Group Assignment Meeting One

12th April 2012

We met in meeting room one at the Rockingham library at 10am as agreed the week before. Unfortunately Shelley could not make the start of the meeting but she joined us later in the morning. Everyone seemed very keen to get moving with this project and all seemed happy to make the effort to attend uni even though it was our assigned break. Nothing like keeping routine in your life!

We began by working through the group project brainstorming document and since I had my laptop with me with Eduroam working I agreed to sign in to the group and take the records of our meeting. For some reason I could not get on to the docs as it appeared that I had not been given access so no problem I had printed out the form and just filled it in.

We agreed on our group learning goals and made the decision to aim to address the High Distinction criteria of the marking rubric and to follow process of the marking rubric as our two key goals. we also set ground rules/Code of conduct that we would communicate via email or text messages between group members as well as hold regular meetings.

Group meetings were set to be held on:
Thursday 19/4/12 and 20/4/12 between 10am-12noon to allow members to get to afternoon workshops.

Our teaching topic was decided to be 'Healthy Lunchbox and Food Safety' and our chosen year group is Year 4. This would definitely fit in with the Health and Physical Eduction K-10 Scope and Sequence.

We all listed individual skills and agreed to go home and work on agreed areas and bring back to the next meeting.

I spoke with Shelley about the Google docs setup and she said she had done it all and I should be authorised to use the site. After a bit of digging around I discovered that she had entered the incorrect email address for me and Jo so she used my computer and set our access up. This will be great as I can then go home and do the write up from the meeting to allow everyone to have a copy of there to do lists and also everyone can add to the docs whenever they like to keep everyone up to speed with things. I like the feel of this way of communication already.

On a personal note I came home not quite sure about which direction we were heading. I suppose I am thinking of things from a third year student who has had a fair amount of experience using the Curriculum framework and K-10 scope and sequence both at uni and also when I was working in schools. I feel I may have been taken the wrong way with some suggestions and when I tried to discuss the opportunities of cross curricular planning with this topic. I understand that this is group work so I shall try and sit back a bit, within reason.