Andrea and I are working on a social studies unit on Michigan with an emphasis on economics. I will be taking the role of the school librarian and Andrea will be working as the classroom teacher. Andrea has been teaching third grade and is very familiar with the subject and I hope to be able to supplement her knowledge with some new resources and technologies that can be used to present the information.
Andrea and I have been using Microsoft Groove to plan our unit. However, we are not certain that Microsoft Groove would be accessible to a lot of classroom teachers and school librarians. We have decided that Google Docs would be a better tool to use in a real world setting since it is free and does not require software. I also like that Google Docs can be accessed from both a PC and a Mac.
As far as assessment, Andrea and I have not decided exactly what they will do. We want the students to create a product of some sort so they can demonstrate their knowledge in an original and creative way. We discussed the possibility of creating a poster and having the students create some sort of presentation, but we are still deciding on what would be the best assessment. We would like to take advantage of the classroom set of iPads available to Andrea, and we would like to use the ResponseWare Application for one form of assessment. This application would allow us to poll the students and get instant feedback that can be displayed to the class.
Andrea and I have been working well together. I think the only roadblock we have faced so far is finding time we are both available to work on the unit. We are both busy with work, classes, and our personal lives. This is probably a good challenge to face as time seems to be the number one hindrance in actual teacher/librarian collaboration.
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