Blended Learning forum, Oct 2012 Facilitating team collaboration using vUWS Groups function

1. Blended Learning forum, Oct 2012 Facilitating team collaboration using vUWSGroups function Nick Scott School of Business

2. Example of operating group:

3. Note tracking device

4. Why is vUWS Groups useful in my unit? One of my objectives: “[gaining] workplace skills related to small team management and collaborative task achievement within a deadline”. Student s do one semester-long Project with five sequential sections (‘chapters’). Each chapter has 2 – 3 weeks for completion. The Project is published on vUWS as a public document. They change teams for each chapter so that they work with everyone else in the class. Each team has 5 researchers/writers each answering a specific question, and 1 Editor responsible for team coordination, research assistance and submission quality.

5. Why use Groups workspace on vUWS? To keep the teams working within vUWSas a central focus of this unit’s organisation. The Wiki: rather than emailing each other various versions, a current version can be seen and edited. Idea from Google Docs: Demo The collaboration tools: (1) standard tools provided for efficient use in each chapter, (2) tools that enable integrated collaboration.

6. 2 3 How to set up? 1

7. Name group

8. Select collaboration tools Select student group members Transfer to group membership Submit to establish group

9. Thanks!