Lost in Translation

The final product has been uploaded on to Sulis, ready for translation. Not sure on their progress or how it's going, just going to have to wait and see how it turns out (not that I would understand the translated version).

This will be the strange part of the project, because it's nearly impossible to keep up with the French team to see how they are progressing. Best thing to do will be to regularly check Sulis to see if they have any questions about our work.

Product Uploaded

Our group as finally uploaded our final product on Sulis. It was a hectic week of back-and-forth emails, most people were scrambling trying to figure out what they were going to do. At first, I thought it was understood that we would all collaborate on Google Drive -- as that's also what our project is based on. But only half of us ended up doing our parts on Google Drive and one person on Word. Unfortunately, the information does not transfer back and forth easily. It ended up being someone's sole job to put all the information together in a Word document.

After reflecting on the happenings, it probably should have been made clear which medium we should be doing our work on.

After much blood, sweat, tears, confusion, and bouts of pandemonium, the final draft was uploaded on Sulis on 2/22/2013 at 9:00 AM.

Collaboration's Beginnings

Work has begun on the instruction set for Google Drive. Two others have submitted some work. Unfortunately, one wasn't exactly an instruction set, but rather paragraphs of text saying what to do. In my mind, an instruction set is accompanied by many images, with bullets of short commanding sentences.

The other student that submitted work did so through Word and not Google Drive, so unfortunately for him, the work will not copy over to Drive 100%. It will probably have to be re-typed. I redid the one student's work that wrote the paragraphs, and converted it into short bullets and added pictures of what the bullets are talking about through use of the Window's snipping tool.

After that, I did two more sections of the document, on sharing and creating tables, and re-emailed the link to the drive document to all the students so they may all see what an instructional document is supposed to look like. Nothing to do now but wait and hope that others do some more parts :)

Here's the link to the Google Drive doc that is intended to be the final product... eventually.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyxMsczXzpAo8NozO9MP1f3hh_-FE8njwQgiMLba-f4/edit



Group projects are usually daunting tasks when trying to collaborate with people that have constricted schedules, such as myself. Then try to do with people in other countries... interested/scared to see how this all pans out.

Survey Says...

Last night the survey was completed, 8 members of the group voted on what they would like to do the project on. It was a contest between Google Drive and Twitter. There were 6 votes for Google Drive and 2 votes for Twitter, so the instruction set on Google Drive usability may commence! I am glad to see that the group cares about equality of opinions, however I do feel like Google Drive is much better.

First Contact and Topic Discussion 2/11/2013

We have begun discussing possible topics to work on together through Sulis, as well as through e-mail. I began the chat room by introducing myself to any listening ears (eyes?) on Sulis. A couple of people agreed to the idea of doing the project on Google Drive, as well as writing the instructional document about Google Drive. I created the document below, and edited in such a way as to allow everyone to share ideas until we were unanimously set on doing this.

Google Drive link