this project isn't really that hard, just have to organize things and get things rolling. We have talked about doing Berlin and writing a letter. Opened a Google doc and starting to write.
Our group started our project today. We've got the Google Doc set up and a bit of the writing started. Our city is Berlin and we're writing a sort of daily diary entry/blog post for during our "trip". I'm a little concerned about the communication process.
Also, Danielle, I know that to type umlauts on a Mac (I don't know what type of computer you have), you hold down the alt-option key and hit "u". Then you lift up from both keys and then type the letter you want the umlauts over.
Ok thanks Laura. I ended up just typing it in a regular word document and just copied the text over. The umlauts copied with it so that seemed to work. Another extra step, but thanks!
My group is also using Google Doc. We plan on posting pictures of places to see in Frankfurt and then commenting/describing the different attractions. We will use the comments to formulate a story about someone's experience visiting Frankfurt. Thanks for the tips on getting umlauts! Very helpful.
My group is working on creating an outline using google docs and then we plan on writing our story. We plan on doing a hang over style piece about waking up in Berlin and not remembering what happened the night before. I am worried that there might be some confusion in my group about how to use the google doc but hopefully it all gets figured out.
My group is using google docs. Google makes me f#*&%$@ angry! It's not intuitive,and I've had nothing but problems trying to work with google docs. How does this help my German comprehension? I've certainly learned several new adjectives when explaining the quality of google docs, but I don't see how this makes me a better linguist.
It was kind of confusing to get used at first since I've never used google docs/gmail/ anything of the sort but it got fairly easy pretty fast. We uploaded the first destination to visit in Salzburg and read over the document. We've decided to break up the project into 3 parts, each one visiting a new destination in salzburg so we'll meet again online sunday afternoon.
My group is breaking up the writing project into parts. We are each writing a postcard to someone from Dresden. This is helpful because we only have to worry about writing our own section and then we will met again to read over and correct the other peoples.
Our group chose Berlin. Danielle already wrote the first part, and Alex and I are going to build off of that. For those who are interested, it is possible to install the US-International keyboard (not sure about mac) which allows you to switch between German and English keyboard layouts. I find it convenient since we do a fair amount of writing in this class and it can be inconvenient to always be hunting for ß and umlauts.
My group has started to write on Google Docs. We are doing Frankfurt and are each writing a part about something a person sees in Frankfurt. Our project is going well as of now. We are also adding pictures.
Looking for ideas for pictures...are people who are just writing a story including another separate page of pictures that just go along with the story, like a collage?? Just looking for ideas.
Our group just met again for the second time and we have 2/3 of it written. I have the next paragraph and when we edit that we'll format it, add photos, and it should be good to go. Everything's going good.
I wrote my piece for my group yesterday. It was pretty easy to use the google docs, and the way we are doing it lets people work independently. It'll be interesting to see how we take our individual entries and make it into a finished product.
Today, Katie, Justin, and I met on Skype to work on our paper. It went very well and now we are done. It was hard for us to find a time to meet to do the project but once we started working it only took about an hour.
Today, Katie, Megan and I went on Skype to work on our paper. This went very well, and we ended up finishing it after a couple of hours. One of the only problems that we encountered was finding out when to meet, and I had some issues with my computer. Other than this our meeting went very well, and we got everything finished in a timely manner.
Today our group (Megan, Justin and I) met via Skype to work on our project. It worked surprisingly well, I just wish we would have had the ability to all see each other instead of just verbally communicating on the phone. Overall the process was a lot easier then I expected. It was really convenient that on Google docs, you could see where everyone's cursor was.
I feel like I need to play a bigger part in the group. All I've done is add pictures to our document so I'm going to start pulling my weight because it is not fair for the rest of the members of my group. We still have time, and I think we are going to be fine. I Google Docs is so convenient I want to set something similar up for my group project in my Filipino class.
We're just about finished with our project. I'm a little bit concerned about some of the content of our project. While it's very creative, I'm not sure if it stays completely on the prompt. At least we've got today to make some adjustments.
Our project is close to completion. Google Docs was simple to use and this online project allowed each group member to contribute at his or her own convenience. In the past, I have found it very difficult to meet outside of class with groups due to conflicting schedules. Overall, I am happy with each group member's contribution to the project. After some proofreading, our group should be finished with the schreibprojekt.
