Ok how many times as a teacher do we have the best intentions when we plan a project for a class. we think that this will be the ultimate learning experience and it will appeal to all learner types and then we can display it on our bulletin boards for parent teacher night and everyone will be AMAZED....enter the reality element... on the day this masterpiece is scheduled what we actually see is 3 of 4 students trying to text on their phone under the guise of "doing research" or watching soccer highlights.... and the one on task student ends up doing most of the work. Then the grading nightmare arises from this well intention project. how can we assign different grades to children in the same group??? if you ask them they will claim to have been working together.
This is the typical plotline of most project i have done, which saddens me because there is so much potential for learning content and social skills that will allow success in life after the classroom.
With online tools there are ways to curb this horror story plot turning into the waste of time it can become. wikis are one option, this way it will show what each person contributed and allows assessment to have physical (or electronic if we are being technical) evidence of how much effort was brought to a project. If the project is a 3 pg summary and student A only adds a paragraph then i can show the parents/student why they recieved a much lower grade then the other participants.
Another tool that i literally found a day or 2 ago is called ask3 (its an app for ipad) it allows video creations and comments like a blog.
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