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May 5, 2008

Contents 1 In-Class Activities 2 In-Lab Activities 3 Homework 3.1 summative blogpost: your functional role in our group 3.2 final wiki page: your functional role in our group 4 What We Did Last Class

In-Class Activities

1. Peer Feedback. Your actual individual feedback will be emailed to you by Steph in an Excel spreadsheet.
2. Fishbowl M: Evaluation (Schein Teams at the ready! You will have one more report to make as a Team, please, so that the Schein Team GROUP can complete their work on that portion of the CourseWiki.)

• The Significance of Human Conflict by Kenneth D. Benne (handout) ((in-class test material)
• Results from Test 8.
• We will determine the final evaluation criteria using these results, the work of the Evaluation Team, and anything else that you think is relevant!

a) newest proposal from the Evaluation Team

b)Feedback to Steph

c) comments to building on success and emergence of care,

d) the assessment link organized under Fishbowl K and M's task, plus

e) any of your work/memories from in-class worksheets, the wiki, and blogs.

Fishbowl M and Fishbowl N, get ready!

3. Informed Consent Form, and what will happen next - work from the Informed Consent/Study Team
4. The Dimensions of Group Development (refining the Stages, re: Weber)

In-Lab Activities

Complete the Group Assessment Form.

The Group Assessment Form (GAF) will be emailed to you via the COM352 email list.

Download the GAF and fill it out by typing: resize boxes in the chart as necessary.

You'll need to refer to the CourseWiki to complete the form.

When you are done:

Email the completed form back to Steph (as an attachment).

Write a summary of your results to post in your Weblog.

Upload your completed Group Assessment Form into your Weblog Post by using the "Attach File" command.

Go to Steph's post, Informed Consent/Study Brainstorm, and Reply with a intro/teaser to your summary and include the link to your summary post.

Homework

summative blogpost: your functional role in our group

1. Write a blogpost in your own blog about the mix of feedback that you received from Peers and also your own self perceptions. Recall the Receiver's Fact and explain what you have learned about yourself as a member of a group and what use you will make of the feedback overall. After you're done with your own reflections, read Steph's post carefully: functional roles. Reply thoughtfully, building upon the concerns raised by Steph and your own understanding of yourself as a member of this group (our class), and include a link to your own weblog posting.

final wiki page: your functional role in our group

1. Design your individual user page in the UMassWiki. For most (maybe all of you), your User Page is currently empty. If you used your User Page to design elements for your Team Project, these can be saved as a subpage to show this element of your contribution to the specific Team and our Group-as-a-whole.

In this your-very-own wiki page, I want you to mine the entire CourseWiki (Steph's posted material as well as all of the Team Work) for evidence of your presence, involvement, participation, contributions, and learnings. What did you do in this class? How did you contribute? Don't just tell us, show us by including links to the parts of class that engaged you the most. When, where, and how did you learn the most from this class? What exactly did you learn from this class?

My hope is that each of you will design your page with individual flair. How you address the questions asked is up to you. Please be aware (pending Fishbowl Approval) that this is the part of the coursewiki that I would like to rely on the most for the actual evaluation of the wiki as a final product produced by our class/group. In other words, the individual pages you create ought to be reflective of your actual academic learnings according to the topics listed as crucial to decision-making in groups (Course Description for COM 352: Group Dynamics:

1. leadership
2. networks
3. conformity
4. problem solving
5. mediation, and
6. conflict resolution.

Where possible, include links to relevant reading material, class material, and concrete instances (activity or event) that illustrate your learning concerning a given topic. Of course quotes from assigned readings are highly encouraged as well. It will also be wonderful if you can incorporate blogposts. It is up to you whether or not to identify your own anonymous blog or use it as if it belonged to someone else. You should feel free to use anyone's blogposts to demonstrate your point. (It might even be helpful to imagine a specific audience, i.e, that you are teaching someone else about group dynamics...) [And, remember that we - everyone from class - are also among the audience.]

Feel free to ask for help from peers; include notification and credit if you do. Ideally, your individual page will establish a "map" for someone to re-live the experience of this course on group dynamics through your own lens. You are telling the story of our class: make it good!

What We Did Last Class

The COM352 Group Wiki!