In today’s class (March 5, 2020), we discussed essentially what it is to do collaborative work. Professor Vantaggiato thoroughly explained how via the platform Google Drive we would be able to create a document that we would then be allowed to share with our classmates. Google Drive is an incredibly useful tool that will be used continuously in the INF 103 course. The documents that are shared are more specifically done in Google Docs (documents). The shared document for the class was titled “Crowdsourcing INF103 SEC.3”. 

The assignment that we had for today’s class began with the professor creating a new blank document. He then went to the top right corner and pressed the blue button that says “share”, then placed everyone in the class’ email address. Once this was done everyone got the email to access the document. What we as students had to do was to place three links for each of the categories: Youtube channels, Instagram, books, and movies. For the books, we learned how to use GoodReads, the world’s largest community of book lovers where they upload every type of book that there is world known, in order to copy and paste the link. For the movie category we used IMBd.com, a well known platform with a large amount of movie data that offers trailers, information on directors and movie sinopsis. 

Throughout the rest of the class, each student had their space in the document and started pasting such links in the document and gave a brief description of the links we chose depending on the category. In this collaborative work, we learned to work as a group to edit one document. The professor was nice of him to give the rest of his class time in order for us to do the work. Although it seemed a bit challenging at times having to manage a document being edited by many classmates, we accomplished the task and finished in no time. If students didn’t get the opportunity to finish the work in class, they may continue during the weekend via email/google docs. Later in the next upcoming class, we will review the work that has been accomplished. 

Here we embed a video on how to Share Documents in Google Drive

Summary completed by Frances Cabán and Shaelys Muñiz.