I found this interactivity to be particularly interesting due to the group process required by this activity. Prior to this assignment, I have worked collaboratively on numerous projects, however this was the first time that I worked solely through technology to coordinate an assignment and organize a final product and results. I felt that the group process this project required was authentically collaborative because each group member contributed to the collective whole and through working together. I feel that each member contributed to our finished product and that we were able to communicate well with one another through email as well as the google document. I found that it was challenging at times to coordinate how the information would be formatted within the google spreadsheet, however I feel that each member of our group was able to move around information and create new columns so that our spreadsheet was coherent and well organized. I feel that each member was able to contribute technologies to the activity and work together to further our final product. For instance, no two members contributed the similar information, but rather we were able to come up with innovative and unique technologies. Likewise, as members of the group added new technologies we each took turns reformatting the classifications so that everyone’s information fit well with our categories. Finally, any time a group member struggled with something, such as figuring out how to insert a hyperlink for a technology source, they were able to obtain help from other group members. Overall, I feel that we worked together well and through communicating consistently with one another as needed I feel that we authentically collaborated on this activity.
Ellen,
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you thoroughly analyzed the group process and that you were able to coherently explain how you, and your group members, were about to communicate and collaborate in order to complete the task at hand. I agree with the fact that using only Google Docs and email to communicate made the assignment much more challenging. I, however, did not have as big a problem with that because my group consisted of only three members but I do understand your difficulties as there were some times when my group members and I were not able to meet in person. Kudos on being able to find technologies which differed from your peers because I found it difficult to do as such. I fond that there are not many math technologies out there so I can only suppose that there are more technologies which benefit an English classroom than that of Math.