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Octopus categories:

    • Decision
This category is used to guarantee that there will be taken decisions during the project period, and that the decisions will lead to the aim of the project.
Only this kind of decisions can start a new project and it is a instrumental and goal-oriented comment
    • Process
This category concerns the process as the process itself is important when the focus is knowledge building in a collaborative connection. The comments are intended as meta-comments the work and working processes in the group
    • Efficiency
All kinds of comments that can make the work more efficient are to be placed in this category. All kinds of ideas that might result in more efficient project work are relevant.
    • Information
This category will be used whenever there are comments concerning information regardless of the comments being related to information and ressources that already exist in the group or it is related to needed information or ressource persons.
    • Idea and creativity
Creative thinking and new ideas will be placed under this label. It is emphasised that the ideas don’t need to be down on earth as fanciful ideas often inspire other in the group to create even better ideas and in the end all these ideas are important for the project work.
    • Thoughts
This category is to be used when students create new thoughts which they do not categorize as idea yet or it might be comments to things already in the platform – the comments may be critical and/or supporting existing things.
    • Emotions
This is a very important category, as I stimulate my students to put words on their emotions and write in fle3. I think it is very important that feelings are represented in the dialogue – exactly in the same way as students express their feelings in a group work when they work synchronously around a table. I think that the knowledge building will be even more successful when emotions are included.
    • Risk
This category is used when students find, that comments already in the database need to be reconsidered or they think that this and this may be wrong – it is a critical comment that other groupmembers need to take in to consideration.