It was great working with Scott today. We helped each other out a lot. I got a lot of ideas from him about how to boost the creativity of my and Cara's project. It was nice to hear him give real support and encouragement for our good ideas and provide suggestions for areas that could be improved.
He was kind of stuck with knowing where to go. But as we talked about different ideas and worked together, he came up with the awesome idea of doing a message board format for his paper.
It's amazing how collaboration works. The ideas we bounced off of each other randomly inspired the other person to say something, which inspired another idea, which inspired another idea, until finally a good and acceptable idea was found. It would be interesting to record these peer review sessions to try and discover how the process of learning and making decisions takes place. It's a constant state of feedback and evaluation. It was a lot of fun. It was completely beneficial for both of our papers. I'm glad we had as much time as we did. I don't think I would've got as much done otherwise.
The project Cara and I are doing is coming along really well. We met on Saturday and shared some various ideas. She worked on it a lot on Sunday and came up with a new direction for it. She sent me an email about it, but I didn't get it until 5 am on Monday. Fortunately, I understood what she was saying, wrote my part, and both of our parts fit together very well. We just have a few revisions to do, and it will be great.
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