It Begins

Four Star Platinum Squadron: Manual for FSPS Virtual Collaboration

Our proposal for PRST 303 will be an operations manual for virtual collaboration, encompassing best practice, approved methods for collaboration and the details of the specific technologies the group chose to use, while actually creating the manual for our fictional multi-national entertainment empire.

This blog will be one of the asynchronous methods of communication across our team (in addition to email) but will primarily act as a repository of our efforts and act as a soundboard; e.g. copies of team chat transcriptions, links to websites of interest for the team and notifications to the team. 

We intend to experiment with Wiki, Twitter, Chat, Skype, Facebook, Google Docs, Adobe Connect and other technologies as solutions and use that survey to fuel the content choices for our manual and build a consensus for works best.

Practical experience plus classroom theory should yield an interesting experience and a realistic product.

We will select our team leader 1/14/12 when we are joined in class by Amy. EDIT: The group has selected Matt as leader. In Week 2 we will finish surveying all the technologies listed above, describe the sections of the manual from a project management point of view and establish roles for team members and tasks, leaving room for incorporating new learning both in and outside of the classroom. Week 3 we will describe a fictional project that our team must complete to provide context to this exercise and backlight the selection and rejection methods our group employs.

Sincerely,

                The Four Star Platinum Squadron

Amy Addou
Baeednah Anderson
Matt Lechtenberg
Robert Pino