Delta

Group Members: Dathan Boden, Ashley Bridges, Glenda Carmack, Marcy Dotson, Mandy Mathews

Results of Saturdays Synchronous Chat:


 * Dathan: Googlewave and Google Docs
 * Mandy: Moodle, Google Wonderland and Google Timeline
 * Ashley: Community Walk and Classtool.net
 * Glenda: Animoto and Voicethreads

Be thinking about questions for our student lead discussion and post on our group discussion board. Please sign up for a googlewave account. If you have problems please contact Dathan or Glenda.

Results of Thursdays Synchronous Chat

We are going to try and have a chat on Saturday Feb 13 at 10:30 am in our group page Virtual Classroom.

On Thursday Feb 11 at 9:00 Mandy, Ashley and Glenda met and chatted. The following positions were determined:

Mandy voluntered to be the Facilitator: This person keeps the conversation flowing and make sure the group is on track.

Glenda volunteed to be Recorder: Blackboard allows Rachel to save chats, but the recorder could serve as a person to take their own notes on group member duties and responsibilities. This person is the one who is delegated to submit a small 1 page write up to Rachel explaining the group plan. This paper is described in the rubric. Please have this turned in no later than 3 days after your chat.

Ashley volunteered to be the Energizer or encourager – This person strives to keep the group energized and enthusiastic or encouraged about the topic.

That means that Marcy and Dathan need to determine who will volunteer for the following positions:

Dathan will go ahead and volunteer for Gatekeeper... this is actually kind of funny since I wasn't even at the first chat so how could I ensure everyone else was there... I will definitely be present for the chat Saturday at 10:30 and will do my best to contact everyone else to remind them. Again sorry I wasn't there, I just spaced it due to the new baby. Gatekeeper – This person ensures that everyone participates in the group chat.

Observer – This person is responsible for reflecting on the entire experience of the group. This person also fills in if one of the other members is absent.

Please also go to the group discussion board and reply to the posts about contact information and the Chat on Saturday.

During our chat, we did determine exactly what we are going to do since we were missing 2 people. We also talked about using GoogleWave, and Ashley did not have an invite, so since Glenda has 8 invites, she invited Ashley. Both Dathan and Glenda have accounts, if everyone could get an account, this could be an excellent demonstration of Web 2.0 collaboration. We may use Google Docs for our project, but nothing was definite. There was a chat about each of us researching 2 Web 2.0 technologies, but we did not make a decision, so be thinking about what we want to do for our DB week and our group project. Sorry, Ashley. :( I thought I invited everyone. I still have some invites left, if you all need any or if someone loses theirs. *r* Sites visited: http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com http://wiffiti.com http://voicethread.com

Thanks everyone, Glenda (Thursday Feb 11 @ 10:30 pm)

Glenda - So I believe the assignment wants us to work out our schedule on this wiki. So I embedded a google calendar for us to try, I could only find emails for Ashley and Mandy to invite them to the calendar, but I can add Marcy and Dathan if they send me their ucmo email address. I have never done this or used this, but it might be interesting to try especially since our project will be Web 2.0 and beyond and this is a web 2.0 feature. It may or may not work, but it is at least worth a shot. :)

Group - In order to work on our calendar together it works better if we are contacts in google. The easiest way to do this is we can post Gmail accounts here (if you don't have one get one they are easy and free). Then we can add each other. After you do that you have to share your google calendar with everyone. Since most of us are new to this your calendar probably will be empty so don't worry about us knowing your every move.

Dathan, thanks for posting the video and I was already sharing the calendar with everyone but you because I did not have your email. I have now shared the group calendar with you, I also gave everyone the ability to manage and change. Dathan I just got a message that you are editing as I am writing this, do you want to chat in Blackboard?

So I have added everyone to the Delta Group Calendar I created and I have also shared my calendar with the group, so everyone should get an email inviting them to both calendars and hopefully this experiment will work. Dathan, are you familiar with "cloud computing"? I just joined Google Wave the other day but have not had time to experiment, but will try this weekend. I would also like to volunteer to compile our group project. Since I am on staff at the University, I have an Adobe Presenter/Connect account and can use it for our project. This will allow us to embed video and add audio. We post a link and the presentation is then streamed from the Server, which is a better server that hosts Blackboard. ~Glenda~ 2/4/2010 at 12:54.

I added my schedule to the calendar. I've never used google calendar before, so if I screwed up and you can't see it, please let me know. Thanks! ---Mandy It does not appear that the calendar thing is not working too well yet, but after reading the discussion board for our group, there is a consensus that evenings are best, Monday-Wednesday evenings are out, and since we have to do this before the 14th, how about Thursday the 11th at 9 pm. This would allow us to get meals over with and kids settled and still not be too late? I am also going to post this on the group discussion board. If this does not work, offer an alternate date and time and if it does work, please confirm.~Glenda~

Glenda- Thursday at 9 works perfectly for me! Thanks! --Mandy

I have a google account with this address, so will this email work? || documents all in one. I really think it || media type="googlecalendar" key="loaoiih4gj6ofhonfkkukbmfqo%40group.calendar.google.com" ARG0="&ctz=America/Chicago" height="600" width="800"
 * Name fdasfdsffdasf ||> Google Email Address (Gmail) || Another Web 2.0 tool we should look into ||
 * Dathan Boden ||> dathan.boden@gmail.com || is Google Wave. Professor Thompson sent ||
 * Ashely Bridges ||>  || everyone an invite to join. It should be a ||
 * Glenda Carmack ||>  || great Web 2.0 tool because it combines ||
 * Marcy Dotson ||>  || chat, email, instant messaging, wiki, and ||
 * Mandy Mathews ||> mandy_elizabeth_mathews@yahoo.com
 * ~  ||~ media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY" height="344" width="425" || would be great if we did our chat using wave rather than just the chat feature in blackboard. Ms. Thompson and I discussed this the other day on Google Wave and she thought it was a great idea. ||