Meeting Frustration

Nancy and I met today online for our meeting for the LES collaboration. Nancy was there at 4:00, as we had planned, and I arrived a bit late due to a traffic accident that had traffic stopped both ways for a while. By 4:35, neither of the other two group members had shown up and neither had posted their schedules on the discussion board, as we had discussed in our last meeting, so Nancy and I decided to leave the chat room as she had class and I have another meeting tonight. I posted my schedule and answered some of Nancy's questions about hers, but we have seen very little interaction from the others on the discussion board during the week and feel as if this project is an aside or afterthought for them, rather than a focus. They seem to be logging in before they get to class and have not been very good about letting us know if they're going to be late. I hope that we can work through this, and that they are not equally frustrated with us or our actions. I wonder if some of the issue is that they do not feel comfortable with the technology and are putting off logging in until they are there to do it with a community.

I am going to post a preliminary schedule on the discussion board tomorrow to help Nancy get a better idea of what a master schedule can look like, since she's not had much experience in scheduling since she has not been responsible for that in student teaching or internship experiences. I hope to see some interaction from the others on the discussion board or via email.

Where do we go from here? I wonder if other groups are feeling a similar frustration.