Task Three

Beginning to work as a team: plans, records and achieving goals

Facilitator Carol Maxwell: Team Leader, Technology Enhanced Learning Support

For this task you will be located in the collaboration suite for the class briefing moving to room 1007
form the practical work. The activities below will be set in the context of brainstorming ideas for your
academic poster and individual documentary movie.

You will not have time to complete all of these tasks. You should continue to follow the group poster
task over next two weeks and use it to guide you in choice of topic. SUBMISSION OF POSTER TOPICS
TO BLACKBOARD IS 29 SEPTEMBER BY 11.59PM (Week 4). You can return to the individual task later
in the term when you begin your documentary work.

Aims of the tasks today

1. To create appropriate groups according to potential interests

2. To consider potential issues for the group poster
3. To experience a different way of thinking
4. To experience communicating effectively and efficiently between individuals within a group
5. To consider the process of goal setting for individual and for group work
6. To begin to use Pebblepad to record current activity and plan future activities
7. To begin to use Pebblepad to evaluate individual and group progress

Briefing meeting: Collaboration Suite

Introduction to the tasks

Self-selection of groups by classifying according to individual interests. Combining those results to

identify groups

Naming of groups

Practical Work: Room 1007

Sit in class at computers according to your group

Short Introductory talk Siobhan and Carol

What is PebblePad?

What does it facilitate?

How do we use it?

PSY307 Applied Psychology

Week Two

Using Pebblepad to Facilitate individual work

a. Create an individual Module Workbook Asset from the Resource Siobhan has created.
Look at the structure of the workbook. (You may want to start your answer to What
is Reflection now, but you can finish it later)
b. Create an Action Plan add it to your workbook, then save.
c. Make a preliminary Action Plan for your documentary (this will grow and become
more detailed as module progresses)
d. Consider different types of material (Assets) that may be useful to facilitate
completing your movie (journal articles, Web Sites, movie examples, interviews,
images, sound bites)
e. Learn how to upload different classes of material (Assets) to your Individual Asset
Store
f. Linking your Personal Action Plan for your documentary to your Individual Module
Workbook. Note: when you subsequently edit and update your action plan there is
not need to re-upload the plan, it will automatically update within the workbook.

Using Pebblepad to Facilitate Group Work

a. One person creates a Group Academic Poster Collaborative Portfolio (with guidance
from Siobhan re structure)
b. Share Portfolio with rest of group members (Note: only one person can edit the
portfolio at one time).
c. The first page should hold a list of student names and student id numbers and a
group selfie (you can easily upload photographs via Pebble Pocket)
d. Consider different types of material (Assets) that may be useful to facilitate
completing your group poster (journal articles, Web Sites, movie examples,
interviews, images, sound bites). You may want to add an Action Plan to your
portfolio.
e. Work on the content of your Group Module Workbook
f. Each person should then link the Group Academic Poster Collaborative Portfolio to
their individual module workbook.

Carol Maxwell

Siobhan MacAndrew

13 September 2017