Workout+Task

Workout for Communication:
 * **Objective:** Given a standard in a grade specific content area, students will be able to design and develop a communication plan for various stakeholders based on the provided rubric.
 * **Needs:** You have fantastic setup! You have a SmartBoard in your classroom, you can take your students to the computer lab at anytime, and all the students have internet access at home. Many of your students have cell phones, but not all of them do. Don't forget, children sometimes lose access to their cell phones if they get grounded (just something to think about!).
 * **Case Scenario:**
 * You attended a professional development day for the district and made some wonderful contacts in your grade and content area. Before the day ended, a few of you decided to collaborate together on a lesson in the future. The only problem that you all work at different schools! You know you'll be able to get together for coffee for the initial planning meeting, but after that, you will have to collaborate online or via some other form of communication.
 * At the first meeting, you each share a standard that you would like to address. Granted, you will not be able to address all the standards, so you decide tackle one or two (or three if you are bold).
 * Once you have your standard(s) set, as a group you decide that you would like your classrooms to be able to collaborate with each other. Thus, the lesson that come up with must have some aspect of **collaboration between classrooms**.
 * Seeing as how all of you are accomplished technology using teachers, you decide that you want the students to take as much ownership in the lesson/project that they can. This means that, if at all possible, students should be in control of the technology. It's great for teachers to use technology, but it's even better if the students can use it.
 * In order to make your lives easier, you've decided before the work can begin, some sort of **communication structure needs to be designed and developed (your task today)**. You need the following communication lines to exist:
 * 1) Teachers with teachers* (e.g. Your GROUP communication)
 * 2) Students with students*
 * 3) Teachers with students*
 * 4) Teacher with Parents
 * 5) Students/Teachers with Experts
 * (note, since you range in group size, if you have a three to a group, address the first three, a group of four, address the first four, etc).


 * Step 1: Planning Phase ("Coffee talk")**
 * Collaborate with your team to **decide on the standard(s) that you wish to pursue**. You can do multiple standards (interdisciplinary approach), but for your sake, do not do more than three.
 * Once your standard is picked, **AS A GROUP develop a plan for your lesson or project**. Include the following:
 * What you want the students to be able to do?
 * **Define specifics in the template**, which is posted here: [[file:lesson_plan.xlsx]]. This template will cover items to think about, such as:
 * How you will assess the learners
 * Time for lesson (how much time will students spend on this lesson in class?)
 * Materials needed
 * Anticipated Problems
 * **Decide upon your roles.** Each of you will develop a list of three communication options for your given group of stakeholders (e.g. teacher to teacher, student to teacher, etc).
 * As a group, **create a new Google Doc** and Paste in the following info. It will serve as the template I will use to grade your work.
 * Group Name:
 * Content area(s):
 * Standard(s):
 * Group project you designed (provide a brief description of 7 to 10 sentences)
 * Link to your Excel file:
 * Communication Options: //(Provide three links to communication websites for each stakeholder below* and include the intended purpose of that tool as you envision it with the lesson or project that you designed)//
 * Teachers with teachers* (e.g. Your GROUP communication)
 * Option 1
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 2
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 3
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Students with students*
 * Option 1
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 2
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 3
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Teachers with students*
 * Option 1
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 2
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 3
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Teacher with Parents
 * Option 1
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 2
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 3
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Students/Teachers with Experts
 * Option 1
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 2
 * Intended Purpose:
 * Option 3
 * Intended Purpose:
 * AS A GROUP, decide on the communication tools you will use for each category and provide a rationale. Only one catch! You have to make this decision online. You cannot turn to your peers to make the final decisions.
 * Teachers with teachers* (e.g. Your GROUP communication)
 * Tool to be used:
 * Rationale:
 * Students with students*
 * Tool to be used:
 * Rationale:
 * Teachers with students*
 * Tool to be used:
 * Rationale:
 * Teacher with Parents
 * Tool to be used:
 * Rationale:
 * Students/Teachers with Experts
 * Tool to be used:
 * Rationale:
 * Step 2: Design/Development Phase**
 * Once you have decided what communication group you are going to tackle, move back to your own computer and come up with three options for communication for that particular group using the collaborative Google Doc space.
 * Decide as a group what tool you will use and why (this must be done without talking, so think of how you will communicate with each other)


 * Step 3: Analysis/Evaluation Phase**
 * We will present our findings to the class at the end of this workout, so be ready to speak on the work that YOU did.