LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 8) ~ Planning the virtual team project~

LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 8) ~ Planning the project~ Module 4 Making contact with your virtual team Getting started with the project Key connected learning elements About e-moderation Keeping connected ? Questions, concerns?

Making contact with your virtual team The sooner you hold the first team meeting, the more time you have to work on the project , so … Add your contact details on your team page on G+ community asap E-moderators to arrange a team meeting by end of Week 8 Use whatever means of communications suits you best to organise your team and communicate If you use G+ community for your team - please set up separate one outside the main CL G+ community If you want to use Collaborate for your team meetings - ask Hilary to set up a Team Room - 'open all hours‘ - with full moderation rights for all team members.

About e-moderation Thanks to first e-moderators for getting your teams off to a good start Set an e-mod roster for the rest of the project - rotate the e-mod role weekly - everyone gains e-mod leadership experience - and shares the load E-mod monitors progress, organises weekly meetings, maybe does some trouble-shooting – and delegates - doesn’t have to do all the work! Please be kind to your e-mods each week 

5 step model of e-moderation … promoting human interaction and communication, through the modelling, conveying and building of knowledge and skills …through using the mediation of online environments designed for interaction and collaboration. (Gilly Salmon, 2011, p. 5) 5 step model of e-moderation … The virtual teams are intended to be self-managing. Everyone plays a vital part in team organisation and project management. This means that it’s up to you as a team to decide the topic how you will run the project. The role of e-moderator – or team leader - will rotate each week to ensure that everyone gains experience in this role and also shares the load. Hilary and Mandy will act as team advisers. We will only intervene if team members ask us to. Broadly speaking, the e-moderator’s role is to motivate and coordinate rather than direct or censor. Gilly Salmon (2011, p. 5) describes e-moderating as an active verb, like learning and teaching. And she describes the role of e-moderator as “promoting human interaction and communication, through the modelling, conveying and building of knowledge and skills …Through using the mediation of online environments designed for interaction and collaboration”. Her five stage model of teaching and learning online offers a useful approach for understanding and undertaking the e-moderation process (2011, p. 32). You will find this model in Module 2 And detailed step by step guide to e-moderation in the Virtual team project guide.

Five step model of e-moderation (Gilly Salmon) http://www.gillysalmon.com/five-stage-model.html Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. Salmon, G. (2012). Chapter 2. A model for collaborative online learning. In E-moderating: The key to teaching and learning online (3rd. ed.) (pp.60-102). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. [Available via CMD or as e-book via QUT Library catalogue].

Keeping connected Live the connectvity through this project! Please keep in contact with your team members - early on, plan who will do what and when - negotiate time off / making up for time away - let them know if you get sick or have other issues Update team adviser(Hilary) with BRIEF weekly report (dot points) Try to self-manage the team – but contact the team adviser if a problem is getting too hard to resolve

Keeping it manageable The project is the whole focus for learning and assessment from now until end Week 13 Plan to put in 8-10 hours average per week to the team project - but no more! For Assignment 2 you need to complete a ‘project journal’ - log of your hours and input to the team project. - see Assignment 2 template on BB Assessment page - here’s what it looks like …

Project journal Outline your contributions for each week About 200 words (total) - equired written style = Note form. Semester Week Approx hours worked on project Add number Participation in team meetings   Highlight/comment as appropriate Turn as e-moderator Highlight as appropriate Week 8 Participated: Yes / No Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/Email/Other Comment (optional): E-mod: Yes / No Week 9 Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/Email Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/Other

Getting started with the project Take it gently  First team meeting - Take time to get to know team members Share interests, availability etc – before getting into detailed planning Identify who will be available when - negotiate your input around any time away Start brainstorming possible topics Aim for consensus on topic by end Week 9 – you may need to vote See Module 4 Read the Virtual Teams Project guide Check assignment 2 requirements – keep a close eye on them throughout the project

Key connected learning elements Peer supported Interest powered Academically oriented How will you integrate these elements? Examples? Team names?

~ Week 8~ Questions??