week 2 : 13 january
Course Introduction

Tonight's Schedule

• Introductions
• Course Overview
• Review syllabus, course requirements
  • Teams - projects, deliverables, assessment
  • Workshops - dates? times?
  • Reading assignments - due date?
  • MS Project and online PM tools
  • Office Hours : Tuesday, 4.30 - 5.30 and by appointment
  • Office : 251B Communications Buildiing
• WWW history and culture
  • Hypertext
  • Platform, software independent
  • Standards
  • Storytelling :
    History of the Tube Map
    USA Today Mars Landing
• Optimal design team members and roles
• Why Project Management?
• In-class lab:
  • Team building exercise : Win As Much As You Can
    • Bridging the Gap between Theory and Application: Activities that Tie Leadership Education to the Real World
    • Facilitator Guide and Tally Sheets (note that sheet 1 has a typo in scoring box)
  • Become acquainted with UWICK tools (Secure FTP)
    • Creating a student web site
    • Moving files to your web directory
    • UWICK
    • Secure FTP

Notes

• Powerpoint Slides -- a PDF handout, all links are either on this page or the online resources page
  

Assignments

• Readings (please respond to questions and ePost by 6pm on Monday)
  • Question: Think of a team you've worked on before. Was it effective or not? Why?
    • Characteristics of Effective Teams
    • Top Three Characteristics of Effective Teams
    • Teams as networks
  • Question: How do you prefer to communicate with team members? Does your experience validate this study? Why or why not?
    Functional Work Groups and Evaluations of Communication Channels: Comparisons of Six Competing Theoretical Perspectives, JCMC 6 (1) September 2000
• Resources
  • Penn State Building Blocks for Teams (for student/classes)
  • Also see resources page