Group Leadership Project

Here is the first version of our Group Leadership Project focused on the Google Applications.




For our project, we decided to use Google Presentation because our project focused on the Google applications. Since we wanted to show the ease of the Google applications, it seemed fitting to use one of them to deliver the tutorial.

As we worked together, there are a few things I would do differently. First, our original collaboration time wasn't with the most effective tool. We used Vyew, a program none of us had used before. Much of our time was spent trying to figure out the program instead of talking with each other about the project. Once we had decided on a topic and split up the work, the majority of the rest of the work was individual. I liked working individually on different aspects of the Google applications, though there are so many of them. Through my research, I learned how much Google has added to its Geo applications, especially Google Earth. I played around with Google Earth quite a bit when it first came out, but haven't spent much time with it since then. Going back now, I am very impressed with how much has been added and the way Google specifically targets educators using their program. It's easy to use and has many resources to connect teachers together.

If I had to do something similar to this again, I would split up the work differently. While it seemed fair to have us all do the same thing - research and create slides about different Google applications - this made the final product a bit harder to put together. Communication became difficult with one person making a decision for the whole group, hoping it was an okay decision. In the end, not all of the presentation made it into the youtube video above due to these miscommunications. It is frustrating at times to work solely through the internet with a group of people who all have their own schedules and agendas. Splitting up different jobs might have been a better way to go about this particular project.

If the entire video is completed, I will repost it.