Group Leadership Project

Group 1 Movie - click here


What tool did your group use to deliver the PD tutorial? Why?
What did you learn during the development process of the final product?
What would you do differently if you had to develop a similar product again?

Our group used Google Presentation for our slides and comments. One group member even did his in Power Point and downloaded it into Google Presentation. He said this was very easy. We picked Google Presentation because it was very simple to use and it worked well for us to use as a group and edit, both individually and in real time. We used Audacity to record our parts of the video. I think Audacity is also very easy and straightforward to use. We used iMovie to put it all together which worked very well, but only one of us had a Mac to do this. Getting the voice recordings timed just right was a little bit of work, but not too bad. The timing was really good actually, until I loaded it into my blog. When I went to look at it, the timing is all messed up. :( I think it is fixed now. :)
I learned a number of things through this process. One was that it was extremely difficult for us to get together and discuss things. We had some technical difficulties, all had very busy schedules, and on top of that we had a huge time difference to work with. I did use Doodle a couple of times for us to set up a time to meet, and this tool proved to be VERY HELPFUL! I will definitely use this again! We did have some difficulties having two group members using Windows and one using a Mac. When we met in real time, the Mac user could not always do things we could, for example share his screen. Next time I would like to try something other than Google Presentation. I would use something that allowed us to put action in our slides. I searched all through Google Presentation, but I could not find a way to transition between slides or have movement on a slide. This was very disappointing to me. I'd like to try using Power Point and then downloading it into Google Presentation to see how this works. I am wondering if the transitions and movement would come with it. The one thing I learned during this project, was about all the Apps Google has. I think it is an important thing to keep updated on because Google keeps adding to them! :)