Our Group PBL

Link to group website: http://groupapblmedt7464.weebly.com/

     Wow! What a project challenge. I was the lead disseminator for our group. Basically, I was in-charge of the technology part, and creating either a wiki or a website for our group to display our PBL proposal. For this project, our group collaborated using Google Docs. Using Google Docs was much easier than having to e-mail constantly, and possibly missing something. The Google Docs allowed us to communicate instantly, almost like a chat, and we were able to stay organized by having everything in one location. I created our group website using www.weebly.com 
     This is a free website creating tool, and is very simple to use. It offers great tools and creates a very professional looking website. I enjoyed having the task of setting up the website. It was challenging, but I enjoyed the learning experience. 

     Our group created a PBL for an elementary school of one of our group members. In our write up we would pretend to go out to schools and train the team member of each grade level on how to use Voice Thread, and Comic Life. I found this project to be the most challenging project of all. I enjoyed collaborating with a group and being able to depend on other members for help and guidance. This task has helped me grow in the area of Project Based Learning, when before I knew nothing about. In completing our project, and reviewing the other projects, I have gained more than enough knowledge to be able to effectively implement some form of PBL in my future classroom. I will save the lesson plans my group created, as well as the others, to put into my education resource file. I wasn't expecting to learn as much as I did going into this project, but am glad that we were faced with such a profitable project.
     Overall, this project was time consuming and challenging, but I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed seeing the different ways each group interpreted the directions and how we made our PBL projects our own. I could see school systems wanting to use and be able to incorporate something from each group. I found this project to be very beneficial to me as an educator because not only helped me become more aware of what PBL is, but how to be able to effectively implement it into my future classroom.