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Group Project

Module 4

Laura Cornils and Mary Fran Anderson

Our project consisted of having middle school students create a simple website to share with another middle school in a different state.

The incentive for doing the project will be a class trip in the spring to the other middle school in the other state.

The group assignment is posted to:

https://sites.google.com/site/cornilsanderson/home

Rubric: http://www.galileo.org/tips/rubrics/website_rubric.pdf

The students will use Google Sites and Project Wiki to create their website. They will use a template to create their website. It will consist of several pages including:

• Home page with a group photo and a blog.
• Project page where a description of the entire assignment is described.
• Team page where the assignment for each team is described.
• Files page where students can upload their information pertaining to self-interests or hobbies, memberships in clubs or organizations, family information and a photo.

For group credit, the students will create the website using Google Sites and Project Wiki. They will introduce themselves to a middle school class in another state. The students will be divided into four groups including:

1. The group responsible for inserting a group photo and choosing a theme for the home page.
2. The group responsible for inserting team member information from the files uploaded by the students. The students can use Google Docs or Microsoft Word to create their files.
3. The group responsible for inserting and starting a class blog on the home page.
4. The group responsible for website updates.

For Individual Credit, the students will be responsible for creating a self-profile page, as mentioned above using Google Docs or Microsoft Word, and a photo of themselves or their family.

The students will also be evaluated on their contributions to the website blog and blogging to the website of the middle school class in another state.

The students will be responsible for sharing their self-reflections of the web building group process with the instructor using Google Knols.