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=ETEC 520=

Assignment 2 Group Project

 * //UBC MET, Summer 2010//**

Team Colours June 24 > > June 21
 * // **Peggy - Saskatchewan Green** //
 * Mary -Burlington- Estern Time
 * Brian - Ohio, Eastern time, Rouge
 * Ifeoma - Toronto-Eastern Time, Blue
 * I've been adding some stuff on different pages. What do you all think? -Brian
 * Here's a quick read: []
 * A few new pages - Educational Design, for key points about our vision/requirements for e-Learning; Funding & Costs; and Evaluation & Monitoring - as Brian hs mentioned a key part of our recommendations should be to know if we are on track & how to measure our success.

June 20
 * I've added a new page - Recommendations. After reading the assignment again, I believe this section will be the main part of the paper. I agree with Brian that we should be sure to focus on topics raised in Unit 3 of our class, and I've tried to do that. Perhaps on the References page indicate which readings contain especially relevant information to include. My apologies for moving along so quickly without a lot of consultation without you all; trying to get as much done before our summer starts here.
 * Hey gang, just checkin' in here. I can meet pretty much whenever after 1:30 p.m. EST. on weekdays and my weekends are pretty much free now. I have Skype, MSN, and I think we also have our Chat available on our course website The program that Peggy and I have used to meet works great.

June18 - Brian, **//Peggy//** Mary June 18 Hello all I dont have Skype, but i will me able to meet weekends if necessary and nights. Msn will work fine for me; however, i am open to suggestions. I think we should stick to the wiki, so we dont have to write in the places; it seems to work for now. Excellent idea Peggy, the questions will give us some direction and we can post our thoughts to come to a final point.
 * Peggy, I agree. Let's post general ideas here and then draft on Google Docs in different colours/dates to show our work.
 * I'm sure we'll need to meet at least a couple times online to get this all together. Does everyone have Skype?
 * I'm ready to start whenever.
 * //**Meeting times & methods**// - What works best for others - weekend and/or evening meetings? I can do either. I think you other 3 are in the same time zone, and I'm 2 hours behind - so 4 pm here is 6 pm there. Sunday? Before then? I can do Skype, or if we are interested I have more toys you can try out, at @http://breeze.cornerstonesd.ca/etec520/ (log in as a guest - you can check it out anytime). It will allow us to open up documents to all view together; sometimes handy. I've recently helped people interview for teaching positions in our division this way, and we use it for our online learning. You can also find me on MSN live (peglaws - also my Skype name). Or Friend me on Facebook
 * **//Starting points//**? How about starting by deciding on some key points of the Context, especially the following as I think answers to these will be needed to give us direction. Would it help to post your thoughts to these on the Context page?
 * the rationale - why do we want to become a School Without Boundaries?
 * Who are our students? What is their profile?

June 17 - from Brian
 * Everyone: Apologies and thanks for your patience! I'm normally pretty prompt about doing things. I was playing catch up since school let out this past Wednesday. I added some more thoughts on the Google Doc, but I'm willing to work on here. I don't have a preference, however it'd be nice to only use one program only.
 * Peggy: I viewed your Assignment 1. You really have a gift with words. It read like a publication in an academic magazine!
 * Mary and Ifeoma: I tried to read your Assignment 1s today, but wasn't able to find them. Can you send them to me via e-mail (bbarkhu@yahoo.com) or tell me how to locate the file?
 * I think that's it for now... it looks like we'll be using this wiki, so I'll check it daily, if not more often. Cheers!

June 17 - Peggy June 17 - Where to Begin?
 * Hey Brian! Good to see your post. I agree - let's post content in 1 place, not 2. I've mentioned my preference my preference is to post general notes/thoughts/draft ideas on the wiki where it's easier to separate major topics into separate pages, and use the Google Doc for writing drafts. But - if you guys want to try the wiki for a few more days, then post your preference late this week or weekend - I'm 100% fine with whatever works best for the group.
 * I can also very easily set up a web video conference if we ever want to do that - at some point before the course ends I'd love to virtually meet you all!
 * Mary & Peggy have already had some discussion about the context of our scenario. Shall we try to nail some of that information down? See The Context page. There are some other pages with some notes on them. I like the idea of either dating our comments, or when adding to the middle of existing pages perhaps use a different colour that draws your attention, or add a dated note at the top of the page (as we are doing here) to indicate where you've added new ideas.
 * Feel free to add new pages - you should see that option if you've created a wikispaces account for yourself

June 16 - Peggy June 15 -- > > > This wiki is just a thought to use for our collaboration. Time is short, so if this doesn't work for us (too hard to learn to use, too clunky, not worth the time to post content here, whatever) we can try another option. I find email threads sometimes don't work as well for a project like this. I think a Google Doc will also be useful, once the writing stage moves further along. It won't hurt my feelings at all if anyone decides this wiki isn't going to suite our needs.
 * Mary has discovered that indeed you will need a wikispaces account in order to use all features (post to the discussion, add a new page, and notifications - very useful!). I'd recommend you all sign up for a free account.
 * Mary, I've added your additions to the google doc to this wiki, too. Good points.
 * Welcome Brian, Mary & Ifeoma
 * Use the navigation bar at the left to go to exisitng pages
 * To edit an existing page click the **EDIT** button found near the upper right. I think I have it set up so you don't need a wikispaces account in order to edit. Hopefully we'll have just a few pages and edit those one lots.
 * Click the "New Page" link at the top if you want to start a new page for the wiki. I'll start one or 2 pages just to get the ball rolling, but don't feel compelled to follow my train of thought.
 * This wiki is public - but let me know if you want it made private.
 * I've never used the discussion board on this wiki - feel free to try it and we can see if it will be useful.
 * Click the Notify tab, and select to receive notifications for all edits for all pages - it's a very handy way to keep up with any changes made.
 * On some of my work wikis, we each use different colours for the posts we make. A suggestion to consider.

Peggy Hey everyone, Just checking things out here. I like the idea of colour coding or posts so I have chosen blue. I also like that Peggy put in her location that helps figure time zones.