Project 13 Summary

My partner, Melissa Willis, and I had to come up with a lesson plan for the smart board without meeting face to face. This was hard to do considering we see each other all the time. It was cool though to get to use Skype a few times to talk to her about this project. Our most useful tool, in my opinion, was the telephone. We communicated with that a lot. We tried using Google Chat, but it was difficult to keep the conversation going and the ideas coming. Another useful tool we used was our emails. This helped because Melissa found some of the websites incorporated into our lesson. So instead of having to talk to each other, she just emailed the link which was easy to put into the lesson. We were also able to email each other pictures that we thought would fit into the lesson. I found that it was better when we were talking to each other through Skype and the telephone. Skype almost feels as if you are meeting face to face because you can see the person and keep the conversation going. While on the telephone, it was easy to keep the conversation going as well, even though you can't see the person. It became more difficult when we would try to use things that required us to type what we were thinking to each other. We had a great time doing this lesson, and I feel as if we both learned to appreciate the power of technology more.