6. Project Management
Tuesday
Activities will include:
- Returning website analyses
- Announcement of collaborative partners
- Discussion of collaboration
- Stasser research on collaboration
- Concept of cohesion
- Types of collaboration
- Negotiating conflict
- An in-class computer exercise on how to create a Gantt chart using an Excel spreadsheet. Download this Excel starter file and follow the directions on the handout I give you.
- Discussion of project management theory and various PM software programs
Thursday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of proposal assignment
- Discussion of collaboration evaluation sheet
- Discussion of collaborative computing
- Collaborative assessment of collaborative tools:
- Microsoft Project
- Version Cue - collaborative server technology for Adobe Creative Suite 3.
- Groove - a Microsoft application that is available in our classroom via the Office 2007 suite.
- Google Docs - document and spreadsheet apps that can be shared via the web.
- @task - project management software.
- BaseCamp - a project management tool that helps distributed teams stay on task. Video overviews are available for various parts of the application.
- Dabble DB - a shared database application that allows teams to create data repositories over the web. Check out the introductory video.
- GoToMeeting - the wildly popular online meeting service that supports chat, conference phone calls, and shared screen meetings in almost real time.
- Yuuguu - free screen-sharing software for Mac, Windows, and Linux.