[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

Wed Nov 29 08:29:14 EST 2006

Mark and colleagues

This last interpretation of the outcome (and task requirements) and
advice about teaching and learning and assessment are timely and
correct. 

Regards
Paula

Paula Christophersen
ICT Curriculum Manager
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority
41 St Andrews Place
EAST MELBOURNE 3002
Phone: 03 9651 4378
Fax: 03 9651 4324

-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 8:21 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

Key things to remember abuout ITA U3O2, as I understand it...

- Knowledge sharing is part of it, but the solution must also facilitate

team decision-making.  (So a static website with info on it - as in the 
Potts example - is not good.)

- Features that can't be realistically created for real can be 
simulated. e.g. Create a web forum lookalike screen in Photoshop; fake a

web-shopping checkout or online feedback form, or a networked calendar 
or booking sheet with graphics buttons and the like.  Since it's a 
prototype website, such parts do not need to actually work.  So the kids

don't need to actually set up a Miki or a Woogle, they just have to 
indicate that they know it would help the team share info / make 
collaborative decisions.

- So by all means introduce kids to relevant tools, but don't freak 
yourself out unnecessarily about having to use them in the outcome.

As I understand it...

Mark

Keith Richardson wrote:
> I am also very confused by this Geraldine - I am almost tempted to try
> to do it in two parts - one with website creation, and one using our
> Moodle in the school setting them the task to design then create
various
> cooperative, virtual team tools and be able to demonstrate that they
> actually work. I have not planned more deeply than that yet.
> What do others think?
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:23:11 +1100, "Geraldine McKenna"
> <gmckenna at ozemail.com.au> said:
>> I still feel quite unclear about what is expected in this outcome.
Would
>> a
>> link to the Google Docs site mentioned recently suffice or a link to
a
>> Moodle wiki for sharing knowledge or a blog? Given that we need to
use
>> web
>> authoring software - Dreamweaver in my case - I can only imagine
creating
>> links to other tools rather than actually creating the knowledge
sharing
>> capability within the website. Can anyone give more specific examples
of
>> how
>> they imagine this prototype website will look?
>> Geraldine McKenna
>> Avila College
>>
>> Thanks also for feedback re VET Multimedia. Seems it may not be a
more
>> attractive option for girls?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]On
>> Behalf Of Christophersen, Paula P
>> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 8:33 AM
>> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
>> Teachers'MailingList
>> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues
>>
>> It's great to hear this healthy discussion regarding Unit 3, Outcome
2.
>> I just want to stress that when students independently develop their
>> prototype website, it is OK just to simulate practices/tools rather
than
>> creating/using them. The main intention of this part of the outcome
is
>> for students to demonstrate their understanding of tools/facilities
>> available to support knowledge sharing and collaborative
>> decision-making.
>>
>> So, when completing this assessment task, students would design the
>> website, create the homepage and create/simulate that part of the
>> website that supports knowledge sharing and collaborative decision
>> making. Then, comes the theory part on networking.
>>
>> Regards
>> Paula
>>
>> Paula Christophersen
>> ICT Curriculum Manager
>> Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
>> Authority
>> 41 St Andrews Place
>> EAST MELBOURNE 3002
>> Phone: 03 9651 4378
>> Fax: 03 9651 4324
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>> On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
>> Sent: Friday, 24 November 2006 8:05 AM
>> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
>> Teachers'Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams
>>
>> 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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