Evaluation of the Pilot PBL session

Evaluation of our PBL pilot  

We decided to use dropbox for our pilot as a method of sharing information with each other.  This is a free online data storage facility that allows you to give certain people access to folders so that they can add their own files, download files, edit and re-share.


This seems to be a secure site so, if the link below doesn't work and you would like access please let us have your drop box acc ID so that we can share with you.

Group 1 PBL pilot dropbox


So, in terms of 'Investigating', as well as adding our thoughts for each objective to our discussion - Pilot pages we also uploaded documents (for example articles) that we thought might be of interest.

Aida who had the role of note taker, summarised how we had approached this task and this was also stored to dropbox.

We had proposed a second hangout at the end of the pilot....

During the hangout we discussed if we thought the methods used had been successful and everyone agreed that yes, after some familiarisation and learning how to navigate between sites our home discussion page and drop box had been user friendly.  We did however agree that we would use any opportunities to try new forums/tools during this process as it was after all a learning experience for us all and we all appear very eager to try new things.

On reflection we may have missed an opportunity to consolidate learning. Information was shared well and discussed a little but perhaps we should have found some mechanism for checking if each of our learning objectives had been satisfactorily addressed or if any questions remained?

This is worth considering for future units as it is important to consolidate learning.  There is no specific prompt for this with the Cool_FISh model but perhaps we can set this into our group contract?

We all seemed very happy with our good progress so far!