1. LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 8) ~ Planning the virtual team project~

2. LCN600 – Online tutorial (Week 8) ~ Planning the project~
Module 4
Making contact with your virtual team
Getting started with the project
Key connected learning elements
About e-moderation
Keeping connected
? Questions, concerns?

3. Making contact with your virtual team
The sooner you hold the first team meeting, the more time you have to work on the project , so …
Add your contact details on your team page on G+ community asap
E-moderators to arrange a team meeting by end of Week 8
Use whatever means of communications suits you best to organise your team and communicate
If you use G+ community for your team - please set up separate one outside the main CL G+ community
If you want to use Collaborate for your team meetings - ask Hilary to set up a Team Room - 'open all hours‘ - with full moderation rights for all team members.

4. About e-moderation
Thanks to first e-moderators for getting your teams off to a good start
Set an e-mod roster for the rest of the project - rotate the e-mod role weekly - everyone gains e-mod leadership experience - and shares the load
E-mod monitors progress, organises weekly meetings, maybe does some trouble-shooting – and delegates - doesn’t have to do all the work!
Please be kind to your e-mods each week 

5. 5 step model of e-moderation …
promoting human interaction and communication, through the modelling, conveying and building of knowledge and skills …through using the mediation of online environments designed for interaction and collaboration.
(Gilly Salmon, 2011, p. 5)
5 step model of e-moderation …
The virtual teams are intended to be self-managing. Everyone plays a vital part in team organisation and project management.
This means that it’s up to you as a team to decide the topic how you will run the project.
The role of e-moderator – or team leader - will rotate each week to ensure that everyone gains experience in this role and also shares the load.
Hilary and Mandy will act as team advisers. We will only intervene if team members ask us to.
Broadly speaking, the e-moderator’s role is to motivate and coordinate rather than direct or censor.
Gilly Salmon (2011, p. 5) describes e-moderating as an active verb, like learning and teaching. And she describes the role of e-moderator as “promoting human interaction and communication, through the modelling, conveying and building of knowledge and skills …Through using the mediation of online environments designed for interaction and collaboration”.
Her five stage model of teaching and learning online offers a useful approach for understanding and undertaking the e-moderation process (2011, p. 32).
You will find this model in Module 2
And detailed step by step guide to e-moderation in the Virtual team project guide.

6. Five step model of e-moderation (Gilly Salmon)
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Salmon, G. (2012). Chapter 2. A model for collaborative online learning. In E-moderating: The key to teaching and learning online (3rd. ed.) (pp ). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. [Available via CMD or as e-book via QUT Library catalogue].

7. Keeping connected Live the connectvity through this project!
Please keep in contact with your team members - early on, plan who will do what and when - negotiate time off / making up for time away - let them know if you get sick or have other issues
Update team adviser(Hilary) with BRIEF weekly report (dot points)
Try to self-manage the team – but contact the team adviser if a problem is getting too hard to resolve

8. Keeping it manageable
The project is the whole focus for learning and assessment from now until end Week 13
Plan to put in 8-10 hours average per week to the team project
- but no more!
For Assignment 2 you need to complete a ‘project journal’ - log of your hours and input to the team project. - see Assignment 2 template on BB Assessment page
- here’s what it looks like …

9. Project journal Outline your contributions for each week
About 200 words (total) - equired written style = Note form.
Semester
Week
Approx hours worked on project
Add number
Participation in team meetings
Highlight/comment as appropriate
Turn as e-moderator
Highlight as appropriate
Week 8
Participated: Yes / No
Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/ /Other
Comment (optional):
E-mod:
Yes / No
Week 9
Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Via: Skype/Hangout/F2F/Other

10. Getting started with the project
Take it gently 
First team meeting - Take time to get to know team members Share interests, availability etc – before getting into detailed planning
Identify who will be available when - negotiate your input around any time away
Start brainstorming possible topics
Aim for consensus on topic by end Week 9 – you may need to vote
See Module 4 Read the Virtual Teams Project guide Check assignment 2 requirements – keep a close eye on them throughout the project

11. Key connected learning elements
Peer supported
Interest powered
Academically oriented
How will you integrate these elements?
Examples?
Team names?

12. ~ Week 8~ Questions??