It was terrific to work with my group of high school teachers to create our group project though there were some ups and downs because of us having to deal with end of school year issues, relocation, and health issues. First, our brainstorming webinar was a disaster with WebHuddle. One member was unable to logon to the meeting despite having all of the logon information, and I was dropped off in the middle of the meeting and was unable to log back on.
Our project is a professional development tool that shows users how to use Weebly, a free website development tool, to provide students and/or parents access to material that was missed because of student absence or to provide tutoring and practice to those who had trouble understanding the material.
First, I started a Weebly website, cep812highschoolleadership.weebly.com, that each member could edit. However, since I have more experience editing on Weebly, I was the leader of the development of the site. Next, each of us used Jing, which is an outstanding screen capture tool that we used to make screencast videos of the slides that we developed on Google Presenter. Then I had my team members email me the embed code which I was then able to add to the website. Sami was in charge of the intro and conclusion text.
My specific video was on downloading homework, notes, and tutorials. I used a Weebly site for this use during the last quarter of the school year, and the results were promising because some of my students used the site to download assignments and to watch video tutorials. I think the instructions provided to users and the videos my group made for our site are easy to understand.
Things I might have done differently: for our storyboard, we used Google Presenter and used Google Documents for the script. In retrospect, I would use Presenter if for no other reason than it was inefficient to have to back and forth to compare the two parts during our collaborations. Also, it might have been good to add music or effects using Camtasia.
Here are our Jing videos.
Introduction by Shannon Forsberg
Video by Samantha Forster
Homework by me
Blogging by Kathy Raphael
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