11th lesson report 4th April 2007

Starting from this point lesson plans and reports are posted as one entry.

Scope of the lesson was creation of project time plans in teamwork:

1. time plan for event preparation in MS Project environment,
2. event schedule in freely selected environment.

Because duration units for preparation and event are different, schedules must create and stored in different Google Docs files. It was suggested that team will share the workload – one subgroup creates the schedule for preparation period, other for event. Some of the groups worked in this way, some don’t:

In the team of the 1th September event one team member sit behind the computer and created both of the schedules. Other members sit behind his back and did … It’s not clear what they did. I should check. This team had lot of problems with using the MS Project. All members were missing from last lesson. They did not know what to do with MS Project. The schedule (timetable) of event was OK because they created this in Spreadsheet environment. The Gantt chart of the preparation tasks was lousy. Idea: MS Project and other specific software programs must be introduced in different lessons and with different exercises.

In the team of the summer party project 2 students sit behind the same computer and created both of the time plans. What did the rest of the group I don’t know. I’m sure, they did not play games but did they share ideas. I wonder how less I care about the creation process! Why I’m mostly interested if results? I should change this. Idea: observe the creation process in team.

Both of the schedules were created in MS Project. The quality of event was very high. They even asked and implemented solutions that we did not studied in last lesson. The quality of preparation period is not so high because team was running out of time.

In the school graduation event project team the workload was shared. The two of them – the most clever ones – started with event schedule. Then they delegated the task to other members of this team and continued with preparation period schedule. The quality of both schedules is high.

Team complained that some of the team members (Tanel Erik, Aadu, Kristella) do nothing. They even don’t visit the lessons. I must contact with them.

For conclusion this lesson was quite OK. All the teams worked as they wanted and desired documents were created. Although this time the quality of results varies and the grades are different from team to team. If team finished the task earlier they were allowed to leave from the classroom.

Overall rate for lesson 5.