1. You will work in a team of 4-6 members to make a short, 15 minute video on the topic of ____________. The Video must include people outside of your own team or this group (e.g. in the hotel, the city, etc.).
2. Your team has a hand-held camera with a battery pack which will run for about 30 minutes in total. You will have one and a half hours to plan and make the video. At the end of the afternoon, we will view the video(s) and then talk together about the experience of working in a team.
3. The purpose of the teamwork is to apply the team principles which we have talked about by working on the video, so pay attention to the dynamics of being a team.
4. You should spend about 30 minutes planning the video and about 1 hour doing making.

You will need one video camera and an extra battery pack for each team.

You will need a projecter or TV and Video playback machine.

1. Please spend 30 minutes discussing what the scenes will be, who will do what -- how you will do the video.
2. I will remind you of the time.
3. You now have one hour to complete the video.
4. Show the first team's video. When done, applaud. Show the second team's video, applaud
5. Thank you all very much for this opportunity. It is amazing what a team can achieve in such a short time. Let's now turn to the experience we had working in the teams.
6. Conversation:

   a. What were some of the activities of your group?
   b. What is somethi ng someone said?
   c. What is something you saw?
   d. Someone describe the main steps you went through in your team to produce the video.
   e. When was the work easy?
   f. When was the work difficult?
   g. When did you personally feel challenged? Describe what was happening.
   h. When did members of your team help each other the most? How?
   i. What was the least helpful thing that happened in the group?
   j. What did you learn about working in a team? (You want to get a fairly long list here. Take notes as you will read them back.)
   k. As you listen to this list (read it back) what advise would you give to someone setting up a team in your work situation?

Effective teams can be extremely powerful both in what they can achieve and in the opportunity they give us for personal growth. I believe that it is work our while to concentrate on the special requirements of team-based methods of working together. I appreciate the chance we have had to reflect on what this means for each of us personally.

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