No Experience Like This

Through the collaborative video project, I learned how to communicate and collaborate with those whose first language is not English. We worked with students from Japan that attend Kansai University. I enjoyed the experience. We decided to create a video on the different fashion trends in Hawaii and Japan. We looked at fashion trends of University students, night life, and kids. There is a major difference in fashion trends between Hawaii and Japan. Japan. Japan has 4 major seasons and dress accordingly to those seasons.In Hawaii we only have one major season and our fashion reflects that. i also learned that Japan doesn't really use Pinterest, but they have apps that offers fashion ideas.

The successes is that we were able to communicate enough to complete the video. On the Japan side, Tomo took charge of their side. He was very confident and the other's relied on him to communicate for them. To be honest I felt that the Japanese students spoke better English than they thought. I could understand each one of them. As time went on, everyone else began to get comfortable as well. They were very eager to make the video part of our project. We used Line to communicate with each other and used Google Hangouts to meet once a week. We used Google Docs to keep all of our ideas in one place. 

It was difficult to get everyone to meet on Google Hangouts. We would set a day and time, everyone would agree to it, but then people wouldn't show up because of other commitments, such as class. When we did meet, we would leave thinking everyone understood and were on the same page but as the week progressed that wasn't always the case. 

I would suggest getting the video done earlier. An idea might be to just work on it all at once on Google Hangouts. This will give us time to make changes and leave extra time in case something doesn't work or unforeseen circumstances occur. It would be ideal if all students participating could meet on Blackboard collaborate during a class time to go over project requirements as one class. 

I have only completed this assignment once. I have not had other opportunities like this. As mentioned before this was a great experience. I would do it all over again. The experience, I felt, was the most valuable.