Describe your experiences in working remotely in groups for
this course. What worked, what didn’t, what challenges did you face, what
solutions did you come up with? When you consider developing group activities
in Distance Learning (DL) environments, what issues/concerns do you anticipate
with respect to assessment of group work?
My experience in working remotely in group 2 for this course
is a little bit difficult when it comes to hangout due to the time differences.
However, we overcome this problem by writing to each other on google chat or
our closed group on yammer. So, yammer, google chat, google docs work
perferctly but the hangout is the only thing that did not work perferctly at
all times. The cooperation for the voicethread was great. We overcame the
problems all the time by being in touch with each other by e-mails to catch
what we missed. Accordingly, this is the main concern I anticipate with respect
with respect to assessment of the group work because this may affect the work
of the group. For example, I found out that group 8 are three teachers.
However, I only heard two of them on the voicethread activity and the third
teacher’s recording had a very low quality. It is the responsibility of the
other teachers to draw her attention to that problem.
I believe that most of the groups have the same challenge, the time manner for the hangout. we have the same problem but we over come this problem by hangout 2 out of 3 of group member. we discuss and put outlines and replay lectures together, try to clarify any misconception between both of us understanding then we email our third partner by the result and the time of our upcoming meeting.
ReplyDeletethe second time, we hang out the three of us. finalize our discussion and finish the voice thread.
Emails are good and easy way of connections but communication by using hangout or skype is like loud thinking and will be more helpful.