Describe your experiences in working remotely in groups for this course. What worked, what didn’t, what challenges did you face, what solutions did you come up with? When you consider developing group activities in Distance Learning (DL) environments, what issues/concerns do you anticipate with respect to assessment of group work?

Our group was able to work easily together for the first assignment, making a Voice thread project describing an interpretive activity.  Our challenges were technological (getting the skype set up on my feeble and memory-challenged computer) and managing to synchronize our calendars. We were not dealing with time-zone issues, but we have three very different work schedules and whenever two people were available, someone else was busy!  We pulled it off, though.

I anticipate that synchronous group activities would need to be scheduled well in advance, perhaps before the class begins, to make sure that students were available for synchronous activities.