Today we started off with with two team (practice) presentations on two websites (microsoft.co.uk and cnet.com). Thanks to everyone for getting up and doing that. You had very little time to prepare for that. I've put the links to these sites in "useful links" on the column to the right.
What you did today as a team presentation gives you a sense of what you need to do individually in your team meetings in a couple of weeks. Remember that each of you need to present a summary and evaluation of two websites which are useful sources of information for one of the tasks.
Next week we will consolidate the research - in your teams you will need to make sure that everyone has researched two sites and has completed the handout that I gave out today (and last week). The title of the handout is "Research and Reading - Document 2 and is available on the P drive. See file location in right-hand-column of this blog.
I've also put up the tasks on this site - just to keep us all right.
Finally, it appears that everyone has set up a Facebook site and one group are using the Skydrive as a way of communicating and sharing information.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Completing the planning ... starting to research
Today we completed the planning of the work that you need to do. I gave out a handout which gave some detail on the various stages and dates that these stages will be completed.
Each team completed a single planning sheet for the team - each member of each team will have an individual planning sheet which should synchronise with the team one (the individual and team planning sheet may look very similar - that's fine)
I asked you to then start research as a team on one website that you think may be useful for the purposes of your research. You started on that and, after some problems with the computers, completed that just before we left. We'll take it up from there next week when it will be over to you ... each team will talk us through a summary and evaluation of their chosen website.
Each team completed a single planning sheet for the team - each member of each team will have an individual planning sheet which should synchronise with the team one (the individual and team planning sheet may look very similar - that's fine)
I asked you to then start research as a team on one website that you think may be useful for the purposes of your research. You started on that and, after some problems with the computers, completed that just before we left. We'll take it up from there next week when it will be over to you ... each team will talk us through a summary and evaluation of their chosen website.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Starting the research project
Today we split up into the teams that you'll be in for the purpose of the unit.
Thare are three groups:
I gave out an agenda for everyone's first meeting:
1.Apologies for absence
2.Team name
3.Clarification of the purpose of the project
4.Team Members’ Contact Details
5.Acceptable group behaviour / group working
6.Who will do what? Team roles.
7.Strategy for successful completion of project
8.Any other competent business
9.Date of next meeting
It will probably not be neccessary to have a formal meeting with an agenda each week, however it is good experience to have more formal meetings with agendas every now and again. Part of the assessment for this unit requires you to organise, take part in and record the proceedings of a meeting.
The main thing that I wanted people to work out today was the objective of your team's project and to allocate tasks within the groups.
Now that we have a date for the submission of reports for Colin (second week in May) - we can work backwards from that to work out our timescale. We'll look at that next week.
Thare are three groups:
I gave out an agenda for everyone's first meeting:
1.Apologies for absence
2.Team name
3.Clarification of the purpose of the project
4.Team Members’ Contact Details
5.Acceptable group behaviour / group working
6.Who will do what? Team roles.
7.Strategy for successful completion of project
8.Any other competent business
9.Date of next meeting
It will probably not be neccessary to have a formal meeting with an agenda each week, however it is good experience to have more formal meetings with agendas every now and again. Part of the assessment for this unit requires you to organise, take part in and record the proceedings of a meeting.
The main thing that I wanted people to work out today was the objective of your team's project and to allocate tasks within the groups.
Now that we have a date for the submission of reports for Colin (second week in May) - we can work backwards from that to work out our timescale. We'll look at that next week.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Introduction to unit
First and foremost, apologies for the mix up with the rooms. I have a funny feeling that this isn't quite sorted yet. I am told that we should be in a room called Creative Arts 5 from next week (4th Feb) onwards.
In this first session we discussed the differences between groups and roles and, as a class, you all came up with the crucial aspect that makes the distinction between the two: a team is a group with a common objective.
At the moment you are still a group as your common objective has not yet come fully into focus - once it does, you will, hopefully, be a team.
We touched on the various roles the people play in teams and I asked you to identify, as much as you could, what role you most identified with in Belbin's list of team roles. It will be interesting to reflect on these as we progress. Click here to find out more about Belbin's roles.
We finished by breaking into groups (not teams yet!) and I gave you an idea of what we will be doing next.
I allowed you to form your own groups and was surprised that some had formed groups already. We'll take it up from there next time ...
In this first session we discussed the differences between groups and roles and, as a class, you all came up with the crucial aspect that makes the distinction between the two: a team is a group with a common objective.
At the moment you are still a group as your common objective has not yet come fully into focus - once it does, you will, hopefully, be a team.
We touched on the various roles the people play in teams and I asked you to identify, as much as you could, what role you most identified with in Belbin's list of team roles. It will be interesting to reflect on these as we progress. Click here to find out more about Belbin's roles.
We finished by breaking into groups (not teams yet!) and I gave you an idea of what we will be doing next.
I allowed you to form your own groups and was surprised that some had formed groups already. We'll take it up from there next time ...
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