[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

Fri Nov 24 10:34:47 EST 2006

Thanks Paula - my problem is, however, that I want to keep the kids
involved and real as far as possible, to convince them from actual
experience about what is truely possible, not just because I said so,
but because they have experienced it for themselves.
Keith

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:15:24 +1100, "Mark Scott"
<msc at staff.luther.vic.edu.au> said:
> What's this, some sanity back into the conversation?
> 
> Just when I was getting thoroughly depressed.
> 
> Mark Scott
> 
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> On Behalf Of Christophersen, Paula P
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams
> 
> Dear colleagues
> 
> It's great to hear this healthy discussion regarding Unit 3, Outcome 2.
> I just want to stress that when students independently develop their
> prototype website, it is OK just to simulate practices/tools rather than
> creating/using them. The main intention of this part of the outcome is
> for students to demonstrate their understanding of tools/facilities
> available to support knowledge sharing and collaborative
> decision-making. 
> 
> So, when completing this assessment task, students would design the
> website, create the homepage and create/simulate that part of the
> website that supports knowledge sharing and collaborative decision
> making. Then, comes the theory part on networking.
> 
> Regards
> Paula
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
> Sent: Friday, 24 November 2006 8:05 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams
> 
> Likewise. I am wondering about setting up a Jabber server for such a
> purpose. Simply to reduce external traffic costs and bandwidth and keep
> it fully internal and "safer" for students. Has anyone done this yet?
> Would be interested in feedback.
> Cameron
> 
> Keith Richardson wrote:
> > Skype has enabled some of the virtual teams I work in to be fast,
> > efficient and effective, but it is real-time. One also needs
> > a-synchronous tools too.
> > Keith
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:30:47 +1100, "Mark Kelly"
> > <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> said:
> >   
> >> Yes, but is email a complete solution?  It's certainly relevant and 
> >> important, but can it achieve everything a virtual team needs?
> >>
> >> I ask myself (as 3:30 comes and I have to drag myself to a curriculum
> 
> >> meeting) why I'm dragging myself to a meeting.  Why couldn't it be
> done 
> >> by email?  If you can work that out, you may start to see where
> email's 
> >> limitations begin.
> >>
> >> 2.2 cents' worth (GST inc)
> >>
> >> Off to curriculum.  VELS again.
> >>
> >> Sigh........
> >>
> >>
> >> jtabone at aitkencollege.edu.au wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Dear All
> >>>
> >>> I am reading with interest everyone's comments on U302 -
> >>> collaborative problem solving within virtual teams and am wondering
> >>> if I may be over-simplifying this outcome task 
> >>>
> >>> Going by the detailed example in the study design p. 69-70 we are
> >>> given the scenario of university located on one
> >>> "large campus", whereby management has recently formed as one of
> >>> their key objectives to "strengthen current strategic collaborations
> >>> and forge new alliances that will create new knowledge ..."
> >>>
> >>> The task is then: 
> >>>
> >>> "design and create a prototype website for Sherwood University that
> >>> will enable various virtual teams ... to realise their goals and to
> >>> enhance decision making, knowledge sharing and collaborative problem
> >>> solving"
> >>>
> >>> Couldn't simply having an email link solve this problem - yes you
> >>> would use wikis, blogs, forums, webcasts, and every other "sexy"
> >>> tool
> >>> - however I can communicate virtually via email to people with the
> >>> same interest (teams)
> >>>
> >>> Really, isn't that what I am doing right now - sending an email to a
> >>> group of people with a common interest and goal and sharing
> >>> information and receiving information in a collaborative environment
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Just my thoughts
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Joyce Tabone
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