We went over the importance of good collaboration practices when it comes to working with others on shared projects as opposed to solo assessments. Good communication of course was a key aspect of successful group work and important when it comes to everyone being clear on what their responsibilities are within the task to avoid confusion and group members not pulling their weight. Another useful thing learnt in week 9 was, if you’re going to have a bitch about someone… make sure you turn any microphones you may have on your person off before you do it. I guess these sorts of  personal skills and teamwork experiences such as filming and recording material around campus in groups like we did in a couple of the workshops will be useful in real workplaces, whether it involves creating media or any other task. Collaborative contracts were also explained to us as an agreement of all members of a given group to work towards the set goal effectively. Signing these collaborative contracts in theory minimizes cases of people doing absolutely nothing or not communicating with the group at all as it goes against an agreement on a document which they’ve signed.