At one point in the conference call today, I thought we agreed that each team would post their top five ideas in their own team blog, and students from other teams would come in and use the comments fields to give feedback on those ideas after we distribute links to all of the blogs.
That does seem to make a lot of sense.
We could then assign each of our students to go to the other six blogs and leave their signature, as it were. They could do it on their own time frame without negotiating a specific "meetup" time, and it would show who is (or isn't) participating.
In the last couple minutes of the conversation, the feedback vehicle ended up back in the Google Group, which I think we all agree is a klunky way to have a conversation. The best use of Google Group seems to be as a bulletin board/message board/list serve, not for dialogue.
What say you all about doing the blog/feedback idea?
(Please forgive, but I for the life of me couldn't explain to Darcy just now why we tilted back to Google Groups instead of blogs ... my brain aches ;-)
2 comments:
My recollection was that we would leave the mixed groups feedback process as is (on Google Groups) as some feedback has already been rendered by students there, and going to the blogs sites now would be confusing for the students. Of course, they (lettered groups) could choose to communicate in more progressive ways than Google Groups, but we left that up to them, right?!
After the teams narrow to one idea, I think a description should be posted on the team blogs for all to view and comment on.
All of this said, I am more than willing to adjust and have the five ideas posted to the team blogs. (Mushy brain, setting in!)
If it hasn't become clear yet, I am all for blogs as a means of collaboration and distribution of info.
I am fully on-board with the idea of moving the commenting to the blogs and using google groups for mass emails only.
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