journal- communication tools

For our project, we have to collaborate with students from other classes, and even from another school. The students from the other school are from Farmington, which is too far away to actually have contact with these students. Therefore means of technology will be very imperative in the completion of this project. Luckily, we live in an age where there are many technological options available. One option would be writing letters, but that would be silly because there are quicker routes of communication. A few other quicker routes of communication that I can think of are e-mail, online chatting, Facebook, Twitter, text-messaging, and maybe even talking on the phone. Those options seem to be the easier, quicker, and more efficient choice over writing letters.

Online chatting is a good option of communication. For example "www.todaysmeet.com" could be used as a form of online chatting. It is an efficient way to communicate with others. It could definitely work as a way for all of us to have discussions together without actually physically being together. This could be a good source of communication, especially for the preliminaries of the project. After we have the big picture of the project figured out, we may need to use a form of communication that can help us be more detail oriented.

E-mail could be a huge help in the completion of this project. By using e-mail instead of some form of online chatting, we all have records of what the others said. That can be useful so we can go back and look to make sure we know what our assignment is, as well as being able to hold others to their duties. E-mail will probably be the most efficient way of communicating for this project. A problem may arise however, if some students don't check their email very often.

This is where Facebook and Twitter come in. We could use them to contact some of the students more readily than we would be able to contact them by email. In this case, social networking sites may actually come in handy, however, they may also be a distraction. It is probably not a good idea to mix school work with a social networking site. This could cause students to get distracted and not follow through on their project on schedule. Therefore, text-messaging or calling each other may also be useful.