Assignment 8: Issues in Integrating Technology

The Group assignment was very interesting because it seemed very challenging in the beginning. The thought of collaborating to accomplish a group assignment through the use of technology was a scary thought for me. I am accustomed to doing group assignments face to face. Communicating through e-mail to plan, organize, and execute a group assignment taught me the benefits and luxuries that technology presents to educators when creating a collaborative effort. Once we began communicating and forming a plan for the assignment, the presentation came together effortlessly. It helped to have a group leader to act as a focal point for ideas and then make a final decision as to how we would ultimately execute our plan for the assignment. We used Google Sites to create our project which provided an easy means of creating a presentation that could be accessed by students from home if necessary. Google Sites allowed the group members to equally contribute to the site since it was very user friendly and required no experience in web design. The assignment came together very well with no problems although we were several hundred miles away from each other. There are almost no limits as to how a teacher can present information to their students.