15/5 Week of 9/04/17 - 9/10/17

15/5

Week of 9/04/17 - 9/10/17

IDT 7095

Tracy McLaughlin

tmclghln@memphis.edu

mclaughlindscc@gmail.com

DSM Instructional Design website 

Team Assigned Tasks:

This week was a bit crazy for our team, yet we agreed that a lot of important assignments were completed. Our group met in person over the weekend of 9/4/17. We texted and emailed each other daily to make sure we were on the same page as far as the upcoming meeting with Dr. Reynolds on Friday 9/8/17. We shared a group phone call before we met with Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Tawfik. After the meeting, we exchanged meeting notes and we had another group phone call on Sunday 9/10/17 to clarify some issues, and made arrangements for a group call on Monday 9/11/17, in order to plan the next week.  The group decided that I should be the Lead Team Site Manager, mainly because I have experience with online course development using Blackboard (and other LMSs). However, because we have three people on the team, we will all work in various roles as necessary. I do not feel that I did as much as I should have on the project this week, and this will be addressed in the reflection section of this blog.

Reflection: 

One of the team members took on the majority of the creation of documents this week. This was unfair to that person, and also made the other team members feel left out. We realized we needed to discuss this issue, which is why we had a group call on Sunday. Moving forward, we agreed to assign tasks at the beginning of the week. We would stay in contact during the week. We agreed to each have our assignments completed on Saturdays. The other team members then have Sundays to review. I realize the project responsibilities won't always be this "tidy",  and we will need to work synchronously at times, but this agreement may alleviate concerns that team members are falling behind--as well as concerns that team members are being left out. Going forward, I expect the time I spend writing/editing to be significantly higher than this week, as our responsibilities will be more definite.

Time:

Group meetings/emails/texts: 45 minutes daily

Client Meeting: 1 1/2 hour

Writing/Editing: 2 hours