Reading Reflection 5

There are four things that should be considered before starting a project with students.  The first thing you should consider is gathering resources.  This means what supplies will the students need to complete the project.  The second thing that needs to be considered is what milestones and deadlines the students will have to meet. With effective deadlines, students will have a greater likelihood of completing the entire project on time.  The next thing to consider is team planning.  Team planning will allow students to figure out how they are going to go about completing the project.  The last thing to consider is plan for assessment.  This pertains to how will you as a teacher grade the students project.
Teachers and students need many different management skills.  One of these skills would be time management.  Without time management students may not finish their project on time.  It is important for students to continually work on their project throughout their time given for the assignment.  Students and teachers also need organization skills.  If the teacher is able to organize things the students will have a better understanding of what needs to be done during the project.  Students need to be able to organize so that they will be able to keep track of the supplies that are needed for the completion of the project.
Technology use can be very useful during the project.  However, it is important to to start with simple forms of technology for the students to start the project with.  Later, the students will be able to use harder forms of technology at the end of the project some uses of technology applications that the students could use are Wiki projects, Drupal, and Textpattern.  Students could also uses iGoogle, Webmail, or My Yahoo.
One of the biggest topics that relates to our project is the use of technology.  We have used many different forms of technology while doing this project.  I also feel that we started with simpler forms of technology use at the beginning of the semester than we have recently.  Another topic that relates to our project is the things that we need to consider before starting the project.  Before we started the project, we discussed what supplies would be needed to complete the project.  An example of this would be the flashdrive that was required, so that we could save documents and work on them in different locations.