Chapter 5 Reflection

11. Items that should be considered before starting a project with students:

·      Available resources in your school.

·      Inventory the skills, tools, expertise, and community resources available to your students.

·      Gather materials your class will need for the specific project.

·      Make a newsletter for parents of a wish list and supplies. Send the newsletter home with the kids.

·      Do you need to reserve the library for Internet use?

22. Teachers’ management use:

·      Tools for communicating with students and others about the project.

·      Time management

·      Calendar with deadlines for upcoming milestones, share with students and parents.

·      Track students progress so students don’t fall behind

·      Online environment teachers can see students work progress, giving feedback, resolving confusion and answering students questions.

·      Ways for managing work products.

·      Ways to give students resources.

 Students’ management use:

·      Tools that help manage their time and flow of work.

·      Tools that help students manage materials and control work drafts

·      Collaboration tools

·      Ways to seek assistance

·      Ways to get feedback, advice and team input on their work

·      Ways to work together and see how parts make up the whole project.

33. There are technology applications that should be considered for use of a project, such as a wiki. A wiki is the simplest edited Web page, students can open, write and edit together from anywhere. The page can open to anyone or a limited group with a password, also keeping a history of the work. Blogs are also easily edited and helpful. Drupal and Textpatter are two popular blogging spaces.

44. There are many concepts in this chapter that relate to our project, Staying Healthy. The most important concepts I found were; available resources, teacher and student time management skills, teacher feedback, ways for students to ask for feedback, and working together as a team, seeing how parts of the project make a whole. Also we are using a blog to edit, send work, keep a history of our project and a place to receive feedback from other stuents.