Group Meeting

(Sunday 28th April) This morning I thought I would get better prepared this time around for our second  formal group meeting.The brainstorming doc hadn't really worked for our group to get our ideas across to each other clearly. I also found that there was still some confusion when working with Google docs. Was it the current version of the document? One member ended up having two of the same document, but different versions. I am used to writing all my ideas down on paper in note form, but clearly this was not going to work for a group task. I decided I would use powerpoint to start brainstorming some ideas on the tasks content. I could then share this easily with the rest of my group members via email or post onto our group site. 

Screenshots:Powerpoint ideas.

The slides were to give an overview of what basic elements we needed to include for task 3. I found that by also reviewing the sample sites this gave me some ideas as to the content which we were required to include. I went through the UlRG guide and broke down the task into stages, simplified tasks. See Slide 2: What we need to have. I felt by doing this it gave us all something to start working with and was a conversation starter. By including the scope and sequence I also wanted to confirm we were all looking at the same content in the curriculum. 

For todays meeting I also set up some Agenda items in attempt for us to try and stay on topic as it is very easy for time to pass just chatting and not getting anything constructive done and any decisions being made at the end of it all.

April 28 at 12:58pm

SUNDAY 28th GROUP MEETING AGENDA: (please add if there is anything you would like to discuss) ps. hope you dont think im being bossy just thought this might help us maintain focus?

PLEASE ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS...

Think we need to focus on the idea and content first. 

TASK DESCRIPTION-More detailed description of what we want our task to be and include I think is the first step (also see Dani's comment on how we make it available to wider audience) What it is we are going to plan for? Overall goal of the students/teacher? 

-Once this is all agreed upon I am happy to make a start this week (Mon-Thurs) on drafting up some paragraphs of writing that can be used for our home page... and put forward to everyone on Thursday....? eg. Intro, group members, task description etc etc obviously with the exception of including the powerpoint prezi at this stage think this should be let to very last!

LESSON PLAN:

For Thursday : if everyone could get some ideas together to consider for lesson plan Ideas so that we can start on this. next...

In my opinion I believe that this meeting went well. We had managed to cover all the agenda items suggested and had decided on the content we each needed to gather.  

However, earlier on when first beginning the task some of my group had decided to allocate specific jobs to people. When it came to todays meeting I must admit I became a little confused in the conversation as I hadn't realised this and saught clarification on what it was I was meant to be doing to contribute towards the task as I hadn't yet been allocated.

It was decided that I would begin doing the home page and Introduction content. Jodie and myself would work together in setting up the Wiki and work on adjusting the layout of content.

I expressed my concerns to the group that if too many of us were all trying to upload content at different times, we might run the risk or overriding others contributions or messing up the formatting. Therefore it was in agreement by the group that myself and Jodie would be responsible for uploading and    

                                                      editing others content onto the wiki. 

Our allocated Tasks:

Jodie Dunning was responsible for creation of the group wiki and uploading content.
Melissa Baugh was to create the lesson plan and contribute to students resources.
Jenny Matthews would compile resources for teacher and student pages.
Darlene Catalano contribute to resources, create and manage our group presentation.
I would be responsible for the home page and introduction page content, contribute and upload resources. 

Outcomes of Sundays meeting: successful
                                                        made good progress so far
                                                        clearer on our ideas,all the same
                                                        allocated job roles
                                                        agreed to meet together again Thursday to share progress.

Jodie today also asked group members what each of our expectations were for the  assignment . From the groups responses it has made me very happy to see that we all have set very high standards for ourselves and want to achieve high marks. It was reassuring to know that other members of the group were also enjoying this unit as much as myself. They also had as much determination to get the most out of this unit as did I and a pass just would not cut it.