So many questions out there waiting to be answered, but the most important: “What kind of platform do we want?” It was a difficult choice due to the fact that we, as a group, do not have a common voice already, the purpose became bigger than we thought in the beginning and some of us will have to deal with a completely new tool of work.
We started by saying that the platform should be designed from the beginning in such a way to be able to interact with the outside world later on without remaining a closed experience in the end. So, a core system was created that would generate later on an editorial content in order to spread our ideas. The core system contains practical information (updated calendar, course content, assignments), discussions and learning monitoring and a multi-user blogging tool with a simple and direct interface. We thought it would be useful to write always the summary of the previous lesson of this course for those who missed the class and need guidance. It was quite fun to organize our minds using contemporaneous Google Docs and to feel ourselves how we can contribute to a shared body of knowledge.
We wanted hierarchy for our first steps because the situation could easily become overwhelming and in this way we know exactly “who” has to do “what” “ when”.
The second step of our project, an editorialized reach out tool will gain for its precedent experience and once we will find “our” meaning we will be able to give its best shape. A name was given, quite nice taking in consideration the fact that the class was at its end – “Social Business Talks”.
We agreed in spending time blogging, so the tool could have a smooth start. Keep you posted.
And here it is the previous presentation of our professor Alberto Cottica, the starting point of our collaboration platform:
Setting up a collaborative environment
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Well done, Simona. I would suggest starting to categorize posts: yours, for example, is clearly an entry of the course log proper, where newcomers and outsiders can keep track of what is going on in the course. In Blogger, this is done by tags. Are you tagging posts?
ReplyDeleteSimona, another thing. Could you embed my original Slideshare presentation in this post?
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know if I was pretty explicit in the text with "some of us will have to deal with a completely new tool of work", but I guess I was talking about me:))..I will tag my future posts, thanks
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