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Post University uses a group process in parts of the Master’s of Education program and this is reflected in the Wiki site. The group process is an interaction of parts of the course taken and a reflection of the process used to help each student apply knowledge in a viewed format.

In the Digitally Mediated Teaching and Learning module known as EDU_520_30 students were grouped in three to four interactive and collaborative settings using a Wiki site composed of an introduction, three pages of their digital mediated teaching and learning areas and reference page.

The process was interesting and our group was identified as: EDU520JUNEGRP2 as the title. The software was a totally new learning module to most students with challenges and our site and the areas of creation included our Home Page, Digital Fluency Page, Digital Access Page, Digital Security and Privacy, Discussion Page and a Reference Page.

In order to have all students on the same understanding of what was to be created, each student had to be assigned as specific task, one for Content Locator- Hannah, a second for Content Locator – Naomi, another for Site Designer and Organizer – Andrew and another for Multimedia and Graphics Designer – Crystol.

Some students seemed to have their data very quickly and posted either in digital video format and others posted in written format. We communicated daily and that part went smoothly. The issues of picture posting was done well except one student either did not choose to post or chose not to. The videos were created for each category and there seemed to be some confusion as to how many videos should be done for each page. This was a slight weakness of the project and there seemed to be confusion as to why some students posted and others posted then others posted nothing.

As sight designer, I tried to get the group to keep up each week through our discussion forum but it was generic and I believe people feared to express or excepted what was presented was fine.

The information presented was then compared to the larger class group and was commented on in that forum and positive responses seemed to be that were doing fairly well. The Project was informative and self-directed with students needing communication daily. This was slightly challenging as some people are better communicators then others but all in all was very useful and a good exercise.