The simplest way to communicate online is via email. If you don't already have an email address through your teaching program or your online provider (like AOL), you can establish a free email account at Yahoo or Hotmail.
Once everyone in your group has an email address, you can put all of the addresses together into an email group, which means that what you send to one member of your group goes to all members. Or you can just put each email address into the "sender info" box when you want to send something out.
You should first get to know each other online, exchange some information, talk about your classes, program, and adult learners, etc., and then:
- In order to utilize your time most efficiently, you will want to organize your thoughts and write out short paragraphs in answer to the discussion questions, such as those listed in Process #2.
- For Process #3, you will want to review your resource and then write up a brief piece about it to send to your fellow group members so that they can read and think about it.
- In Process #4, you could pass the list along to each other, one by one, with each person reviewing the list and adding another comment or criteria. The final person would be responsible for cleaning up the Evaluation List a bit and then sending it around to everyone else.
- You could use the same method for sharing information with Process #5 and creating a final Strategies/Activities List.
- The General Resources Chart for Process #6 would require a similar method to pull together information.