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Once the group had a look at the Development page, the process became more defined as group members were asked to set up names, email addresses, and Skype names along with the use colour coding to make it easier for other group members to understand who was contributing and how the assignment was developing.


 * Colour Codes: This will make it easier for other participants to see who is adding what comments or content.**
 * To change the text colour:**
 * Highlight the text you want,**
 * You then click on the fourth button above (The T with a potato behind it - maybe it's a world) while in EDIT mode,**
 * Click on the Black field by Text Colour and a colour chart shows up,**
 * Go to the colour chart and pick a non chosen colour,**
 * Click the Apply Styles button. Viola.**

Doug Engh = **Green - Skype = doug_38; Email = doug.engh@sait.ca** Kevin Campbell = Red﻿ (Skype name: kevinscampbell13) Email- kevin.campbell@ sait.ca ﻿Colleen Rogan = Blue crogan@ucalgary.ca (skype= colleen.rogan1) David Abma = Black﻿ - dwabma@ucalgary.ca Micaela Wasylik = Purple (Skype name: micaela.wasylik) email - mwasylik@rdcrd.ab.ca Greg Wedman = Pink (Skype name: gkwedman) email - greg.wedman@wrsd.ca ﻿**Jason Low = Colour?** Skype = ; Email = [|Jason.Low@sunwestsd.ca] Maria Kelly= Gray mariakelly@telus.net (skype=mariakelly.ca)

**Discussions:** **Do we want to have an initial group discussion about the following, and others points that will likely be added by other members, to determine the best approach?** ﻿A Skype meeting might be good (see below)

I would agree about an initial meeting Agreed!

**Then, how do we want to communicate on research, development, other resources, what kind of tools to research, what to present, and how to develop the project?** ﻿ I thought it might be cool to present about our presentation! For example, present on our communication process to develop the project and the communication process for presenting our topic. How did WE use Wiki, Skype and email to pull this all together? That's a pretty good idea! We could talk more about it via skype. That is a neat idea. It is speaking on our experience. I also think we should present on new innovative next generation technology. We are using some great collaborative technologies on this project however we could also look into newer communication technologies for our presentation.

**How to communicate? Skype, email, ??** I prefer a format like this to communicate (rather than email) because you can see the conversation "thread". I often get confused sorting through emails to follow the discussion. Perhaps a Skype call to get us started and another to discuss our "rough" work and how we want to groom it. I can't believe my old Skype acc't of 2002 still works :) so skype is good toget to say hello. We can a look at that collaboration chart and choose what collaboration style we wish to emulate :) I am Ok with using Skype however I think e-mail is good for communicating key issues.

I also think that this asyncrounous environment is best suited to conduct and document the research. I like this method because you can track threads and ideas. I've been using Google Docs a lot lately and prefer it, but I can handle a WIki. I agree with asynchronous environment for reseacrh. This wiki definitely works well for that.

**When to communicate? Evening and / or weekends ??** ﻿ Any evening except Thursday works for me (I teach Thursday night). I work full time during the day. Asynchronous studies work best -- within a timetable that we can agree on once we have had our initial meeting I'm usually free weeknights but would prefer to avoid Friday nights or Saturdays. I work full time, too! :) I am available most week-day evenings and Saturday afternoon and night.﻿  Late evenings are best for me, things don't slow down here until the kids are in bed. If needed, I can sometimes take some time during the day, as I have some flexibility.

I think this limitation will help us weed olut the good from the bad, typically I am able to dedicate a couple of hours during the day and very little during the evenings.

**Who is going to be responsible for what area (ie, research an old technology, a new technology)?** Determine in our initial meeting?

Agree Agreed Agreed This will need to be discussed in the subsequent meeting also as all were not able to make the 9pm Sunday night initial meeting. **I would suggest using a wiki (such as this) as a tool to develop the assignment, write it up, present it and show on separate pages how the group did it.** **One or more persons can work on the same page/document to get it in shape.** **We could use Skype to chat while we are working in a page.** **Agree** Agreed **﻿Sounds great!** Sounds good. We can also use a tool like Camtasia Studios to capture screen actions. It would capture actions on the computer screen as a type of video. That could maybe be used as both a collaboration tool and also possibly used in our actual presentation to show some of the actual real life events that occured during this process. A demo can be viewed at this link: [] What do you think of the software? Have any of you ever used it? Camtasia is very fine - still has a 30 days free use so that's a bonus. I actually use this software a lot. A few years agon I presented a workshop on the pedagogical implications and uses of Camtasia at the CELC E-Learning conference UBC in 2009. I would be pleased to edit our production with this if this the direction we want to go.. **Questions:**

Hi guys, what I would suggest is that we decide on a few of the top old technologies and a few of the best current technologies to research as a group. Then work thru each one as an entire group for a specified period of time (ex. telephone/skype: make a specific time to hold a conference call to discuss the tool, and all members can participate or not), with each member tasked with identifiying the benifits, key features and limitations of each tool. I believe this collaborative effort would allow us to highlight the good and the bad of these tools. We could then use these pages as Doug suggests to document the process. After we have identified the best collaborative tool using this process then we could use that tool to develop the presentation.

HI Kevin - that sounds good to me. I would suggest we add to the list: ways to use the technology for teaching ie. activities and associated learning theories. I think it might be good to use "adapted" charts from Assignment #2 to frame the work.

I think that is a good idea Colleen

Great ideas. I think that in addition to old technologies, and current technologies, I suggest we also add innovative leading edge collaboratibe communication technologies.

**Skype meeting.** I sent the same information as below to the course/Discussion Board/Technology post. Hey guys, We might want to get mobilized and onto Skype for an initial conversation about how we want to proceed and then go with the tools we want to use, etc. I can set up a skype group or someone else can do that if they want. My Skype name is: doug_38. I will put this in the Wiki as well. So, I (if I am going to do this) need your Skype names. If you don't have a Skype account, you need to download the software from: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/windows/. The download option is on the left lower side. If the install process asks you to add extras (Yahoo Toolbar, Google, etc) just un-click that option unless you really want it. Then you create an account, locate my account using the name above, and send a request to hook up. Once hooked up as a group, we would need to determine a time that would work to talk about A3. Doug

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