Well, it has been another busy week on the virtual team project. As mentioned in my previous blog, the week began with a meeting on Skype. This went successfully once everything was arranged and it proved a successful way of conducting a team meeting. Here we again made a commitment to producing our draft reports for the coming Wednesday, and we discussed what we had been reading and let each other know how our reports were coming along.
It was also a useful opportunity to get to know each other a little better. John shared with us his experiences of Dublin which were positive. I was able to mention where I had been in America and how much I had enjoyed it. The meeting overall was fun and interactive. As mentioned in my previous blog, I successfully recorded it as a podcast and so did John. We posted both our versions on Sulis. So for my own analysis of podcasts it proved how versatile they allowed the team to be in the type of ways they chose to conduct their team meetings. We know now that we can meet in a variety of ways, and now that the audio will always be recorded and posted to Sulis, thereby documenting our meeting in accordance with the requirements of the project.
The team had another meeting on Wednesday where we discussed the main report. We allocated roles that we would all play. Two editor roles were created, and all of the report’s sections were divided up amongst the team members. For my own part, I was allocated the role of dealing with the references and appendices. As a result, I am trying to get together all the email exchanges the team has made so that these can go in the appendices. It will naturally become busier as the report nears completion and I have to make sure that all of the references are correct.
I submitted my draft report just after midnight on Thursday night – or Friday morning really. It was a good idea we decided to get our first drafts done early. Having read the others who posted I can see already how I can improve my own. It is comforting to know that there is still plenty of time for improvement. Hopefully this bodes well for the report as a whole.
At this stage I am looking forward to another full and busy week for the virtual team project. We have the regular meetings scheduled, and our overall goal is beginning to come into focus. For my own part I hope to make more podcasts and try and find more ways to use them in collaboration. In my next blog I hope to share the variety of ways that podcasts can be used, and reflect on how they can be of most use in virtual team collaboration.
But until then I hope to stay busy and keep exploring podcasting.
It was also a useful opportunity to get to know each other a little better. John shared with us his experiences of Dublin which were positive. I was able to mention where I had been in America and how much I had enjoyed it. The meeting overall was fun and interactive. As mentioned in my previous blog, I successfully recorded it as a podcast and so did John. We posted both our versions on Sulis. So for my own analysis of podcasts it proved how versatile they allowed the team to be in the type of ways they chose to conduct their team meetings. We know now that we can meet in a variety of ways, and now that the audio will always be recorded and posted to Sulis, thereby documenting our meeting in accordance with the requirements of the project.
The team had another meeting on Wednesday where we discussed the main report. We allocated roles that we would all play. Two editor roles were created, and all of the report’s sections were divided up amongst the team members. For my own part, I was allocated the role of dealing with the references and appendices. As a result, I am trying to get together all the email exchanges the team has made so that these can go in the appendices. It will naturally become busier as the report nears completion and I have to make sure that all of the references are correct.
I submitted my draft report just after midnight on Thursday night – or Friday morning really. It was a good idea we decided to get our first drafts done early. Having read the others who posted I can see already how I can improve my own. It is comforting to know that there is still plenty of time for improvement. Hopefully this bodes well for the report as a whole.
At this stage I am looking forward to another full and busy week for the virtual team project. We have the regular meetings scheduled, and our overall goal is beginning to come into focus. For my own part I hope to make more podcasts and try and find more ways to use them in collaboration. In my next blog I hope to share the variety of ways that podcasts can be used, and reflect on how they can be of most use in virtual team collaboration.
But until then I hope to stay busy and keep exploring podcasting.
Brian.
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