Reflection #5

1. Discussion on the items that should be considered before starting a project with students.

• Community resources 
• Are the technologies we are about to use new to us and/or my students?
• Schedule appointments with experts if so.
• Always use technology coordinators and media specialists in your district to your advantage.

2. Discussion on teachers' and students' management needs.

Teachers:

• Tools for communicating with students and others about the project.
• Tools for making milestones ane vents visible and for notifying students when changes occur.
• Methods for getting resources to students.
• Systems for managing work products
• Structures that support a productive learning environment in which teams and individuals are engaged of learning tasks at the same time.
• Assessment tools and strategies
• productive learning
• accomplishing goals
• asses and load balance between teammates
• just-in-time feedback

Students:

• Systems and tools that help manage time and flow of work.
• Systems that help students manage materials and control work drafts.
• Collaboration tools
• Methods for seeking assistance
• Ways to get and use feedback, self-reflection, team input, and teacher advice.
• Ways to work interactively and to see ow parts add up to the whole.

3. Discussion on some of the technology applications that should be considered for use in a project.

• Blogs: structure and flow delivery system, keep publishing control in your hands, and a communicating tool.
• Wiki: shareable content, collaboration tools, web links, developing information that flows from many to many.
• Drupal: configurable, forums and surveys, open-sourced system.

4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

With our project, we will be using a lot of computer based technologies that are in need of many specialists help. We will be using the districts specialists to our advantage! Team planning is very important because we are going to be writing separate lesson plans yet using it for a collaboration unit.