Overcoming The Challenge of Long Distance

It is going to be very difficult to finish the Franklin's Virtues project with people who are not in the same area as us because it is going to be very difficult to communicate with these people. For example, it is already a challenge for me to talk to my partners just to see what part of the project each person wants to do. I have 6 people in my group. Out of the six people who are in my group, one of them gave an email address that is not valid, and out of the five others, only one emailed me back. The emails that I have received have also not been very helpful. The project is due tomorrow and none of my group members seem too concerned that we have not even started on the video. I do not want to end up doing this whole project by myself, because that is not the point of the project and also because that would be a lot of work for me to do all by myself and that is unfair to me. If my group members do not step up, I really do not know what I am going to do. So, so far the biggest challenge of this project and having partners who are a long distance away from here is being able to communicate with my partners not only their assignments and what each person needs to do in order to complete this project, but also being able to communicate to my partners that this project is important and that we need to get started on it. I am going to email my partners tonight and hope that they all realize that we really need to get to working on this project. I knew from the beginning when this project was first assigned that working with long distance partners was going to be a new and interesting challenge, but I had no idea of how frustrating and annoying it would actually end up being. I don't blame my partners that they really are not doing anything because I know that they do not have computers in their everyday classroom so that makes it a bit more difficult for them to do, but on the other hand, I know that most people have access to the internet either at home on a computer or even on their cell phones and I do not think that it is that big of a deal to just email me back and give me some ideas instead of making me come up with the whole project by myself.