Target Audience
This course was originally designed for 7-12th grade students, however, college students and young professionals can also benefit from the content.
Activity
Using Canva, guide students through age-appropriate strategies to facilitate effective teamwork when creating new business ventures.
Standard
CSTA 2AP-18 Full description:
Collaboration is a common and crucial practice in programming development. Often, many individuals and groups work on the interdependent parts of a project together. Students should assume pre-defined roles within their teams and manage the project workflow using structured timelines. With teacher guidance, they will begin to create collective goals, expectations, and equitable workloads. For example, students may divide the design stage of a game into planning the storyboard, flowchart, and different parts of the game mechanics. They can then distribute tasks and roles among members of the team and assign deadlines.
Product
- Teams
- Identifying roles
- Identifying needs
- Selecting teammates
- Setting expectations
- Tools
- Google Drive, SkyDrive, DropBox, and What’sApp
- Google sheets, docs, and slides
- Brainstorming
- Setting rules and expectations
- Timing
- Scheduling in advance
- Soft vs. hard deadlines
- Bonus Tips
- How to give and receive productive feedback
- Team dynamics and equitable distribution of workload
- Quick Quiz
