I was assigned to the group that
was supposed to find information on all the parties that the other groups
researched and our group was supposed to find information on other parties in Germany.
As a group we got together on Wednesday after class and we decided that Kari
would set up a document on Google so that when we found information we could
post it to the document, that way we wouldn’t have to worry about meeting
anywhere because of such uncoordinated schedules between all the group members.
After we gathered all the information about particular parties we decided as a
group to put it all on a PowerPoint to present to the class.
For the project I helped with all
the parties we found and I just brushed up the information to try and find
interesting facts that the other members of our group never found; if any. I
found most of the flags and symbols for the parties and made sure that everybody’s
information was cited. Most of my work was done on the NPD (Nazi Party), there
was a lot of information on the Nazi party that I found mainly because I feel
it had to do with Hitler and it was happening around his era.
The party that seemed most
interesting to me was the Pirate party. The pirate party seemed like a party
that kind of gave you free will for anything you wanted to do within the boundaries
set by the party. The Pirate party wasn’t a real strict party at all; I learned
some things about it when I was listening to the presentations that totally
caught me off guard. When I first read “Pirates” I thought that it meant a
group of people that dress up like actual pirates with peg legs and eye patches
and ship, later I found out it was a group that was more like the pirating that
you would do on the internet.
I like doing group work even though
it was very hard for our group to actually meet in person, I loved Kari’s idea
of making a Google document. The Google document was a lot easier to add
information that it was to try and set up a time to meet and worrying about
conflictions. If I was to do another group project; which I’m sure we will do, I
would do it through a Google document again. I think that are grouped worked
together well to get the task done. The link to the PowerPoint is posted on the top of this page, you can access it if you click on Political parties.