We just finished our first meeting. After initial problems starting the conversation (to get into a group chat took about 15 minutes worth of fumbling), the conversation, planning, and correcting went very well. We discussed grammar issues with the text thus far, and next steps for the project.
After finishing our second meeting, we are set to complete our project. The online meetings have the benefit of keeping discussion short and concise and they allow me to conduct business in a place that is convenient for me. The problem with online discussion, however, is that talking via online chat takes much longer than speaking in person. While a personal conversation would take about 5 minutes, online it takes about twice that time since we need to type instead of speak and we lack the visual communication that occurs in face-to-face meetings.
I am satisfied with the way we went about this project. I think we have almost completed our project. I think after we look over everything it should should be good to go. This project has been so convenient and I think in the future that this should be used in all classes that are involved in similar projects.
So, we found it extremely difficult to find times we could meet online, as we all have very different (but very busy) schedules. We exchanged many, many emails back and forth until we finally managed to meet on Thursday before it was due. I don't know. I feel like in-person meetings are easier. I don't know why I feel like that, really, but I do. I guess I'm just not clear on the advantage of an online group writing project as opposed to a regular group writing project. I'm not sure it's better. I think it might just be more frustrating... we had a series of technical issues even seeing the document Erin created. I think it would be better, in future, to just have group writing in person. It prevents procrastination and technical problems, and it's just generally easier.
This project was fine. We all looked over the parts and did some correcting. I don’t think there is any advantage to writing things together. I think it is better to write separately and then just do peer correcting. It has the same effect, but you don’t have to worry about coordinating schedules and having to rely on other people for your grade. Perhaps in the future, students could correct each others papers and your corrections could be part of your grade? I think this would be better and more individual and everyone gets a chance to write and correct instead of putting it on just one or two people.
Personally I find group projects a mixed bag to begin with but adding the no in person contact can make an effort even more dubious. That being said, this project was not met with much issue and went well each member making a separate effort.
If this projects comes into regular use I recommend allowing at least 20 minutes in class for groups to set down what everyone is doing because these details are often not resolved when contacting by email.
Well it's the day it is due and we're still missing input from one person unless he is no longer in the group. Trying to add pictures really makes me hate technology.
Everything is posted in google docs, and after editing and revising, everything turned out alright! Thank goodness google docs was there to save the day :D Could not have improved my German comprehension and technical abilities without this stimulating projekt.
We're still waiting on contribution from one more member. This project has given me a lot of anxiety because it hasn't gotten completed in as timely of a manner and I would like. While Google Docs was very easy to use, overall communication was still difficult.
After reading through my group member's sections I was able to come up with a sensible last segment to our character's chronological, yet unrelated diary entries.
Our group decided to work together and each write a 50-100 word section of the overarching assignment. Then, to ensure that we were not simply stapling unrelated sections together, we combined our "blog-entries" and performed a peer editing process.
Tonight our group decided that we will be presenting our project to the class. It worked out nice that our project was in the form of a dialogue, so we can act it out. Google Docs was a nice and easy way for each of us to write our own scripts and then combine them.
I think my group worked well together on this project. We did not have any difficulties. I really like using Google Docs for group projects. It allows you to work on the project whenever and wherever. I think this project went very well for my group.
Ich hab total vergessen, noch ein ander Kommentar zu machen. Mir war dieses Projekt nicht schwierig, weil es so kurz war. Ich meine, dass eines lange Projekt viel mehr compliziert sein wurde.
this project isn't really that hard, just have to organize things and get things rolling. We have talked about doing Berlin and writing a letter. Opened a Google doc and starting to write.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how to get umlauts in google docs? they have special characters but German isn't an option
ReplyDeletetry it with using of the old-fashioned "alt" keys:
ReplyDeleteü = alt0252 (hold down alt key and punch in the numbers)
ö = alt0246
ä = alt0228
ß = alt0223
Our group started our project today. We've got the Google Doc set up and a bit of the writing started. Our city is Berlin and we're writing a sort of daily diary entry/blog post for during our "trip". I'm a little concerned about the communication process.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Danielle, I know that to type umlauts on a Mac (I don't know what type of computer you have), you hold down the alt-option key and hit "u". Then you lift up from both keys and then type the letter you want the umlauts over.
