In the Group Leadership Project we have to create a 10 minute stand alone professional development tutorial on a technology of our choice. I was assigned to Group #3 and it consists of three members: Alejandro Gonzalez, Marcus Clark and myself.
For part A of the GLP we had to make a web conference together were we would brainstorm and choose a technology to be taught and a technology to facilitate the learning.
You can watch our Web-conference recording here: http://vimeo.com/22204766
Unfortunately, one of our group members was not present, so it was just Alex and I for the first meeting. The technology we chose to teach is Google Apps Scripts and we plan to make a narrated video of it. We will use ScreenFlow for making the recording.
More technical aspects and timeline of the project:
We divided our video tutorial in two parts. The first is more about the concept of scripting and the technology behind it. We will create a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid for this section. Some parts of the presentation will be animated so we will campture them with Jing and then put it all together with Screenflow. The second part of the video will be more of a walkthrough of this new feature in Google Apps. We will show how to include already created scripts into Google Spreadsheets and Sites, and how to create a very simple first script using the editor. Both of us will be the narrators of the video and we'll try to make it interesting and funny to watch. We will include some background music and audio effects in some strategic parts of the video as well.
The timeline of our project has three stages. The first stage is to be completed on April 17th with the creation of our script and storyboard. We used Google Apps for this! Our script is in a public Google Document and our storyboard is a Google Site. The second stage for April 23rd is creating our PowerPoint presentation and selecting some background music and audio for our video. The final stage would be recording the actual video using Jing and Screenflow, by the 27th and 28th of April. We should have the finished product by the 30th.
What web conferencing tool did our group use? We used Vyew for our web conference.
What were the advantages to using the web conferencing tool to discuss this project? I think that these types of technologies help you communicate better with others regardless of the distance. I'm in another country so I have no choice but to communicate through some electronic method, and it can be very slow and hard to express oneself with emails, IM or forums. It's nice to hear my classmate's voice! The conference lasted about 30 minutes and we got to decide many things we wanted to accomplish with this project. I'm sure it would have taken a lot longer to reach a decision writing back and forth to each other.
What were the disadvantages to using the web conferencing tool to discuss this project? We had some minor technical problems with the tool. Sometimes I couldn't hear Alex very well and there were some delays with the audio, so it's always good to have backup plan just in case. You also may need other supporting technologies to make your collaboration work more efficient, like Google Docs for example.
At the end it was a very productive meeting and I'm sure we will have others throughout the process of this project.
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