Collaboration on an online project like developing a wiki is fun if everyone is collaborating. It becomes challenging if you have to work with a team that either is reluctant taking up their responsibilities in the group or probably, for one reason or the the other, do not at all contribute to the group collaboration.
In the last experience I had with group collaboration task, the experience was not so good; although it made me learn a lot in the process. For starters, only three members of the five were taking part actively. Of the three, two continued to the end and of the two one seemed not very conversant with what exactly was supposed to be done. The one left did something which, at this juncture, I must condemn! Not reading what the rest of the members had come up with, the said person decided to delete all the work two of us had come up with; the research write up and links were all deleted and substituted with what the person saw fitting. Good enough, it seemed to be relevant to what was needed. I later had to work within what was submitted making adjustments here and there although I was not in agreement with this move because the rest of the group members' work was not appreciated. We were working on a wiki page.
In all I learnt that:
- It is important that all members communicate and set clear goals, objectives and tasks knowing who does what and when.
- Ground rules which ensure work is done in time and respect for one another's work and opinions should be set.
- All members should be familiar with the platform the collaboration work is going to work with
- A contingency plan in the event that one or more of the members is not delivering needs to be in place
I was particularly drawn by a resource that guided teachers on how to handle cyber bullying (the link is on the wiki we built) and another which had almost everything about cyber bullying
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