Task 3 Teaching and learning technologies
Task 3 involves completing a group task where we create a small sharable educational resource on an educational topic of our choice.
For this task I selected to be in a group that included the following team members: Niya, Hayley and Amy
Our first contact with each other was through email when introducing ourselves. Once we had done this it took some time but we started to get down to business first deciding on a topic. Suggestions were made such as designing a lesson on a frogs cycle however later found out that this was already been done by another group. The second suggestion focussed on implementing an authentic learning lesson on algebra, but not all group members agreed on this topic. At this point all group members where feeling the pressure as time was short, but with Hayley's clear thinking a positive idea was suggested. This being the creation of a lesson plan that included the educational topic Health and Physical Education which involved lesson's aimed at student's improving their fitness ability, through designing their own exercise routine. I personally thought this was a wonderful suggestion as I loved PE when I was at school, it was a fun hands on real life activity that I just loved to be involved in. The topic worked well with the requirements for this task and this then created us to move to the next step 'job allocation' and as a group we decided that each member would work on a page each for our wiki. Before starting work on our separate page we also made the decision on the title of the pages. We all happily agreed to include a home, task, teacher, student and resources page. Then from this we selected the page that we wanted to work on and as a result Hayley selected home and task page, Niya selected teacher page, Amy selected resources page and I selected student page. We then all decided to go our separate ways to collect information and create our wiki page keeping in contact through Skype conference calls, email's and personal phone calls.