Saturday, August 13, 2011

Group Leadership Project CEP 812

Here is our group leadership project for CEP 812. Our group choose to focus our professional development tutorial on Google Forms and how they can be used in an educational setting. Enjoy!

For our tutorial, our group choose to use Google documents to do the creation portion of our presentation and our script. We divided the project amongst our group giving each group member a specific task to complete. I was in charge of creating the How to section of the presentation. I also converted each group members slides into one cohesive format using PowerPoint. For the final presentation, we choose to use SlideShare to deliver the presentation. SlideShare allowed us to take our presentation and merge it with the audio file we created to walk viewers through the tutorial. It allows for an easy integration of the two components and is very user friendly.

During the development process, I was able to continually work on listening to other's ideas and look at  things from different angles. Every group member brings something unique to the group and it is important to take feedback and critique from others in order to create a final product that puts the topic in the best light for viewers.

I don't know if I would approach the task in a different manner. For many group projects, I have always used the method of divide and conquer. Splitting the tasks amongst group members and integrating all the parts in the end has always seemed to work for me. I also like the idea of collaboration at the end, giving and receiving feedback on each group members contribution and tweaking the final product as a group. I think I would try to rely less on e-mail and use Google Docs and Skype as the main means of communication on the final product. The e-mail worked well, however, at times your e-mail inbox was flooded with small e-mails related to the project. Overall, I think our group did a great job collaborating and creating this tutorial to teach educators how to use Google Forms in their classroom in many different contexts.

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