EEND676 Artifact #2 Writing and Assessing a Collaborative Task

For artifact #2, I chose the assignment from  Module 6.  We were required to write an assignment that used a collaborative tool and then also create a rubric to assess the students on completing the collaborative task.  I was trying to think of a way to use this in a PE setting so that it would make sense to try with my students in the future.  One of the few negatives of elementary PE is that they only receive it for 30 minutes, two time a week.  It is not a lot of time to have deep discussions about specific topics and also have time to practice the skills.  Often times, the discussion piece gets lost in time and our topics stay very superficial.  I thought it would be neat if students chose a sport that interested them and were allowed to create a short Google slide show of what they felt was important for the class to know.  The groups would be assigned and would be 3 or 4 people.  Each student would be responsible to create their own slide and would need to provide enough information to share out and also include one piece of media.  By using Google Slides, students would be able to work on their own, at home, at anytime, and not have to all be together to work on it.  I also created a simple rubric for how I would grade the students based on the areas I felt were important.  By providing a list of different sports or topics, I could limit it to 1 group per topic so there were no repeats and also would allow me to have 1 group present when their topic was being taught during the school year.  I like the idea of students working together on something but in a digital way.  I think it's important for students to learn how to work with each other not just in a face to face setting but also in a digital way.

"History of Sports" Assignment