Collaboration Technology

For this blog I feel that it would be most appropriate to use personal experiences to discuss the use and application of today's collaboration technologies in classroom group-work. You know, it's so commonplace now, but text-messaging is a very effective collaborative tool. In the process of setting up group meetings, attempting to make small changes while not in the group setting, or for simple questions, text messaging has been the perfect solution. In the actual process of sharing information and the compilation of our group's separate efforts, e-mail has been paramount. It's so simple to just do a portion of the work, and then via e-mail, put it all together. In today's culture it's hard to imagine how group work was ever accomplished, pre-technology, we'll call it. However, for all its vaunted convenience, it cannot replace the need of actually getting together to work. That, I believe, is still essential, but, as it pertains to college students and their use of collaboration technologies in the classroom, with all of us, the students, having conflicting schedules, it is the only way to get it all done.