The BYOD Movement Group: Debra White, Taisa Steeb, Denise Tolliver, Jill Fleming, and Maggie Ward has all worked very well together. We have collaborated on many different levels, we have been a team because we have equally pulled our weight in all areas. I loved how our team has many different talents such as research, academic writing, multimedia creation, and much more. Our team have been dealt some difficult cards in our personal lives. We've had funerals and weddings to go to and have had to collaborate with forgiveness and love of our sisters in Christ.
My contribution was Section V on the summary, discussion, and further research of the BYOD movement literature review. I have started with collaboration from Jill, the Google Site. I am not familiar with Wiki and knew that we needed more multimedia interaction for our project so I made a Google Site that is more interactive and appealing to the eye. After we have made changes to our final literature review, I was responsible for submitting out literature review to a journal. The journal that we have chosen is the Review of Educational Research because they accept literature reviews. This was a process in general because we had to create an account and adhere to the manuscript guidelines.
I learned a lot about BYOD and I thought the best part of reviewing the literature is seeing the case studies of implementing the BYOD in schools. I believe I got more out of www.k12blueprint.com/byod than the peer-reviewed journal articles because I saw the process come together. I appreciated the advanced preparation guidelines that a district needs to complete in order for BYOD to truly be effective. I think I can become a leader within my district on trying to implement BYOD because I think this movement would be cost effective for my district and be more effective for students to complete assignments and adhere to the Common Core State Standards. I would like to be a part of the team to try and provide teachers the professional development in order to make their flipped classroom effective and student directed.
Overall I think we all collaborated very well, I felt we were even in our gifts throughout this project.
Great post! How might you use wikis to bring about collaboration within your district?
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Thank you! We are a Google school and use Google Sites mostly. I have tried to communicate through another district using Wiki but I think it is actually pretty difficult for people to get used to the platform.
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