Group Work

In addition to helping your child develop individual academic skills, his or her teacher will likely also assign projects that require group work in order to help develop important social skills. Many of these projects will involve some form of computer technology.

Select a question below to learn more about group work. Use the navigation to the left to learn about other technologies.

1. Isn't "group work" just cheating?
2. Why work in groups?
3. What kinds of projects might your child's group be assigned?
4. How can students work together if they can't physically be in the same place?
5. How do students share computer files?

What kinds of projects might your child's group be assigned?

They might be asked to write a collective essay or report; in such instances, each student will often be responsible for specific sections of the report. They might do a group presentation that features a computer graphics presentation (using such software as Microsoft PowerPoint).

To learn more about PowerPoint visit: http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/default.asp.

A class might work together to create a class Web page on the Internet. To do so they would use software like Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Visit http://www.macromedia.com to learn more about Dreamweaver.

Some other popular Web page editors are:
Microsoft FrontPage (http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/)
Adobe GoLive (http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html)
NAMO WebEditor (http://www.namo.com/)

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