Q Due Date: 08/16/2020 at 11:59pm Lab Objectives: To complete this activity, each team member should: 1. Practice working with a team to achieve a series of tasks. 2. Operate in an unfamiliar environment by working and communicating with team members. 3. Become more familiar with WebEx. 4. Get to know the other team members better and become more comfortable working with them. 5. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that each member can contribute to the team. 6. Become familiar with the requirements of writing a wiki with a team. Pre-lab: 1. Visit this website to learn more about WebEx https://itcs.ecu.edu/services/educational-technologies/webex-faculty-students/ 2. Using your group discussion board on Blackboard, determine with your group when you can meet as a COMPLETE group. Per your syllabus, all group members must be present at the same time to perform the lab activities. Expect that this lab (and most others) to take about two hours. 3. In your group discussion, designate one team member who will be responsible for setting up a meeting on WebEx. 4. Read through the rest of these instructions to familiarize yourself with the required tasks. 5. If you have not already done so, make sure you can open WebEx on your computer before your team’s session (for example, you may need to update Java). Lab Introduction: It happens in most organizations. Something changes: a new system, a new computer program, or a new operating method is introduced. The latest, greatest, and newest thing comes in and overtakes the old. It is supposed to make our work lives easier, simpler, faster, and more efficient. It is supposed to save time, money, and headache. But the roll out is inadequate. Your peers are not embracing the change. Everyone and everything seem to be fighting the change. The bottom line is that when change happens in an organization, everyone can either work together to be successful or work separately and fail. You are going to work as a team to learn how to use WebEx. You will need to use WebEx for some of your communication, in your future group activities, and in some of your other DE classes. Some of you may be familiar with WebEx or a program like it. If that is the case, then you can help your teammates learn how to use it. If everyone on the team is new to WebEx, don’t worry. The entire point of this activity is for you to figure it out together. It will take patience, communication, and time to work through the required tasks. It will take less time if you collaborate, work together, and learn this new software together. The second purpose of this exercise is to allow you to see each other in action as individuals and as a group and begin to identify strengths and weaknesses in the team as a whole and as individuals. Lab Activity 1. Have this page open on your computer as you join your WebEx session. 2. Meet for your WebEx session at your team’s decided-upon meeting time. 3. Designate some team roles. You will need: a. Someone to facilitate by leading everyone through the checklist on page 4 and tracking completion of each activity. b. Someone to take notes about the answers to the questions under items 5 and 6 below (you may want to split this job between two people). c. Everyone else acts as a contributor. 4. Each teammate must complete each of the following tasks: a. Use the microphone to greet your teammates and to make sure they can hear you. b. Use the chat function to communicate with each other. c. One team member (one whose role is “contributor”) must take a screenshot of all of you logged into WebEx working on this lab activity 5. Learn the following information about each of your teammates: a. Full names of each teammate b. Preferred nickname (or “I go by” name) of each teammate c. Birthdates (birth year is not necessary) d. What was the worst job you had growing up, and what was bad about it? e. If you could live anywhere on this planet, and take everything that you love with you, where would you choose to live? Tell the team about your choice. f. If you could have a dinner party with four people you admire the most, whom would you invite? g. What skill or talent do you bring to the team? 6. Through verbal discussion, determine: a. Who on the team has attended college the longest amount of time and the shortest amount of time (determined by total semesters attended)? b. Who has had the worst team experience? c. Who has the most and least work experience (total years)? Post-lab: 1. Create a Word document and include the following: a. A Screenshot of your WebEx meeting. b. Checklist of completed tasks (see page 4 for a template- please only post the checklist, not the entire directions document). 2. Using a shared document, answer the following questions: a. Answers to the questions in parts 5 in Lab Activity above: i. Full names of each teammate ii. Preferred nickname of each teammate iii. Birthdates (birth year is not necessary ?) iv. Each teammate’s worst job growing up (include what was bad about the job). v. Where each teammate would choose to live and why they would choose to live there. vi. Each teammate’s four admired dinner guests. vii. What skill or talent each team member brings to the team? b. Answers to the questions in part 6 in Lab Activity above: i. Who on the team has attended college the longest amount of time and the shortest amount of time (determined by total semesters attended)? ii. Who has had the worst team experience? iii. Who has the most and least total years of work experience? c. Answers to the following questions: i. What is the difference between a group and a team? ii. What did your team do well in this activity? What can you sustain as a team? iii. What can be done to improve performance, both individually and as a team? iv. If the team were to do the lab again, what would you all do differently? v. What were the advantages and disadvantages of completing this activity as a team? *Please note: Your team document should be “one voice”. Don’t just copy and paste the questions and the answer individually (sub-par example: Mary: I think…. John: I think….) This should be one united voice with all members editing the wiki, adding new ideas and thoughts, and expanding off one another. ? Team name: ___________________________________________________________________ Team member 1 Team member 2 Team member 3 Team member 4 Team member 5 Team member 6 Name Designate roles Microphone greeting Use chat function Share information with team (Lab Activity #5) Discussion (Lab Activity #6)