[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams
Cameron Bell
bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
Fri Nov 24 08:05:06 EST 2006
Likewise. I am wondering about setting up a Jabber server for such a
purpose. Simply to reduce external traffic costs and bandwidth and keep
it fully internal and "safer" for students. Has anyone done this yet?
Would be interested in feedback.
Cameron
Keith Richardson wrote:
> Skype has enabled some of the virtual teams I work in to be fast,
> efficient and effective, but it is real-time. One also needs
> a-synchronous tools too.
> Keith
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:30:47 +1100, "Mark Kelly"
> <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> said:
>
>> Yes, but is email a complete solution? It's certainly relevant and
>> important, but can it achieve everything a virtual team needs?
>>
>> I ask myself (as 3:30 comes and I have to drag myself to a curriculum
>> meeting) why I'm dragging myself to a meeting. Why couldn't it be done
>> by email? If you can work that out, you may start to see where email's
>> limitations begin.
>>
>> 2.2 cents' worth (GST inc)
>>
>> Off to curriculum. VELS again.
>>
>> Sigh........
>>
>>
>> jtabone at aitkencollege.edu.au wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> I am reading with interest everyone's comments on U302 -
>>> collaborative problem solving within virtual teams and am wondering
>>> if I may be over-simplifying this outcome task
>>>
>>> Going by the detailed example in the study design p. 69-70 we are
>>> given the scenario of university located on one
>>> "large campus", whereby management has recently formed as one of
>>> their key objectives to "strengthen current strategic collaborations
>>> and forge new alliances that will create new knowledge ..."
>>>
>>> The task is then:
>>>
>>> "design and create a prototype website for Sherwood University that
>>> will enable various virtual teams ... to realise their goals and to
>>> enhance decision making, knowledge sharing and collaborative problem
>>> solving"
>>>
>>> Couldn't simply having an email link solve this problem - yes you
>>> would use wikis, blogs, forums, webcasts, and every other "sexy"
>>> tool
>>> - however I can communicate virtually via email to people with the
>>> same interest (teams)
>>>
>>> Really, isn't that what I am doing right now - sending an email to a
>>> group of people with a common interest and goal and sharing
>>> information and receiving information in a collaborative environment
>>>
>>>
>>> Just my thoughts
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Joyce Tabone
>>> Aitken College
>>>
>>>
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