6. Project Management
Tuesday
Activities will include:
- Announcement of collaborative partners
- Discussion of of Chapter 5 and 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 this download.
- 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
- Groove - a Microsoft application that is available in our classroom via the Office 2007 suite.
- Syncplicity - a Groove imitator.
- Wiggio - free group collaboration aggregator.
- Remember the Milk - stupid name, amazing results. The leading shared to-list app.
- Box.net - excellet file sharing application.
- Google Docs - document and spreadsheet apps that can be shared via the web.
- EtherPad - real-time collaborative writing application.
- DimDim - free web conferencing software that works cross platform as well.
- Google Wave - new real-time collaborative tool from Google.
- a host of other free collaborative tools.