I always find it very informative when working with peers on an assignment. Naturally we all come to an assignment with different backgrounds, educational history and life experience. It is through projects like this, which force us to learn more about each other that our perspective on topics can often change. For this particular assignment I chose to evaluate WordPress as a possible online learning platform. I chose it for a number of reasons, one of them being that my district supports WordPress and hosts WordPress sites on our intranet. Because of this, I am somewhat familiar with this platform, but would also like to use more inclusively in my teaching practice. Through discussions within my group I became aware that many people actually find WordPress cumbersome and not as user friendly as other platforms like Weebly for instance. I personally had never considered using Weebly in my classroom, but think that I should at least consider it.
Any time a group of individuals is working together on a project there are certain difficulties that arise. In my experience within this program the same set of difficulties is present in every group. Since we are all professionals, with work, family and other commitments coordinating time to work on a group project is always an issue. Add in working with individuals from multiple time zones and synchronous communication may not always be possible. Through this I have learned that even though completing a project through asynchronous communication may take additional time and effort, it is entirely possible.