Well, this was an interesting week. First, we were assigned 4 members in our group... One member we never heard from and he did not respond to posts in our group forum direct emails on msu.edu mail or invites and mail via gmail. So we gave up on him and decided that he must have dropped the class.
Anyhow. Emily, Katie and myself started collaborating using a google doc that I created. I find this a very useful tool for collaboration as you get a chronological discussion archive without having to juggle between multiple posts in the forum where you can lose pieces of the discussion.
Our collaboration thread was very productive and we tried to setup our video conference for midweek, on thursday. We were going to use Adobe Connect using the msumeeting room... but we were unable to get it to work right. so we abandoned it, and via our shared document, repointed to Google Hangouts.... after all this, Katie had to go, so Emily and I chatted about the assignment and pounded out some of the rough details...subject: google drive / google docs... and we rescheduled for Saturday. I sent out an Event Invite for a Google Hangout and everyone responded...
On Saturday we were able to get all three of us on the Google Hangout, though I could not get my mic to work for some reason... but Katie did a screen record of our session and I did alot of typing. We pounded out the framework of our presentation... made assignments for sections of the work and what we would cover.. We came up with an Objectives statement that was later refined by Emily... The final presentation will be produced in Camtasia Studio and edited by Craig.
Craig, I loved how well your group worked together to take on this assignment! You did a nice job of phasing into it. Watching your video was so fun because although you experienced technical difficulties, you utilized the tools of Google Hangout to work around the issues. It was awesome to see you take advantage of the tool! One time in a Hangout, my mic was automatically muted. The only way I took notice to how to fix it was that partially through my chat, a little mic appeared on the corner of my video. Do you have any screenshots from your session to share?
ReplyDeleteI was away at a conference and could not get my ipad to connect... so I borrowed a friends netbook... was able to connect but could not get his audio hardware to hook up... I tried everything even rebooting and going back in, which is shy I went a way for a bit... I was so busy typing in the chat area to keep up with the girls, that I totally forgot to take a screen shot... I could go grab a frame from the video if you want.. but I thought that posting the link to the video was enough...
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