Reading Reflection #5

Chapter 5: Project Management for Teachers and Learners

1. Discussion on the items that should be considered before starting a project with students.

• The items that should be considered before starting a project with students are first to take a look at your inventory and view as to what materials, tools, or supplies are available at school or offered by the parent community and other supporters. You would have to ask yourself does your project involve the use of technologies that are new to you or your students and what will you need to do in order to expand your students' access to technology? Also you would have divide responsibilities to a collaborating team and decide which tasks they will be responsible for and how will that team organizes who does what. 

2. Discussion on teachers’ and students’ management needs.

Teachers' Management Needs: 

• Tools for communicating with students and others about the project.
• Tools for making milestones and events visible and for notifying students when changes occur
• methods for getting resources to students
• systems for managing work products
• structures that support a productive learning environment in which teams and individuals are engaged in a variety of learning tasks at the same time
• assessment tools and strategies

Students' Management Needs:

• systems and tools that help them manage their time and flow of work
• systems that help students manage materials and control work drafts
• collaboration tools
• methods for seeking assistance
• ways to get and use feedback on their work, through self-reflection, team input, and teacher advice
• ways to work interactively and to see how parts add up to the whole

3. Discuss some of the technology applications that should be considered for use in a project.

• Some technology applications that can be used in a project are wiki which is an easily edited  page. Another technology application is using a blog. The structure and the flow is a one-to-many delivery system with one one primary author controlling the contents. 

4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

• The concepts of this chapter relates to my topic by knowing the roles that a student and a teacher has .in participating in a technology-based project consisting on collaboration. It is important for students to feel responsible for a role in an organized assignment in order for them to be engaged in a job succeed in making the project come together nicely.