My group is creating a professional development tutorial about the technology tool "watchknowlearn.org" Our audience is for K-12 teachers who wish to flip their classroom, or for those who have already done so. Watchknowlearn.org is a valuable tool that serves as a directory that hosts hundreds of thousands of educational videos. Educators share, review, approve, and assign these teacher generated videos using a wiki framework and philosophy. Watchknowlearn.org covers all topics in primary and secondary education. Best of all, this tool is available for free and is available to students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We originally met using Google Hangouts. This was a very fun meeting and our conversations seemed to flow. There was no connection delay, and it was very easy to hold a conversation. Perhaps we had too much fun and overlooked some of the requirements that needed to be discussed! With that said, we decided to meet for a second time to record our meeting and to discuss our project in more detail. We chose to use Adobe Connect and I found it to be very accommodating from a teacher's point of view. I really liked that I could go into the meeting room before and set it up, much like I would a classroom. I explored the pods, and liked using polls to generate peer feedback. I also like putting up the Agenda. Adobe Connect was a more formal setting, and our conversations did not flow as well. There was some issues with audio and background noise. But all in all, I was really impressed with Adobe Connect because of the format, available tools, ability to record, and how well it works in an online educational setting.
To view our video conference visit this link: http://meet30409137.
In our Angel communication folder we discussed various presentation tools. We considered using Jing, Slideshare, Screencast, etc. During our Adobe Connect meeting, we chose to use Jing by voting on a poll pod. For our mind map/storyboard we choose Popplet. Popplet is a great online mind mapping resource and works really well for online collaboration. We also chose to use Google Doc to write up our script for our presentation of WatchKnowLearn.org. Each group member has an assigned area of WatchKnowLearn.org to report on. The website is broken up into essentially seven parts: Overview, Common Core, Classrooms, Editors Tools, Adding Video, Reviews/Approval/Assignments, and Vision. Each of use will be reading the script for our assigned areas of the project. We have also created a timeline to meet the various deadlines of the assignment. See below.
11/12 Determine assigned roles & hold second video conference;
11/13 Begin adding content to Popplet and our script to Google Doc;
11/17 Submit all course assignments due on this day;
11/20 Finish adding content to Popplet and to the script; Hold third video conference;
11/21 Edit/Comment to script and Popplet;
11/24 Submit all course assignments due on this day;
12/1 Rough draft due of final Group Leadership Project;
12/3 Final edits due;
12/4 Group Leadership Project due.
Well, there certainly was some productive work going on. Your group managed to cover a great deal of territory in a short period of time. Way to go.
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