812 Part A: Brainstorm Session

Here is the link to the YouTube video of our group's initial brainstorming session for our CEP 812 Group Leadership Project in which all group members were present and participating and a timeline was discussed. For this particular meeting, our group used Vyew, a free online video-conferencing software. The advantages of this particular tool are that a larger group of members are able to participate (whereas other tools are limited to two or three people), and there is an audio chat, text chat, recording, document sharing, and document page capabilities. The disadvantages involved the difficulties with reverberation with the audio; however, we were able to use the chat function to complete our initial planning for our project. Personally, I had a difficult time following the conversation because it was constantly moving as group members continued to contribute to our discussion. Thankfully, there is a feature on Vyew that allows for the conversation to be downloaded. I found this especially helpful afterwards to make sure I hadn't missed anything significant. 

For our Group Leadership Project, we decided to focus on the educational possibilities of a variety of Google Apps. Each member of our group is researching a specific Google App (or two related Apps) with the focus on its relevancy in the classroom. We also decided to use Google Presentation for our final project and are also using Google Docs to collaborate throughout the research process. I personally selected Google Calendar and am in the process of learning more advanced capabilities of the application and how it can be used most efficiently in an educational setting.