Week 5 Reflection Activity

The team that I worked with was David, Danny, Becky and Jay. Everyone was easy to work with and it was very easy to brainstorm with them as a team. Everyone was respectful and added to the conversation. I got the sense that my team members are used to collaboration and that is why we worked well together. They also very mindful of deadlines. We did all of our communication through email, we have well over one hundred emails between all of us. This was the best experience I’ve had with distance collaboration. I really think that we as a team embodied the Pixar attitude for collaboration, the idea of “plus this” as per the video from Randy Nelson of Pixar (http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video). "Plus this" collaboration allows for free acceptance of ideas and the willingness to put aside your own vanity to make the team look good (http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video).


We did have some difficulties with sharing large multimedia files. For data sharing we used a site called http://www.drivehq.com/ to share our files and did a lot of our collaboration over email.

I did a Google search and found this site, it’s free to create an account and it allowed us to have a central location that allows large file sizes to be uploaded up to 100MB each.
A major flaw with this site is that at a certain point it will say that we have used up the amount of data that we are allowed to transfer on a monthly basis on their free service. For a subscription fee it will allow unlimited. We ended up creating multiple accounts because of this. It made collaboration difficult.

At the end of this course my team has a PSA and I got to know some of my fellow classmates.



Thanks!

Sandra Villarreal


Works Cited: Nelson, R. (2008). Learning and working in the collaborative age: A new model for the workplace. Edutopia. Retrieved April 23, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video.