[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA U302 - Virtual Teams using One Note

[Peter Wicks]

The VCE Study design for ITA  Unit 3 Outcome 2 requires students to 
consider the operation of a Virtual Team.

The typical approach to this task has been theoretical, which provides 
limited learning opportunities.

The use of One Note, part of MS-Office 2007, enables students to 
participate in a virtual environment, adding/modifying/updating and 
annotating each others text and images as if they shared a screen,
in real time.

Students work in groups, but sit apart to simulate geographical 
dispersion (I have threatened to run my classes from home ;-).
Communication is via their shared Virtual Workspace, and can be 
supplemented by email, messaging, (you could allow simulated snail mail 
(passing notes ;-) or mobile phones (!) to set up and augment their 
virtual sessions.

Once the session is established "What you do, We all see"

Lesson One is establishing protocols for communication.

It is real time, not orderly or sequential, there is no automatic
flow control,  students must develop rules for communication.

"Who wrote that? added that image/annotation..?" "Who deleted that?"

I used it for U302 this year and the students loved it.

It was also a fun way to end their assessment task (something
I have wanted to achieve for some time now  ;-)

And finally, if you want to avoid face to face staff meetings...

I have uploaded a copy of the simple instructions to set up
a One Note shared session to the VITTA website.  As it includes
annotated screen shots it has blown out to >2Meg and I wasn't
comfortable attaching that to the list;


vitta>resources>vce ita unit 3 outcome 2 virtual teams using one note
Resource ID: 3241


...peter wicks...
ICT co-ordinator
Kilbreda College
wicksp at kilbreda.vic.edu.au