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What’s your best collaborative experience?
198 sats \ 11 comments \ @cryotosensei 9 Apr AskSN
As teachers, we have other duties, such as committee work. My committee is the Learning and Development Committee, so I’m supposed to drive novel initiatives.
The School Staff Developer roped me in to conduct a workshop on Student Learning Space (SLS), my nation’s e-learning portal. Besides me, she and another member would guide interested colleagues through the exciting features of SLS.
Being the anchor of the workshop, I designed a lesson that would allow the participants to explore the features authentically. What was nice was that the SSD made refinements to my lesson. Little things like formatting and using colours and boxing up information. I learnt a lot just by looking at her updated version.
My other colleague took many screencasts that enabled our colleagues to understand how to look at student responses holistically. I do not have the faintest idea on how to take a screencast, so watching his presentation style was intriguing for me.
Honestly, I find it a pain to work with people sometimes because you have to find ways to incorporate feedback and reach a middle ground and coordinate your schedules together. Having said that, I felt like I have learnt so much from this collaboration that I find the pain worthwhile.
How about you?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 9 Apr
Your partner in crime
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 9 Apr
ahahahah and what a crime , ahahaha :P
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48 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 9 Apr
Working on bigger FOSS projects - most of them unfunded or barely funded (i.e. grassroots initiatives) - I collaborate all day every day. Some projects have 2-3 collaborators, others have 10s-100s. Every contribution is a good one, because even when something is immediately rejected because it's malicious or just plain dumb, the response helps: boundaries are clarified.
To me the most important thing in collaboration is transparency (in software the only exception to this is vulnerabilities) implemented in the most inclusive way possible. Most often this means you just work together in public. No bilateral crap, no gossiping behind backs, and a clearly documented process.
That said, I still learn every day as new situations arise within projects and I try to ask questions when something is odd, and keep an open mind to whatever gets said. Even when things sound like drama, there's often a signal that can be turned into improvement.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 10 Apr
You must be a calm and Zen person. To be able to frame drama as opportunities for improvement 👍
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 10 Apr
Acquired that the hard way and over time, through many situations where my contribution and/or handling of the drama didn't help. I guess that it's also true that as we get older it gets easier to take a step back and not take everything personal. Once you're able to take the step back, the hardest part is finding the right balance between honey badger and empathy.
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 9 Apr
I can tell you my wost. There was one chinese teacher that didnt enjoy teaching english, and had to teach with me. Everytime she had to one up me and talk bad about me in chinese. Eventually she left, which gave me so much relief.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 10 Apr
That’s so unprofessional!
Did her students respect you though?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 10 Apr
The most pleasant collaborative experrience was financial for me... When I was a university student (in my penultimate year of study), I accidentally met the owner of the company that organized the graduation ceremony (selling togas, robes), and during the conversation he asked me to be "responsible" for my year in this process. I accepted, and it was very financially worthwhile. After that, I was involved in this "business" for years, convincing other years to work with this company. After 2-3 years, I was already active in other cities of the country. This partnership ended when the company owner became a senator and had to sell the company (due to a conflict of interest).
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