Teams are busy preparing their power points, handouts, and still working on their websites.  Last week M-F I spent at least 10 hours communicating with teams outside of class, and this weekend (Sat-Sun) I spent another 5 hours "tending" the locations where people are conducting their teamwork: Google Docs (3 teams) Email and Bb (2 teams). 

Learning this week:

• Team management communication.  Generally the teams that are using Google Docs are experiencing richer communication amongst each other and the instructional team.  This is because the activity is all seen "at a glance" and a person who posted a question/reply can email the team a notification in two clicks.  Not every team member is equally communicative, but it involves more people, even people who were not interacting as often via email "show up" on google docs
  
  
• EC support needed for Team management sites -- I could not give this during lecture and so I posted a message on our Google Docs.
  
  
• Reflections -- Some more reflection drafts are appearing on team websites.  People are still learning how to reflect deeply rather than just generalize and list everything.  It is not easy to consider experience as data that backs up an argument. And they are forgetting that I gave them a handout on reflection on March 31, so I have been referring people to it.
  
  
• Editing using track changes -- I see that some people are doing this, and some have not started.  The logistics needed some more clarification since not everyone was in class when I demonstrated how to do it and provided a handout.  One person was confused about the # of words to be edited and what to do if editing reduced a team member's content below the 2000 w minimum, so that needed to be elaborated. 
  
  
• Technology issues.  I was able to help teams with the following issues that came up
  
  
• Power point 2007 not transfering well to other computers or ppt 2003. How to translate a ppt to a pdf using Google Docs
  
• Subpage listings -- how to modify their headings and word wrap. 
  
• Pathway pages -- how to advertise subpage content and links to it when the team does not want subpages to appear in a navigation bar
  
• Breadcrumbs -- how to make them show up above titles so people can link back to higher levels of the site.
  
• Navigation -- one team had almost all their pages attached to the top of the site.  I helped give them tips on moving them into a hierarchical relationship using the Site Map feature and "move page"