Weeks 6-8

Week Six:
3/1/10 – Jessica sends first e-mail to group sharing some information and beginning a discussion on group dynamics. Kathy initiates discussion about specific group roles. We begin sharing information about ourselves (profiles, etc.) and Jessica and Kathy volunteer to act as our group’s leaders.
3/2/10 – Josh informs the group about the 17 hr. time difference between California and Japan where he is located. The group has some discussion about establishing ground rules, communication and using Google docs, Microsoft Live Office Workspace, or Team Files. The group agrees to read through A2 and begin working on steps 1-2.
3/3/10 – Melissa gets us started using the Team Discussion forum with the 1st post directed to the new group. Kathy asks for suggestions regarding user group. All the group members have checked in a posted something by this point except for John.
3/4/10 – Melissa provides group with availability document. Kathy asks for voting to begin for selecting our user group.
3/7/10 – Kathy sends out document defining team roles and responsibilities and providing a time line. Kathy calls for a final vote on user group. Josh and Rich agree to be Document Managers for the team. Articles are divided among group. Melissa offers to set up document for preco/postco terms. Jessica creates the database. The group is using a combination of e-mail and the team forum for communication.

Week Seven:
3/8/10 – 3/10/10 – All group members begin posting their preco/postco terms. Kathy suggests a protocol for saving and renaming files in the Team Documents and creates a document outlining Team Roles and Responsibilities for each group member and Tasks for Week 6. Rich suggests sharing terms and feedback from WA#4.
3/11/10 – Everyone is working on second set of terms. Melissa volunteers to format and submit the group document due on Monday.
3/12/10 – Jessica took care of one of John's article and Kathy did the other. Josh is working on his 2nd article.
3/13/10 – Kathy sends out a reminder for the assignment due on the 15th and Josh lets the group know about some communication problems he was having (not receiving all e-mails). The group works on Excel file so that we have something to submit at end of evening to Prof. Wilson.
3/14/10 – Kathy shares initial feedback from Prof. Wilson with team. Group works on preco and postco terms throughout the day.
3/15/10 – Kathy sends out a list of what needs to get done by the end of the day (due date). The team works on coming to a consensus on the preco list, postco list, which terms are assigned to each article, and also help check the validation lists, records, and final version of the Word file. Jessica enters preco and postco validation lists into the database and assigns the terms to each article before sending out the database to the team for review. Melissa extracts the database structure, validation lists, and records and puts them into an APA formatted Word file before submitting the document for Wilson’s review.

Week Eight:
3/16/10 – Day of rest.
3/17/10 – Josh and Rich begin communicating about Part B. Kathy posts the tasks for the week.
3/18/10 – Josh begins adding comments, field descriptions, rules, and explanations for searching by term and field to the user's guide Team file (v4). Melissa shares the feedback from Prof. Wilson with the group.
3/19/10 – Rich updates team blog and works with Josh on Part B – User Guide document.

Group Communication (as of 3/19/10):

Kathy: 18 e-mails, 7 threads, 28 responses, 53 total
Melissa: 8 e-mails, 2 threads, 24 responses, 34 total
Jessica: 1 e-mail, 30 threads, 29 responses, 60 total
Josh: 5 emails, 5 threads, 10 responses, 20 total
Rich: 3 e-mails, 6 threads, 29 responses, 38 total
John: 0 e-mails, 0 threads, 0 responses, 0 total
Group: 35 e-mails, 50 threads, 120 responses 205 total

Note: I thought this might be an interesting way to look at our group communication so far. It appears that we have somewhat of a balance between using e-mail, starting new threads in the Team forum, and responding to other group member's posts with the use of the Team forum as our primary form of communication.

Welcome!

Welcome to the LIBR 202 Team 3 Blog for Assignment #2!

I decided to create this blog so our team can have a place to reflect on how we are working together as a group each week, and also to help us to prepare for our individual evaluations which are part of the final work product (see below).

Evaluation requirement: An individual evaluation of the group process including your contributions, group communication process, and strengths and weaknesses with the group exercise. This should not exceed two pages. (This evaluation is worth 2 pts of the total score given.)

I plan to go back to the first week of working together on A2 and then write a brief summary of each group member's contributions and how well the team is functioning for each week. Please feel free to contribute your own thoughts (or post your own contributions) to the blog and help me to make sure that I haven't overlooked any important contributions.

Thanks!

Rich Meland