Representatives from Group 1 (Video Instruction), Group 2 (us), Group 4 (Web Team), and Josephine met up in SL yesterday evening, following the meeting with Rafi Santo/Global Kids. We started to address some of the challenges in collaborating between groups, namely time constraints and scheduling. We discussed what might be some more efficient ways to communicate between groups working with HAF in the coming weeks, coming to no solid conclusion…but we did decide to try to organize a real-time SL meeting next Sunday sort of in lieu of the class meeting to discuss group projects. Josephine agreed to organize this with Jason, and send out emails.

We also discussed using Skype to have group meetings in combination with Twiddla (the whiteboarding tool suggested by Josephine) for communicating with each other visually. Currently, it seems easiest to get everyone to meet up in SL, but maybe something to think about for the future.

We briefly discussed ways we might collaborate, but soon decided we would all need to be further along in our projects before being able to address those ideas more productively. Josephine made the point that projects did not have to be “finished” by the end of the semester and that the process was just as important as the final product, though I got the feeling that all of us kind of wanted to have a final product by the end of the semester, if possible.

Some of the things we did discuss:

Group 1: would need a spot on the website created by Group 4, to place or embed a video they are creating with LYIA

Group 2: would need 2 types of spaces for their project on the webpage- 1) a place for social media created by LYIA youth and others (i.e. links to blogs, myspace accounts, etc.), so that they can all be found through a central HAF/LYIA online source; and 2) a space for the online curriculum that will be culled from the classroom curriculum currently being taught by LYIA (this space needs to be open to growth as it may eventually house the entire online curriculum; may possibly incorporate dynamic aspects in the future?)

Group 4: may also be working with other groups, other than 1 and 2? is still working on things…

In preparation for the meeting this upcoming Sunday, I think we agreed to try to make some progress on our projects, and to try to have some materials/prototypes to show others on Sunday in order to facilitate further collaboration between groups.