Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit. Teampedia is designed for trainers, teachers, managers and anyone who helps facilitate teamwork, meetings, workshops conferences, and group work.
Teampedia presents to be a site where individuals from various backgrounds can visit to seek out different activities or information on developing teams through collaboration, team activities, and ice-breakers. There is no cost for accessing the variety of shared activities.
Type of Material:
Workshop and Training Material
Teampedia is identified as a Reference Material. This site is developed as an encyclopedia of team building activities. There are no specific instructional objectives on how to apply the sources and ideas shared to develop team and varying levels of collaboration.
Recommended Uses:
team, individual, groups
Technical Requirements:
Basic web browser needed; viewed in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and did not experience any difficulties in viewing the content.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Learning goals would relate to learning new activities to incorporate and build teams or implement activities for various purposes.
Target Student Population:
This site is designed for group leaders, trainers, teachers, managers, directors, counselors, youth groups, camps, task forces; anyone wanting to enhance collaboration and creativity would benefit. Additionally, educational groups within Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional, Grade School would benefit.
Trainers, professional coaches, faculty, organizational psychologists, team leaders. Various group sizesVarious age ranges
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Basic computer skill uses and ability to navigate through a site to seek out information and apply. The activities do not require prerequisites as they are developed with instructions to implement.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Straight forward
Simplistic to navigate
Easy to understand and apply to a variety of situations across contextual factors. Various shared links to activities provide opportunity for users to share feedback and further develop with intent to improve
Concerns:
Not all links to activities provide opportunity for feedback or editing opportunities.
The information shared does not present to be supported with research to demonstrate how and why such activities are worthy to implement for team building.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The possible effectiveness of the activities shared provide opportunity for team development, are great ways to break the ice among groups, enhance collaboration, provide trainers a variation of sources to relate to and implement during opening sessions.
Opportunity to share own activities Simple and basic can be a good thing.
Concerns:
Concerns relate to lack of peer reviewed literature to support the materials shared and illustrate connection for team development.
Effectiveness or outcomes are not shared for activities.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Opportunity to share feedback on some activities
Links work – effective
Material shared develops interactive environments It is self-contained, instructions are not necessary to navigate the site
Creative Commons:
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