Technology in the classroom Part 9

I have to start thinking of another title for these messsages, because "Technology in the Classroom Part X" is beginning to sound like a series of increasingly bad horror movies.
Anyway, Phase 2 of my project included two groups of students who were taking an intensive summer course- from mid-June to mid-July. One group studied from 10 to 2, and consisted of 10 students. The other group studied from 3 to 7, and consisted of 21 students. They worked with the same two teachers as the previous phase. Both groups were given a list of 600 "words for the TOEIC" that come from a book of that same name (Barron's). The 600 words were divided among the number of teams in the group and they were told that they were responsible for learning those words, for making sure their teammates learned them, and for making them available to the other teams, so the other teams could learn them, too.
Responsibility to oneself and to one's team is an essential element of a learning community, and therefore, it's of interest for my research.
I'll tell you about Group 3 first; the students formed into four teams. The teams chose video, blogs, powerpoint and e-mail as their medium to store and share their vocabulary words. The video team unfortunately chose a technology that they couldn't manage in the classroom, and they never found time to work outside the class, so they ended up not presenting anything. The blog team divided the work. One of the members was responsible for the blog, the others for getting definitions for their words and making sure they were posted. Team 3 looked up the vocabulary words, put never got around to putting them on the powerpoint. Team 4 didn't do anything.
The morning Group, however, did do some interesting work, and I will tell you about that tomorrow.