Back when we had the start-up event in Aston, we discussed having ‘critical friends’ for projects. The actual details of what projects actually needed was a bit blurry at that point, however we did manage to see some links with the SMILE project at Worcester.
Now that we are well underway with the project, we are starting to see the benefits of what the ‘critical friendship’ might bring to our project. Rather than critiquing content, we actually feel that just by having someone else to talk to (possibly about the difficulties in gaining copyright clearance and documenting RLOs) can be more effective for our project than anything else.
Enter Google Groups. Whilst we haven’t really played about with this to any great extent thus far, there are a number of obvious benefits that the platform brings e.g. secure environment for discussion, can post files, etc, etc.
We are now considering what benefits we might see from opening the group up to all of the RePRODUCE Projects. I wonder if JISC would be keen for something like this???
Tags: Critical Friend, google group, SMILE