Ok thanks Laura. I ended up just typing it in a regular word document and just copied the text over. The umlauts copied with it so that seemed to work. Another extra step, but thanks!
DeleteMy group is also using Google Doc. We plan on posting pictures of places to see in Frankfurt and then commenting/describing the different attractions. We will use the comments to formulate a story about someone's experience visiting Frankfurt. Thanks for the tips on getting umlauts! Very helpful.
ReplyDeleteAlso, to type "ß" on a Mac, hold down the alt-option key and press the letter "s". I forgot to include that in my last post.
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DeleteMy group is working on creating an outline using google docs and then we plan on writing our story. We plan on doing a hang over style piece about waking up in Berlin and not remembering what happened the night before. I am worried that there might be some confusion in my group about how to use the google doc but hopefully it all gets figured out.
ReplyDeleteMy group is using google docs. Google makes me f#*&%$@ angry! It's not intuitive,and I've had nothing but problems trying to work with google docs. How does this help my German comprehension? I've certainly learned several new adjectives when explaining the quality of google docs, but I don't see how this makes me a better linguist.
ReplyDeleteIt was kind of confusing to get used at first since I've never used google docs/gmail/ anything of the sort but it got fairly easy pretty fast. We uploaded the first destination to visit in Salzburg and read over the document. We've decided to break up the project into 3 parts, each one visiting a new destination in salzburg so we'll meet again online sunday afternoon.
ReplyDeleteMy group is breaking up the writing project into parts. We are each writing a postcard to someone from Dresden. This is helpful because we only have to worry about writing our own section and then we will met again to read over and correct the other peoples.
ReplyDeleteOur group chose Berlin. Danielle already wrote the first part, and Alex and I are going to build off of that. For those who are interested, it is possible to install the US-International keyboard (not sure about mac) which allows you to switch between German and English keyboard layouts. I find it convenient since we do a fair amount of writing in this class and it can be inconvenient to always be hunting for ß and umlauts.
ReplyDeleteMy group has started to write on Google Docs. We are doing Frankfurt and are each writing a part about something a person sees in Frankfurt. Our project is going well as of now. We are also adding pictures.
ReplyDeleteLooking for ideas for pictures...are people who are just writing a story including another separate page of pictures that just go along with the story, like a collage?? Just looking for ideas.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how to upload pictures onto Google Docs? I haven't experimented around with it too much but if someone knew, that'd be a LOT of help!
ReplyDeleteTry using Google Presentation - that allows you to upload pictures and videos - and insert text.
DeleteI was able to figure it out on Google Docs with the help of my group. Thanks for the suggestion though!
DeleteOur group just met again for the second time and we have 2/3 of it written. I have the next paragraph and when we edit that we'll format it, add photos, and it should be good to go. Everything's going good.
ReplyDeleteI wrote my piece for my group yesterday. It was pretty easy to use the google docs, and the way we are doing it lets people work independently. It'll be interesting to see how we take our individual entries and make it into a finished product.
ReplyDeleteToday, Katie, Justin, and I met on Skype to work on our paper. It went very well and now we are done. It was hard for us to find a time to meet to do the project but once we started working it only took about an hour.
ReplyDeleteToday, Katie, Megan and I went on Skype to work on our paper. This went very well, and we ended up finishing it after a couple of hours. One of the only problems that we encountered was finding out when to meet, and I had some issues with my computer. Other than this our meeting went very well, and we got everything finished in a timely manner.
ReplyDeleteToday our group (Megan, Justin and I) met via Skype to work on our project. It worked surprisingly well, I just wish we would have had the ability to all see each other instead of just verbally communicating on the phone. Overall the process was a lot easier then I expected. It was really convenient that on Google docs, you could see where everyone's cursor was.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I need to play a bigger part in the group. All I've done is add pictures to our document so I'm going to start pulling my weight because it is not fair for the rest of the members of my group. We still have time, and I think we are going to be fine. I Google Docs is so convenient I want to set something similar up for my group project in my Filipino class.
ReplyDeleteWe're just about finished with our project. I'm a little bit concerned about some of the content of our project. While it's very creative, I'm not sure if it stays completely on the prompt. At least we've got today to make some adjustments.
