Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Flat Classroom Project Reflection
Student Summit
I just got done with my flatclassroom project a few days ago, and I can honestly say that it was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be. My teacher asked us to blog about some lessons that we learned during this project, and I can honestly say that there is more than one. One thing that I learned during this project was to have patients with others. The time you had to wait for people in your group to respond to what you write to them is a little frustraiting. Another lesson I learned was understanding others online. It was dificult with understanding some things during the communication with people in my group, but eventually everything got straightened out. Some things that people posted didn't make much sence to me because of the way they would write it. I also learned to take things into my own hands when I want something to get done. There would be times that people in my group would take a long time to respond or just didn't do somethings they were assigned to do, so I was forced to do them myself for my own benefits.
This project was not something I hated doing, but I ended up enjoying some things about it. I reallt liked that we got to see other people's videos when they were done with it. I also liked that the students had to outsource a video for other people so they could use it in their project video. I liked that because it was creative and showed that you had to work with others, not just make a video of everything exactly how you wanted it.
There were some challenges to this project, and as I said before, the communication and time were the biggest dificulties to me. It was just really fristraiting because you had to wait on others, and there was no way to get ahold of them, besides on the wiki page. Some schools were on a break when we weren't, some kids just didn't care, and others got on at a different time that you did so it just made things a whole lot worse.
I think the project could use a few changes, like the interacting with one another. I think the project would have been a bit more enjoyable if the students actually had to talk to eachother/see them (skype or video chat) so they could learn a little bit more about eachother to make it easier to work together. I feel like other kids would have got more involved if they were also learning about different schools and people and being able to see them to make their communication easier.
I just got done with my flatclassroom project a few days ago, and I can honestly say that it was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be. My teacher asked us to blog about some lessons that we learned during this project, and I can honestly say that there is more than one. One thing that I learned during this project was to have patients with others. The time you had to wait for people in your group to respond to what you write to them is a little frustraiting. Another lesson I learned was understanding others online. It was dificult with understanding some things during the communication with people in my group, but eventually everything got straightened out. Some things that people posted didn't make much sence to me because of the way they would write it. I also learned to take things into my own hands when I want something to get done. There would be times that people in my group would take a long time to respond or just didn't do somethings they were assigned to do, so I was forced to do them myself for my own benefits.
This project was not something I hated doing, but I ended up enjoying some things about it. I reallt liked that we got to see other people's videos when they were done with it. I also liked that the students had to outsource a video for other people so they could use it in their project video. I liked that because it was creative and showed that you had to work with others, not just make a video of everything exactly how you wanted it.
There were some challenges to this project, and as I said before, the communication and time were the biggest dificulties to me. It was just really fristraiting because you had to wait on others, and there was no way to get ahold of them, besides on the wiki page. Some schools were on a break when we weren't, some kids just didn't care, and others got on at a different time that you did so it just made things a whole lot worse.
I think the project could use a few changes, like the interacting with one another. I think the project would have been a bit more enjoyable if the students actually had to talk to eachother/see them (skype or video chat) so they could learn a little bit more about eachother to make it easier to work together. I feel like other kids would have got more involved if they were also learning about different schools and people and being able to see them to make their communication easier.
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