[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

[Keith Richardson]

Joyce (my thoughts for what they are worth) - email needs to be the
basic fundamental communication-link tool, but my suggestion is to
imagine yourself as part of such a team with an ongoing team task that
demands close cooperation through changing circumstances, disagreements,
misunderstandings, etc - then see the different tricks that you can pull
out of the hat to facilitate effective AND efficient team work. From
that, then, think about what forms of communication you would ideally
want to have happen, then search for tools that will actually enable
these.
So my suggestion is to work from the "real happenings and needs being
experienced by the teams" back to the ITC tools you might make good use
of.
Keith



On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:15:57 +1100, jtabone at aitkencollege.edu.au said:
> 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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