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Lab 2: First team meeting

Contents

  1. 1 Lab goals
  2. 2 Get started
  3. 3 Know yourselves & your team members
  4. 4 Team values, policies, procedures
  5. 5 Develop a to-do list, delegate
    1. 5.1 Draft a plan for the next 2 weeks
    2. 5.2 Discuss preliminary research needs 
    3. 5.3 How will you use Redish Ch 2 as a team? 
  6. 6 End of class reflection

Lab goals

  1. Get to know your team
  2. Discuss how your team will operate
  3. Ask questions of each other, Carmen, and Dr. Smith while you are present with each other in lab. 
  4. Finish as much as you can on this page within the 50 minutes of lab time.
  5. Reflect in reply to the COMS 463 blog post linked to the bottom of this page.  This reinforces your learning process.

Get started

  • Basic Introductions
  • Designate a note-taker (not the EC) who will submit the drafted minutes to the editorial coordinator within 1 day

Know yourselves & your team members

This will help your EC start to compile Appendix A: Team members' profiles
  • Your learning goals, passions, anxieties for this project
  • Relevant background and resources for this project
  • Your context -- how many courses are you taking? job? other commitments?

Team values, policies, procedures

This will help your EC start to compile Appendix B: Team contract
  • Past good experiences, bad experiences in teams, what do you think makes a team strong or weak?
  • Boundaries, standards and expectations, appropriate problem solving technique & appropriate sanctions
  • Your team communication habits and skills, common technologies (i.e. text, phone, facebook) 
  • How will you collaborate / engage actively with the instructional team & learning coach ?  Remember, your team will need to communicate officially between classes in a way that Dr. Smith and Carmen can access (i.e.  Use Bb group pages for now.  Subscribe to your group's discussion board. Eventually make use of your Team Management Google Site as needed to support the team.)

Develop a to-do list, delegate

This will help your EC guide your team toward a successful Proposal and to prepare Appendix C: Project Schedule

Draft a plan for the next 2 weeks

What knowledge and materials (drafts, documents) will you need bring to your team for this Wednesday & next Monday? 

What will you need to present your team's initial ideas to Zoe & Erin next week Wednesday?

Discuss preliminary research needs 

What do ALL need to know, and what discoveries can or should be delegated/divided? 

  • How the course & project are structured
  • Our partners’ needs (Erin, Zoe) and audiences’ needs
  • Our various discourse communities (how they use language, how they communicate values)
  • Finding project-related online communication examples that can help your team make decisions about design, structure, audience interaction
  • Anything else you need to know?

How will you use Redish Ch 2 as a team? 

Your team & the class as a whole is responsible for using this to guide the whole project's adaptation to audiences, from start to finish of this term.  How might you prepare questions for Zoe and Erin for their proposal-related class visit?  What questions can Dr. Smith and Carmen help you answer?  How will you play an active & collaborative role?


End of class reflection

Leave at least the last 7 minutes of Lab time to log in to a computer and complete this task individually.

The poll and reflection question is located at http://coms463.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/lab-2-reflections/