ED-279 Task_ 3- Reflection"

1.   Share the web address url of your groups ScreenR presentation.

         http://www.screenr.com/hIw7


2.  Reflect on your contributions and how you contributed to making your group a success?

   My contributions for my group was ongoing, the fact of working in groups "no matter what" problems will occur and for me is over-looking the matter and continuing to get the assignment done. However, I enjoyed this class emensly and learned a lot through the use of technology..... I remember having to meet with my instructor because having to get all "freak-out" about where to begin within this course, but I am so thankful for the help, support, and peer-feedback, have kept my group grounded in completing our assignments. Could have not done it alone, I depended on my group and they came through.... Mahalo, to Team Tech-Know, most of all "biggest Mahalo" instructor Brent, for your response and encouraging words.... =o)

" Task_3-6 Reflection"

Why is it important to use teams in PBL?

Working in a group is helpful toward workload assignments. As a group you can evenly share the assignments whereas, everyone is able to share different resources, feed-backs, that relates to problem-base learning and more so having a topic such as this, is filled with many informational resources. 

What are some of the problems you see in student-teams:

Lack of communications, sharing ongoing responsibilities through peer-feed back, not participating with full-potential, laziness, missing in action, excuses.

What strategies can you use to manage conflict in student teams:

Having to be supportive, engaged through contacting group-members by sending out e-mails, posting through forums, staying focus on the postive instead of negativity.

Did the group have any questions or problems this week:

Questions were ongoing as well as problems, but we tend to solve the problems and questions as we continue to work in unity. realizing what is the importance of leardership, peer-sharings, forum-feed backs, continues to help each and everyone within our group to over-look the obsticles and complete given assignments. 

"Task_3-5 Reflection" Week (14) and (15)

Group #1   Team Tech-Know

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?
 I have posted (deliverable a,b) links, whereas my group was able to follow the given assignment for this week.
  a. debrief questions, website resources, assignment explanation. (Thomas / Jasmine)
  b. rubric, assessments and feed-back. (Charez / Sherri-Ann) 

2.    What role did you play on your team this week?

I was this weeks facilitator, therefore sending e-mails, assignment information, added resources was evenly shared among the group-members.
(Over-All View for Google-Document) (Melonie Asinsin)

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?
e-mails are my on-going contact with my group, I tend to (joke) with them in the e-mail and try to keep everyone grounded in what is expected out of all of us as a group.

4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week

No, because I kept them inform through (added-resources) in which help them to understand what their role-play is and pair-them up together, whereas they could help each other. 

Week #13 "Task_3-4 Reflection"

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?
       My contribution to my group, finding information that reflects using (authentic-assessments) within classroom settings. How teachers would apply such task, the different techniques used, what would benefit students learning-skills, and the outcome of students learning. Therefore, posting video's from (youtube) and also finding a website page how schools incorporates such assessments.

2.    What role did you play on your team this week?
My role-play, was to critique groups interaction, whereas what information were contributed, how it reflects our (google-doc) and the resources of reading comprehension, learning-skills, and problem-solving within the classroom.

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?
I would send them e-mails to start their day on the positive-side, such as asking how they are doing? joking around, and just to keep them focus on what needs to be done during the week.

4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?

Many questions, mixed understandings about what to do, where to start, who is doing what? I would intervene in sending the link for the week assignments, try to break-it down whereas they could understand, but still keeping everyone on the same page. again, group interaction will always have its problem, is how each individual will learn how to work with each other and more so to continue to be supportive of each other. I tend to be the (NT) negotiator the in between of people contact is something I think is needed when working in groups project.  

Week #12 "Task_3.3 Reflection"

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?

I contributed video and websites that reflected the use of technology within classroom settings.


2.    What role did you play on your team this week?

My role this week was just to find informative websites, video's, contacted (peers) through e-mail, updating them in Current Events, helping group members to keep focus on assignment task.

3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?

I try to continue sending e-mails, in which will motivate their thoughts and help them to keep going. although, some of my group members seem to be facing challenges, I feel as a group we need to be there for each other.


4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week

Yes, I guess we finish our (google-doc) ahead of time, having to contribute to the document itself some of my group members tend to get confuse following what is assigned for the week task. However, I try to support them by sending the assignment task (link) whereas they are able to (click) and follow the directions. I feel the importance of doing these project is to keep group members inform, help them in every which way that I can and more so, not to get (angry) in what I do. I see why this project is so important, having to be going into teaching, I will encounter these problems in a "real classroom settings"..... and as a teacher there are no boundary toward helping your students who is in distress!

Week (11) Current Event Topic

Global Teachers - The World is Flat

By Larry Icabandi Nabiong

                 Skills to mastering grammar means doing loads of exploring, practicing and answering exercises in a website, others are free, some are paid. It is up to the creative and resourceful learner to take advantage of this learning programs and emerge more knowledgeable and skillful, more competent in grammar, more confident in their speaking and writing endeavors

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7509673

    Here is a teacher who teaches in the Philippines, his philosophy toward technology is bringing the fun into studying, having students engaged with much expectations in what they learn through having access to the internet connection. In additional, having to be a English teacher the essential of using the internet provides his students with information that they use toward their classroom assignments. However, his point of view having to "surf" different websites throughout the internet can display explicit images, and vulgar context that having to monitor students would be the best results. Nonetheless, in his own opinion the helpful resources whereas, students are able to do researches that helps them within their grammar, writing-skills, cognitive-thinking skill, motivating them into the 21st century, just by a "click" of the finger, as he put it in his own words.

Week (11) Task _ 3-2 Reflection

Team-Tech Know

1. What roles did the members of you team have this week?

(Jasmine)- was in charge of the scenario
(Cherez / Sherri-Ann) - Internet Skills
(Thomas)- Parent Letter in (Google-doc)
(Melonie)-(SLO) Read Out-Loud

2. Given your role in the group this week, how did you contribute to group?

This week, I was the (facilitator) and contributed to the (SLO) readings.

3. What worked well this week?

My group contributed to work assignment and therefore I have no complaints.

4. What will you do differently next time?

Its really hard to make a prediction, but I will continue to help and support my group in the best way possible.