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As a group, we split our roles and understood the tasks that were needed to be completed. We came to the conclusion that a webquest such as this would prove to be beneficial for a student if it was created with a particular meaning. The benefits of using Wikispaces is that a teacher can create a task to meet their own specific requirements, rather than spending hours searching for a similar one on the internet. This project has been put to us in order for us to understand that we don't always have to go straight to an outside source, but rather create our own webquest, or internet pages for students. Another benefit of using Wikispaces is that it is simple, even students would be able to create their own web pages, blogs or quests with very little instruction. The purpose of this assignment was for us to see how easy and versatile a site such as Wikispaces can be, and when used correctly could quite easily be a key teaching tool when incorporating ICT into a lesson.
 * Group Understanding:**

Brainstorm of General Ideas
 * Possible Ideas For The Project:**



Zoo Brainstorm




 * Project Management Plan:**


 * Learning Area Outcomes:**


 * //Resources:// **//students understand that people attempt to meet their need and wants by making optimum use of limited resources in enterprising ways.//

This ICT Intergration Project allows students to look at the resources that are available to us, and allow them to realise that once they are gone, there is no coming back. Conservation is a definate way of showing that people are making optimum use from limited resources, and hopefully using enterprising techniques in order to get these animals away from the threat of extinction. This Learning Area Outcome explores ways in which to help animals that are endangered and gives students the voice to want to make a change in the way society controls these animals lives.


 * //Natural and Social Systems:// **//students understand that systems provide order to the dynamic natural and social relationships occurring in the world. //

In many ways the //Resources// outcome works, //Natural and Social Systems// links the ways in which students see animals and how natural and man made influences can affect an animal population. They will question why some animals can live together and why some can't. This outcome allows students to expereince and relate to a changing world, and ways in which we can help endangered animals adapt to these changes, without them becoming extinct.


 * Why We Chose The Three ICT Tools:**


 * Microsoft Powerpoint:** Microsoft Powerpoint is an essential tool that has been used for years and years. By using it in this ICT project, it gives the students the basic skills to work and produce slideshows for presentations. Students are able to use PowerPoint to present most forms of media. Through PowerPoint, the student can become the teacher, they can share their information with other students, allowing for a more constructivist based classroom.


 * Microsoft Word:** Microsoft Word is another essential part of ICT, which students need to learn to use so they can further their learning. There are many features such as constructing tables, inserting pictures, designing pages and adding or enhancing clip arts which may seem easy to some, but do need to be taught to students. Through Microsoft Word, students can create posters, banners and other visually enhancing creations to gain and educate others.


 * Inspiration/Webspiration:** This tool is one that is often disregarded and considered unessential, or not as important in ICT. Through Inspiration, students have the power to create their own ways of thinking and put them down on paper. The use of brainstorming ideas onto paper is that the student can not be wrong in what they think, it is a way to organise and express their thoughts in a less intrusive way.


 * Lesson Plans:**

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The students will be a part of a Constructivist Classroom as this project works on the principle that students will need to converse and interact with each other in order for their project to work. Although they are achieving individual tasks, the tasks also include a group element, in which no task is fully complete without the communication of the whole group acting as one team. Social Constructivists believe that students will learn more when placed in an open learning environment and have the ability to work and communicate with their peers, rather than just having a teacher centred learning approach. Our project, Create A Zoo, allows students to reach their personal goals as well as giving them the group element, where, at points throughout their tasks, they will need to work collaboratively as a group in order to produce maximum results.
 * How The Project Is Centred On A Social Constructivist Classroom:**