Our small group, the Specific Pacifics, forge ahead. It is truly the best team I have ever worked with in an online course and I am counting my blessings! Maybe we are all getting better at the small group format. That's probably part of it, but I know I just ended up with good people too. We are brainstorming our charter, throwing out specific ideas from the readings as well as our own personal thoughts. Everyone checks in regularly and the "work" (if you can call it that, feels more like comfortable conversation) continues to be very equitable. We have begun the process of brainstorming ideas for the content of our paper, online social collaborative opportunities for instructors. I think we will have more trouble with this because it feels a little broad and nebulous. I doubt we have the same experiences, or perhaps even the same definition of collaboration. I'm confident we'll hone it down though and it'll be good.
It's been fun reading the ideas for the individual papers. I'm having a hard time researching mine because I get utterly immersed in it, look up and two hours have gone by. I will need to focus and starting putting the pen to paper (fingers to keys) early this week.
Taking two courses at a time is MUCH harder than taking one of the supposedly more intense 5 week courses. It does not help that we had finals this week and now shift into second semester where I will have 3 preparations. Sleep is suffering and I have succumbed to my first cold virus of the season. Sigh.
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Lori, what a great team update! Such great news! I agree that your final topic is a bit broad, but that's fine at this point in the course. You mentioned that there may be a variety of interpretations of the topic - good topic for further discussions to determine if '4' interpretations can make for a nicely combined paper. ~ Datta Kaur
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