying, I often had chances to participate in group discussions or

projects. These chances helped me strengthen my teamwork skills, including
leadership, communication, listening, respectfulness, etc. The two artifacts that I
chose to represent my work in the area of collaboration and shared leadership are
from the final projects in BIS 235 – Critical Media Literacy and BIS 333 – Media and
Communication Studies.

The project in BIS 235 is called the Media Artifacts Critique. I worked together with
my two classmates for this project. Besides the time we were given to work together
in class, we met four times outside the classroom to work on the project together.
We decided to split the work into three parts to research in our own time, then we
bring our findings to the group and collaborated for the final paper as a group.
Although we did not clearly specify the roles for each person, we navigated through
the project being responsible for our parts, keeping each other informed, and
supported each other when one needed help.

The other project from BIS 333 was a group research that we broadcasted our final
product over the UW Bothell campus-based community radio called UWave. Our
focal question of the research was “How does social media influence the perception of
its users through representation, policy and organization, and communication and
power?” This project was composed by six students, including myself. Unlike the
previous artifact, this project was collaborated through text messages and an online
platform. We agreed on a time to work on the project together on Google Doc and
finished the script online.

To conclude, the experience composing the two artifacts was similar, yet different.
Both projects show how I excel in collaboration and shared leadership, despite the
preferred means of communication.