1.What technology where you most comfortable with? Does it work for you, individually? Why?
I felt comfortable with using Facebook since I am on it every day and am very familiar with how it works. I felt more comfortable with using Skype as well, since I finally started getting the hang of things. However, I still feel the same about Twitter (I hate Twitter!).
2. Does that technology works well for the group? Does it work for everybody? Why or why not?
Yes, I think that it worked fairly well for the group. However, we ran into some major problems with our connection via Skype during the last few times we tried to meet. This caused an inconvenience for all of us. Another major inconvenience is that my wifi modem is sort of quirky and just dies out randomly without any warning whatsoever. What can I say, the French are known for their croissants, not their high-speed internet connections! L
3. Does everybody effectively use the technology that you like?
Yes, everyone used Skype very effectively hence the bad connection problems we were having!
4. What do you think are the shortcomings on this technology? How does it not work for others?
I think that the only shortcoming with Facebook and Skype is that if someone does not have access to a faster internet connection, it just doesn’t function properly and creates more work and takes up more time trying to correct things. It just becomes more of an inconvenience for everyone involved.
5. Do you think everybody agrees with you about your technology?
Yes, I don’t see any reason why anyone would disagree!
6. What surprised you about your technology? What learning occurred? How did your first opinion change or did not change?
I think I was more surprised at how emails sometimes got too tangled up (due to us all “replying to all”, and it felt at times that it was a lot of work having to skim through all of them in order to catch up and figure out what was going on. If I wasn’t right there at that moment reading the emails, I would end up having to read all of them at once and it’s just a part of my personality that I hate reading too much of anything. I just need the short answer, tell me what to do, and boom! I gets it done, son!
I was also surprised with how Skype enabled us to have that interpersonal touch to our team, because if we relied solely on emails, googledocs, and the blog, it probably would have taken us much longer to get things done AND I am imagining that we would have likely had some major misunderstandings.
7. Describe a story about the learning you had with your technology and share how you saw that at play with the group, i.e. when you learned something and trained others in what you learned. Describe results; behaviors displayed.
Well, I learned that I need a new friggin wifi modem because it kept interfering with my ability to post Adele’s hot new video to our FB page! THEN, I didn’t want my post to show up on my own personal wall, so when I clicked to delete from my wall, it also automatically deleted from the FSPS FB page, so I had to re-do it all over again. And doing this while having bad internet connection – frustrating!
Mapped out moods of communication (PRE-experiment)
| Types of tasks | ||||
| Modes of communication | Generating idea and collecting data | Problems with answers | Problems without answers | Negotiating technical or interpersonal conflicts |
| Audio | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Text messaging | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Blogs | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Google docs | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Skype | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Face-to-face | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Instant messaging | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5= most used/effective 4=effective 3=generally used 2=ineffective 1=least used 0= usele | ||||
Mapped out moods of communication (POST-experiment)
| Types of tasks | ||||
| Modes of communication | Generating idea and collecting data | Problems with answers | Problems without answers | Negotiating technical or interpersonal conflicts |
| Audio | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Text messaging | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Blogs | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Google docs | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Skype | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Face-to-face | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Instant messaging | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5= most used/effective 4=effective 3=generally used 2=ineffective 1=least used 0= usele | ||||
Mapped out moods of communication (post-experiment)
| | Types of tasks | | | |
| Modes of communication | Generating idea and collecting data | Problems with answers | Problems without answers | Negotiating technical or interpersonal conflicts |
| Audio | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Text messaging | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| e-mail | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Blogs | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Google docs | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Twitter | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Skype | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Facebook | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Face-to-face | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Instant messaging | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 5= most used/effective 4=effective 3=generally used 2=ineffective 1=least used 0= usele | ||||
