[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

[Mark Kelly]

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
> Aitken College
> 
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