EDUC3325 - Week Thirteen Reflections

Well, we are now definitely on the "home stretch". The students are working on their final assignment - "teaching with technology" group workshop. They are all currently putting their workshop outlines together using the BOPPPS model that we learned at the beginning of the course. Next Monday I will be sitting down with each of the groups to review their outlines - to make sure that they are on "track" for an interactive versus a presentation focused workshop.

We also debriefed about the process of working in groups and low and behold - email is for olde people like me. The current way for members of a group to "stay connected" is through cell phone and text messages :)

Here is a summary of our debrief:
a) Importance of creating a project outline and/or charter
- Defining the goals for your workshop
- Assigning roles, responsibilities and tasks
b) Importance of staying "connected" (clear lines of communication) throughout the process
- Using the group project areas in Blackboard to exchange files
- Using Email, cell phone and text messaging to stay connected (post everyone's cell phone number and text message ID in a word document that gets posted to the group area)
c) Importance of using class time to work on the project and identify individual tasks to be completed outside of class time
d) Importance of group size
-Groups smaller than 5 work best :)