Leadership Part A - Brainstorm Session

This past Monday, I participated in my groups first brainstorm session. Since we were all fairly familiar with Adobe Connect, we decided to try it out for ourselves.

For me, the great thing about web conferencing is the ability for everyone to communicate at the same time. It was wonderful to be able to talk together about where our project should go. We were able to ask questions and come to an agreement together. For example, we were able to answer one question in four minutes that we had been emailing about for four days. The ease of communcation is so helpful when working with people from all over the state or country. Another advantage is accessibility. For example, during our conference, I was at a coffee shop. All I needed was the link and a computer.

My web conferencing experience was interesting to say the least. We constantly struggled with mic delay and an echo. We were able to get rid of the echo at times but there was always a delay. Another sound issue was not recognizing voices. I am working with three other women I have never met. Because of that, it was a challenge at times to identify voices. To help deal with theses issues, we brought out our Google Doc and used the doc to help us communicate. We were also able to track who was talking by writing in different colors. Danielle put the Google Doc on the screen and that was helpful to an extent, but eventually we all wanted to edit the document. The Google Doc helped us to communicate faster and more efficiently.

Honestly, my experience was not great. While it was great to have the opportunity to talk things out, it was a challenge to do so. As mentioned earlier, sound was a major problem for us. I am sure that learning more about the system will help this to not be a problem next time. We may even try out Skype to help us recognize voices.

Check out our brainstorm session!