PE5_Teambox

I have created an assignment that I will be giving to my students in about two weeks, which will require them to use Teambox to organize and manage their progress. I have challenged my students to create a comprehensive documentary of the music video they will be producing as their collaborative final project for the school year. The initial project is the music video itself, and the documentary is an idea I thought of while planning the instructions for the music video assignment. With the help of Teambox I will be able to monitor their progress and see if they are effectively communicating with each other, sharing ideas, and meeting deadlines. With a project of this magnitude, I thought it would be a good idea to include a management process that will keep them organized and allow them to work as a group over a period of time.

After spending more time getting familiar with Teambox, I have been able to learn more of what this resource can provide for an assignment like this documentary. Teambox is set up so that I can start a conversation/project, and include the specific details of what the objectives are in order to reach the final goal. Teambox is arranged in a way that students will be able to document their process at each stage of the assignment. They will be able to upload text documents, and photo images required for this assignment. Additionally, Teambox provides a time tracking process that will help students compile data of the duration of each component of the documentary. Another great feature of Teambox is that it will send an alert to me via email to notify me of all updates students have made to the overall assignment. I can then monitor what users have logged on and what contributions they have made.

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