Our team seems to be a good fit. Nicole stepped in right away
and volunteered to be the primary contact for our team; together she and Laura
attended the Skype meeting with Dr. Newberry and collaborated and set up a
group Skype meeting. The team had a very good meeting. We were assigned the
task of coming up with questions to ask Dr. Newberry at their next Skype
meeting. We collaborated at that meeting, and agreed to get our final
suggestions to Nicole by Friday.
I am really pleased with our first team meeting, our ongoing Google
docs collaboration and our initial list of questions. I do not normally like
working with groups and was actually worried when the mention of team project
came up. But, following our first meeting, I am very excited to be working with
a great team of people.
We have not assigned roles to each member. We decided that we
would wait until the next meeting with Dr. Newberry and learn more about our
course and the project.
The 11 steps listed in Chapter 1 of the text has given us a
great place to start and a reference point to keep us on topic and make sure we
hit key points throughout this project. However, we cannot get started on those
crucial steps until we receive the answers to our questions on the next
instructor-learner Skype.
We need to gather crucial information before we can continue,
including such things as: course, teacher preferences and tech experience and
skills, students experience and skills, content information…
I am actually excited to see it unfold!
I agree that our team appears to collaborate well together. I like the format of this project because it has given a bunch of space for creativity.
ReplyDeleteI like that working together in this way is helping you to feel better about the group and team process. Kristi H
ReplyDeleteTeam projects can be tough. Online team projects can be painful and tough! I'm glad this one is moving forward. I think you have uncovered the purpose behind this first task in this group project. First, to form as a group, and second to realize you don't know enough about the project yet... and to devise a way to learn enough to do it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are excited about the project. I felt a little awkward getting it off the ground last week, but it seems like we are forming good working relationships this week. We are really becoming a team.
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