Peer Review Essay

It was great to be back after a restful and much needed break. I thoroughly enjoyed the peer review task, and was looking forward to the team debate. At first I did not know how the debate would work, or what it comprised off, mostly due to it being an online debate. I read the instructions posted by the lecturer, and I was surprised to learn that it needed to be presented as a report with a presentation. I was quite familiar with this, since I did the exact same task for a module in my degree, which was also a group task. I was a bit nervous about this being a group task, because of the weighting of the marks towards the portfolio. I felt that due to previous experiences with peers not participating in the tasks, this group task may affect our workload and scores. I was, however eager to meet my team

There seemed to be a variety of people from different countries in our group, which was aspiring. I visited the wiki to view the many topics given by the lecturer, which was interesting. There were a few topics that caught my eye, but we could only choose one. The other issue was coming to a decision as a group on which topic would be most preferable to all members in the group, which was a bit troublesome. We managed to come to an agreement and chose DDT. I was pleased with the choice of topic and impressed by the way in which my group came to a decision. I felt comfortable and confident in my group, which was refreshing. The group members introduced themselves and so did I. I was fascinated to learn about the different group members, especially the variety within the, which was pleasant. We chose a group leader to spearhead our debate task, and I was all in favour of our choice, as I felt he (Mahlatji) would perform an excellent job. We had done the basics, and the next task was to collect information and debate our points. I started collecting data right away and was excited to proceed onto the next