Week Three Discussion

 

Recap and Topics of Interest

 

• Discussion: Project topics, issues
  • Reminder of next few weeks - ProjectAssignment
  • Quick status from each team & any issues to discuss?
  • Collaborative Learning elements?
    • Positive interdependence - Are you creating sub-teams that will work together, or primarily individual tasks with group processing at end?
    • Individual and group accountability - Relates to previous answer (are they held accountable together)?
    • Interaction - Opportunity for interaction
    • Team / Collaboration / Interpersonal skill development
    • Group Processing - Do you have this in your design?

 

• Discussion: Plus / Delta Items from Previous Week
  • Delta
    • "Adding a few more weeks to the class schedule would have been helpful for me - it'd be great to have a little less to do and more time to do it in - especially the class project creation week. It'd be great to gain one more week for completion of the class project."
    • "liked to have started the week with more background and knowledge on blogs and wikis ... so my focus could have been on richer information sharing"
    • "Team collaboration might have been better if we had assigned roles soon after Tuesday's meeting"
    • "I had trouble understanding the deliverable for the project related assignment."
    • "I find that I am still spending more time on this than I had planned"
    • "I have yet to really see a killer use for them in a corporate learning environment."
    • "I find that I am hesitant to write anything unless I have really thought it through."
  • Plus
    • "Our new collaboration tools were essential as our team had challenges with time schedules and difficulties coming together."
    • "signing up on Yahoo 360 and Yahoo My Web went well"
    • "sharing links with My Web is a lot easier than e-mailing them"
    • "Yahoo Bookmarks allows you to see your bookmarks from home or office"
    • "Yahoo groups worked well for exchanging information with team members"
    • "Signing up for Yahoo 360 and My Web were very quick and easy"

 

• Discussion: Social bookmarking
  • Discussion: How could you have used Social Bookmarking this last week or next week?

 

• Topics "missed" in Week 2 (SocialComputingAndLearning)
  • Social search
  • Main concepts in eLearning 2.0

 

Week Three Topics

 

AddinsMashups

WeekThreeAssignment

CollaborativeLearningFacilitation

ProblemBasedLearning (not covered in class)