Task 3a - Teacher project

Form groups (3-4 people) & select topic

Complete a group task where you create a small sharable educational resource on an educational topic of your choosing.

The Group project brainstorming doc [Google docs] has some ideas for getting started working as a group and key areas that need to be decided upon by your group members.

The following resources provide examples of authentic tasks that may assist you with ideas for creating your own authentic task

• • Authentic learning examples [Herrington website]

  • Scoopit - Authentic elearning [curator jennip98]

  • Diigo - Authentic learning [curator jennip98]

Create wiki pages

Important note: For this task we will create a central space on Wikispaces where all groups will create pages for their project. This will provide you with access to a dedicated authentic task website that you will be able to use in your future teaching. We will provide the URL and full details about how to access the central Wikispace and tutorials to help you get started.

See Online tutorial - week 10: Wikispaces...

Create your resource as an authentic learning environment on a wiki site (3-5 pages). New! View example Wiki project: Plants in the Classroom based on 2011 student example. Sincere thanks to Shelley and Lea for permission to adapt their original work.

Topic content

On your home page, ensure you clearly introduce your educational topic, the target student group (cohort) it would be suitable for, how it links to the curriculum and a description of the authentic task your students are required to complete for this teaching project. Also include your group member names (e.g., Teacher names: Fred Smith, Mary Green, Bill Bloggs)

Include links to resources including at least one of each of the following:

• • Interactive whiteboard resources. New! View student blog post about student registration & how to access the Learning Federation website (thank you Jodie for permission to link to your blog post).

  • Websites (e.g., Google search, Diigo bookmarks, etc)

  • Movies or podcasts (e.g., YouTube, TeacherTube, iTunes, etc)

  • Documents (e.g., articles in pdf format)

  • Social networking sites (e.g., Diigo, Twitter, Shelfari, etc.)

Present your work

• • Create a narrated online presentation (see suggestions below) to explain what your resource is about and the making of your resource.

  • Add a link or embed a copy of your presentation on your wiki group homepage (see example student projects). Videos to be presented by groups in tutorials and online in Week 12.

  • Add a link your group wiki home page to your personal website (eportfolio) created in Assignment 1.

Suggested presentation technologies

+ Create a narrated PowerPoint presentation and upload it to authorStream

New! Example presentation based on Example 1 student project.

Sincere thanks to Shelley and Lea for permission to adapt their original work.

Record, upload and share your presentation on PresentationTube

+ Use Jing to record a screen cast of your wiki pages with narration and upload it toscreencast.com

Create a presentation, run on-screen and use screen recording software to record your slides and narration then upload it to a video sharing website (e.g. YouTube.com, Screencast.com, Vimeo.com)

Screen recording technologies (Free or 30 day free trial)

Video sharing websites (Free)

Plus cooltoolsforschools - Presentation tools

Submit your work

Download the coversheet for this assignment task (on the LMS) and check the marking criteria to ensure you have completed all requirements for this task before you submit your work (upload completed coversheet on the LMS).