Sunday, November 30, 2008

FIT Final Team Project

Our final FIT team project has been steadily progressing over the past few weeks. We initially decided to separately brainstorm individual activities we thought would be applicable to our course. This initial activity allowed all of us to think about what we could implement or improve within the course. After about a week, the team coordinated the assignment by breaking it down into sections. Each of us selected a particular section to work on, with each of us working on either modifications to existing activities or developing new activities for the course.

So far, we’ve been communicating through email, which has worked well for our group. By separating some of the sections of the assignment, email has worked to keep the entire team in touch with what everyone is working on and planning on developing for the assignment.

Some of the challenges that I’ve experienced while working on my individual section is that the instructors have been teaching this course together for 8 years, which has proved to make the course very efficient and well-run. I think they’ve done a good job facilitating the online courses and developing assignments, which are effective for the students involved. My specific section to work on was to develop possible improvements for the course and justification for noted improvements. This was fairly challenging, as the course is well managed already. There were a few that I thought of, but it was difficult to come up with more after the first few. Two of us have been working on this section, so we’ve been able to develop several improvements as suggestions based on our own individual experiences with the course, which has been helpful.

We’re continuing to work on the final project and revise our initial ideas into finalized suggestions and plans. I think working individually on a few of the sections, then working collaboratively to revise and finalize them will work well with our team. So far, team member input has been extremely helpful to develop each of the sections as we go forward.

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