ReplyDeleteOur project is close to completion. Google Docs was simple to use and this online project allowed each group member to contribute at his or her own convenience. In the past, I have found it very difficult to meet outside of class with groups due to conflicting schedules. Overall, I am happy with each group member's contribution to the project. After some proofreading, our group should be finished with the schreibprojekt.
ReplyDeleteWe just finished our first meeting. After initial problems starting the conversation (to get into a group chat took about 15 minutes worth of fumbling), the conversation, planning, and correcting went very well. We discussed grammar issues with the text thus far, and next steps for the project.
ReplyDeleteAfter finishing our second meeting, we are set to complete our project. The online meetings have the benefit of keeping discussion short and concise and they allow me to conduct business in a place that is convenient for me. The problem with online discussion, however, is that talking via online chat takes much longer than speaking in person. While a personal conversation would take about 5 minutes, online it takes about twice that time since we need to type instead of speak and we lack the visual communication that occurs in face-to-face meetings.
ReplyDeleteI am satisfied with the way we went about this project. I think we have almost completed our project. I think after we look over everything it should should be good to go. This project has been so convenient and I think in the future that this should be used in all classes that are involved in similar projects.
ReplyDeleteSo, we found it extremely difficult to find times we could meet online, as we all have very different (but very busy) schedules. We exchanged many, many emails back and forth until we finally managed to meet on Thursday before it was due. I don't know. I feel like in-person meetings are easier. I don't know why I feel like that, really, but I do. I guess I'm just not clear on the advantage of an online group writing project as opposed to a regular group writing project. I'm not sure it's better. I think it might just be more frustrating... we had a series of technical issues even seeing the document Erin created. I think it would be better, in future, to just have group writing in person. It prevents procrastination and technical problems, and it's just generally easier.
ReplyDeleteThis project was fine. We all looked over the parts and did some correcting. I don’t think there is any advantage to writing things together. I think it is better to write separately and then just do peer correcting. It has the same effect, but you don’t have to worry about coordinating schedules and having to rely on other people for your grade. Perhaps in the future, students could correct each others papers and your corrections could be part of your grade? I think this would be better and more individual and everyone gets a chance to write and correct instead of putting it on just one or two people.
ReplyDeletePersonally I find group projects a mixed bag to begin with but adding the no in person contact can make an effort even more dubious. That being said, this project was not met with much issue and went well each member making a separate effort.
ReplyDeleteIf this projects comes into regular use I recommend allowing at least 20 minutes in class for groups to set down what everyone is doing because these details are often not resolved when contacting by email.
ReplyDeleteI did have a small bit of trouble when I tried to load pictures. Still haven't figured out how.
ReplyDeleteWell it's the day it is due and we're still missing input from one person unless he is no longer in the group. Trying to add pictures really makes me hate technology.
ReplyDeleteEverything is posted in google docs, and after editing and revising, everything turned out alright! Thank goodness google docs was there to save the day :D Could not have improved my German comprehension and technical abilities without this stimulating projekt.
ReplyDeleteWe're still waiting on contribution from one more member. This project has given me a lot of anxiety because it hasn't gotten completed in as timely of a manner and I would like. While Google Docs was very easy to use, overall communication was still difficult.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through my group member's sections I was able to come up with a sensible last segment to our character's chronological, yet unrelated diary entries.
ReplyDeleteOur group decided to work together and each write a 50-100 word section of the overarching assignment. Then, to ensure that we were not simply stapling unrelated sections together, we combined our "blog-entries" and performed a peer editing process.
ReplyDeleteTonight our group decided that we will be presenting our project to the class. It worked out nice that our project was in the form of a dialogue, so we can act it out. Google Docs was a nice and easy way for each of us to write our own scripts and then combine them.
ReplyDeleteI think my group worked well together on this project. We did not have any difficulties. I really like using Google Docs for group projects. It allows you to work on the project whenever and wherever. I think this project went very well for my group.
ReplyDeleteIch hab total vergessen, noch ein ander Kommentar zu machen. Mir war dieses Projekt nicht schwierig, weil es so kurz war. Ich meine, dass eines lange Projekt viel mehr compliziert sein wurde.
ReplyDelete