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 in class, we met
four times outside the classroom to work on the project. 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. 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 research that we broadcasted our final
product over the UW Bothell campus-based community radio, 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.