Project
Retrospective – Making Useful Tool ETEC 511 2024W2
Team 1 is
a group of young, vibrant, all girls team led by Elaine Lee. Our project is to design
and create a resource-rich website for students from kindergarten to Grade 5,
tailored specifically for parents in British Columbia to provide a parent’s
guide to elementary maths mastery and committed to align with the BC New
Curriculum.
We
kicked off project on Feb 1, 2024 by initial brainstorming via Zoom meeting to
discuss project topic, medium, target audience and arranged a session with Keri
to discuss the initial thoughts and topics we have. To provide easy access for
all members across time zone, geography, different availability, we use Google
docs to share 1) Meeting Agenda 2) Group project proposal draft and amendment.
We use Wix to create the website, and Genially to do the learning material,
with printables including work sheets and YouTube resources attached for
offline further discussion and practice for parents and kids.
We build
the website from scratch. With five members onboarded, we did labour division
in terms of design and execution and make sure each member try new tools as a self
challenge.
My role includes
1) Module 3, repetitive patterns – course design, learning material design,
draft and execution via Genially with background voice explanation, printable
materials (worksheets).
2) Final
presentation and demo: rationale and connection to IPs
3) APA
reference for all the video content from Module 1 to Module 5
4) over
90% attendance rate for weekly discussion and provide constant feedback
regarding content discussion.
This is
a star team with good leader Elaine Lee who demonstrated strong leadership with
clear logic, efficient execution skills, not-too-pushy leading style, clear
timeline and proper paced. I got the chance to try Wix and Genially, the two
useful tools that I never tried before and participated thought provoking
discussions every week. Keri provided helpful guidelines to make sure we are on
right track. We incorporated IPs discussions, and make sure our output is based
on First Peoples Principle of Learning/EDIDA, usability and accessibility – key
fundamental concepts that learned in ETEC 511.
Regardless
of final score of our team project, the team work experience itself is fruitful
and enjoyable. Team has formed a healthy , safe and non-judgmental discussion space
which encourage team members to share their thoughts and opinions openly. We
focus on continuous improvement, not blame, on any output from each member. During
weekly Zoom online meeting, for members who cannot join, they were encouraged
to read “meeting agenda” and catch up themselves. This gives everyone the
flexibility while still sees close to full attendance of each member for the
weekly meeting.
Due to
time limit and limited technology knowledge background of team members, the website
itself may look a bit simple and our numeracy content is only for Grade 1 for
students in BC. The content could be more multi-layered, resourceful and
dynamic if time allows.
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