Fifth Lab: Starting with the specialized team tasks

During last few weeks, you all have been doing same or similar tasks. Learning technologies, team assessment, Team Research etc. etc. But the real power of collaboration comes from each person doing some specialized tasks. Each team member specializes in one type of task and when we work together our joint efforts can produce much higher quality outcomes.

To start with in the Fifth Lab, each team is expected to come prepared with finalized Chapter Outline and assignment of one team member for each section of the outline. Team leaders should submit the online form for Chapter Outline well before arriving at the Lab session.

Assignment #16
Each team member will now create content for the section of the chapter that is allocated to him/her. Upto about 2 pages of content by each team member is quite adequate. You will get 45 minutes in the Lab to write these 2 pages of draft material for the section allocated to you. You should create a word document in your team's shared document folder. Your document should be shared with all your team members, so that they can review and make the necessary modifications to improve quality of your initial draft. This editing and refining these documents can continue through the week at your free time and place. Team Leader should decide if the document is ready to pass on to Author.

Assignment #17 for Authors
After all the section draft documents are received by Author, the control of the shared document is  transfered to the "Author" in the team. The Author will have the rights to edit the document, all other team members will only have "view" previledges. The authors will thoroughly edit the full chapter. Author will make all the necessary formatting changes, grammar and language corrections, improve readability etc. The Author will need to use full skills on Word Processing. Microsoft Word is recommended for use by the Authors. Follow the QA standards that will be released by the QA Team. Now you have a basic backbone of your product. 

Assignment #18A for Artists
Artists will identify the images and other graphics that will be required for the Chapter. We also need the design ideas for Book Cover. We need photographs of team members doing their group activities, which we can include in the book.


Assignment #18B for Other Team members
Now you clothe and add ornaments to your backbone. Create sections like "Learning Objectives", "References", "Diagrams", "Figures", "Illustrations", "Review Questions", "Bibliography" etc. etc. The content for all these add-ons will be created by team members and passed on to Authors to integrate it with the basic backbone of teh chapter.


Assignment #19 for Marketeers
While the rest of the team members are busy building the chapter, the Marketing people will refine the marketing messages that have been created for each category of prospects. Marketing people should create mail merge documents and mailing address lists to get ready for email campaign.

Assignment #20 for Team Leaders

Starting this week, Team Leaders will start submitting weekly project status report 

During this week, each specialist group will use some advanced features of technologies. Authors will require specialized Word Processing skills, Artists will use image processing, Marketeers will do mail merge etc. etc.