Oct 31, 2010
My reflections on the Planning Stage activities
Planning the project with the use of Google Docs hasn't turned out to be a fun rewarding experience I hoped it would be. First of all, there were problems of technical nature. My group members did not reply to my invitations to collaborate on the Google Docs and I was afraid that they were not able to get to the planning form, and went on creating new documets and sending invitations to my group members for hours. I also hoped planning to involve direct and enthusiastic exchange of opinions, but our schedules were different and there was not much of lively communication among us. I'm thinking, setting out some tasks for each of us to do daily and deciding on the time when all of us could come and chat about our work could have been a solution. And of course, this could have been achieved by setting the Google Docs Calendar, but I had started working on it and gave it up as something quite useless. I should have known better.
Not everything was bad, though. We managed to brainstorm ideas for the project and each of us contributed what she could to the development of the project plan. My ideas, as always, turned out to be too complicated - I was trying to figure out exactly how the project would be going. So, it probably needs some simplification, but nobody so far has suggested which parts of it should be got rid of. Still, we don't have to simplify it. I believe, it may be possible for students to carry out this project - all depends on their language level and enthusiasm.
Not everything was bad, though. We managed to brainstorm ideas for the project and each of us contributed what she could to the development of the project plan. My ideas, as always, turned out to be too complicated - I was trying to figure out exactly how the project would be going. So, it probably needs some simplification, but nobody so far has suggested which parts of it should be got rid of. Still, we don't have to simplify it. I believe, it may be possible for students to carry out this project - all depends on their language level and enthusiasm.
Oct 29, 2010
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