Last minute changes...

After re-reading the online presentation elements that are required, (from the Marking Rubric), my group decided that we needed to talk more about how and why tasks were allocated to particular people. We decided to meet up in the student common room and re-record our online presentation to include this information:

Screen capture of the presentation elements that are required.

• Sarah - was given the title of "MANAGER" because this is the area in which her strength lies. Sarah talked about how she created a Google Doc. so that we were able to know exactly what jobs needed to be done and what jobs had been completed. Sarah also organised the "9 Elements of Authentic Learning" included in our Wiki into a table as well as research teacher resources and edit the Wiki.

• Tegan - was give the title of "TECHNOLOGY GURU" because she always seems to be the first person in our group to solve any technical issues that we encounter. Tegan is also extremely creative so she made our model volcano and created the Home page of our Wiki as well as researching teacher resources and also editing the Wiki site.

• Roxy - was given the title of "ASSISTANT" because she is always happy to lend a helping hand and provide additional suggestions. Roxy also created the student Blogs that are on our Wiki, added appropriate images to them and also edited the Wiki.

• Myself - I was given the title of "EXPERTISE" because I was able to draw on my experiences as an Education Assistant to make our Wiki an authentic learning resource. From working with students within the same year level that our Wiki is aimed at I was able to include student resources that I knew would be engaging and appropriate. I also contributed to the group volcano experiment that we conducted and edited the Wiki site.

Our new recording did not take long to complete because we were familiar with the technology, (PowerPoint and Sreencast-O-Matic), and we had already practiced what we were going to say. Again we allocated each group member various slides to narrate, however, Roxy was unable to attend so Sarah talked on her behalf.

On reflection I am glad that we took the time to re-record our online presentation because it appears  more professional and the narration is less rushed and more relaxed. Because we had more time we also discovered that we could choose from a variety of editing options at the end of the screencasting video. With this new knowledge we decided to remove the cursor halo and use a highlighting tool instead which was less distracting for the audience when watching the video. We also noticed in our first online presentation that there was a lot of clicking during the video because we had not scrolled down the screen, therefore we used the scroll function in our final recording.

Playing back our final recording of our online presentation was so satisfying and we are all happy and proud at what we have achieved. I feel that all the hard work, organisation, communication and collaboration has definitely paid of and I can honestly say that we have all done the best that we could have.

This experience of working as a team has been so rewarding and positive because we have all respected and pulled together as a group.

"GREAT JOB TO THE EXPLOSIVE TEAM!"