EDUC 630 my own collaboration experience

Reflect on your own ability to collaborate in asynchronous and synchronous online environments for learning or for professional contexts.

I have had a lot of experience in the past week collaborating with colleagues on using Google Docs to record attendance in our online teaching sessions.  Last Friday, our administration shared their decision about attendance procedures.  When they announced we would be using the Google Docs forms to have students submit attendance,  some of my co-workers were OK, but others were very concerned.  Please understand that this had been discussed at a face to face staff meeting and all teachers had the opportunity to submit anonymous feedback on paper.  One teacher typed in chat to aske for someone to assist her. I responded to her that we could work together in my online room.  As e were making plans, other teachers were panicking, too.  Admin noticed our plans to collaborate and suggested any who wanted to join meet with us at 11am that day in my room.  
I hurried to set up a link for a session and shared with teachers.  Then, I explored Google Docs to refresh my memory.  We had 14 people show for the session!  I started from scratch, even demonstrating how to set up an account quckly.  We went through how to set up a form, email the link to yourself, view the spreadsheet, and so forth.  While in session, an email popped up that a teacher was in a conference with a family and wanted to have the recording link.  Oh, my!  A recording!  I shared this with the group and offered to walk through the set up again with those who wanted to stay as some were still confused.  We started from scratch again, with some teachers needing to leave.  Later, I was able to send out the link for the recording.  That was synchronous collaboration.  We shared ideas for how this would be helpful versus the old method and ways to improve or adjust to fit our needs.
Today, I assist a teacher with finding her form link to share with students during her teaching session this morning.  She shared that some other teachers were unable to remember how to get the link.  So, off and on today and tonight, I typed up a Word document that I emailed out to co-workers with various instruction on how to edit the form, find the form link, export the spreadsheet, etc.  I asked them to let me know of any other instructions we need to include.  We communicate and collaborate through email frequently.  I suppose I could have added the Google Docs instructions to Google Docs and allowed them to edit the information.  I'm not sure some of us are ready for that now.  But I anticipate the day when we will be there shall come soon!