Assignment 2 Timeline

Last Wednesday fellow bluey Sarah and I did a Skype session and mapped out how to approach the onerous Assignment 2. Because of the time constraint, we did not see the value in creating three locations (Facebook, Twitter and Second Life) for collating our findings for Assignment 2. Instead we agreed to confine the online venues to the blue ning (http://itc501blue.ning.com/main/authorization/signIn?target=http%3A%2F%2Fitc501blue.ning.com%2F) to collect our bookmarks, and host our forum and chat. In addition, we committed to continue our weekly Skype session to provide synchronous communication. We have contacted Andrew Wight (in London) and he has agreed to meet us in the chat sessions and to contribute to the BluePod site.

We do not know each other well enough to be able to designate particular roles according to our individual abilities. We plan to make the Pod information accessible to all Pod members and to trust that each person will contribute to the best of their abilities.

Briefly, our timetable for the approximately three weeks remaining is:

Week 1. Do all the research and bookmark culling to address all aspects of the assignment. These bookmarks are posted to the BluePod forum with annotations and tagging to make access to key information quick and easy. The bookmarks are tagged according to the research question they address and the keywords most mentioned in the information.

Week 2. Focus on the evaluation of the forum posts by encouraging pod members to comment, discuss and offer contrary or further information. The comments become the agenda for the Skype and Chat sessions that week. If recommendations suggest themselves they are recorded in a new recommendations forum string.

Week 3. Draft the list of recommendations and post to the site forum for further comment and crafting. Towards the end of the final week, set a date when the final agreed recommendations are published.