In our focused task, I learned how to use comic life, which is something I have never used before. Steph had used comic life in her school experience and suggested that we try it. I was a little hesitant at first to work with a program that I had never used before, but when I tried out Comic Life, I found that it was pretty straight forward. One thing that I really liked about the program was that you could use the webcam rather than downloading pictures from the internet, or pictures from a digital camera.
Using the program, made me feel comfortable enough that I would be able to use Comic Life in my classroom. I think that Comic Life is a program that would really interest a lot of students, especially the ones who are interested in the comic book style and would give them a different option of writing instead of just writing a story.
We never really had any problems with the task, but we when other students were looking at out project, we did have some confusion about the rubric. I thought it was something that we had clearly stated, but obviously not.
I think my weakness in the contribution in the group was the fact that I had no experience using the program, so Steph did all the teaching of how to use the program and was the expert in that part. In the end, I am really proud of our groups final accomplishment.