I like team exercises. But i usually end up leading... But it's great to bounce ideas out of people and get input. On complex jobs it's nice to soften the load, and on simplier ones you can actually improve your work by being open to ideas, even if they just end up giving you inspiration to come up with your own new ideas.
In the end, at least for me, the best way to work as a team is to find someone's strong suit (there is always one) and send them that way. If 2 people are weak on the assignment, make them work together on just one thing, better if it's not a central part of your work. And everybody else just gets their assignment and run off to get it done.
This usually works pretty well and it's nice to make everyone be a part of something.
Also, it's pretty easy to end up on a group of people who have trouble speaking seriously in fron of a class or their teachers... that's why some of my best (and more complex) works get done in video
I'm actually working on one right now about Respiratory Safety. We usually do stuff that is funny and unusual. If the teacher hasn't forbidden this kind of approach and if the content is right and present, they can't give us a bad grade for trying to be creative and taking a novel approach.
That's how we ended up doing a Slipknot cover (Before i Forget) for which i'm making a videoclip full of Images and text about Respiratory Safety.
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