The whole group had a very successful Skype chat on Saturday morning where we discussed several issues and came up with an action plan for the week. However, L was not present and noone seemed to know what had happened to her. Later in this week we found out that she had left the group early on. Noone had informed us. But what is telling, is that we were supposed to be collaborating in developing a resource and we did not realise until week 6 - when we were organizing a simultaneous meeting - that one of us had dropped out.
I think that illustrates how we were working on our own pieces in isolation and that the Discussion Board is not an effective way to keep track of where people are at. Our tutor apologised on the DB for not telling us. He was preoccupied in easing her exit out of the course and then when that was done, he had forgot to tell us.
We agreed on following A's tentative structure - see how it works out. I volunteered to organize the work that has been done on the wiki into folders. It is something I needed to do to see how it all hangs together and whether the proposed structure is correct. It seems to be working. I have done quite a bit of work on integrating the wiki this week and I feel we are finally collaborating. Only N seems less involved in that he has not written much content - although he has been more active on the DB this week and has made some suggestions.
We have agreed to meet weekly on Saturday morning with a Skype chat. I think this is necessary to keep the collaboration going. I feel more optimistic about the wiki this week.
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