Evaluation of personal accelerometer resource

I felt my Accelerometer resource was fairly strong. I had a brief explanation as to what the accelerometer did, followed by what the Magic 8 ball is and a fun website that runs on the same concept as the magic 8 ball.
By using step by step instructions with explanations as to why they are selecting x tab, and why you have to create numbers for the magic 8 ball to relate to the phrases provided, I felt the resource was strong - a teacher or student who have never coded before could easily try to use the resource and most likely succeed. Teachers have a better understanding of their pupils abilities, and I'd rather make the resource as detailed as possible to they can takeaway ideas and steps, than make it 'underdone' as some teachers may not think the resource is open enough or accessible enough for their pupils to understand.

By keeping the resource itself as open as possible it enables teachers to create lots of ways of making the lesson their own. For example I gave suggestions as to how the work could be done in pairs or in teams or even individually. I also gave suggestions as to how the teacher could compare the 8 ball micro:bit to a board game which meant that the children using the resource might find it more relatable.

Why we used Sway

We were originally going to use Mix and not Sway to create the resource - we chose to switch as we liked that sway was different to the standard PowerPoint set up - some children might prefer this and find it more engaging. Another pro of using Sway for us was that it is very easy to duplicate - we shared our resources with Aidan via duplicating our original and allowing him to edit them - all online which is great as if it you loose a memory stick or something that holds your normal files, it is still available online.

One of the great features about Sway is that is fairly basic - it hasn't got too many additional bells and whistles. This means that pupils will be less distracted and hopefully remain more on tasks - it remains clear and concise. However there are a wide range of things that we have still used to make the resources more fun and engaging - such as Kahoot and Magic 8 ball.

Weekly Scheduele

14/10/16	Meeting	With Aidan at Trinity school	Brief and ideas discussed
04/11/16	Lecture	Introduction of my mixes	Changing the delivery method on brief to PowerPoint mixes, as this combines all of the elements requested in one place
04/11/16	Collaboration meeting	Discussion between Chris and Sophie	Changes made to original brief
09/11/16	Email	To Aidan @ Trinity	Out lining the brief and asking for feed back.  Is this do able?   What resources do you have available/Do you have the extra kit?   Project brief was given the green light by client.
11/11/16	Collaboration meeting	Discussion between  Chris, Sophie and Kelly	Going over the brief and making sure everyone is clear on what they are meant to deliver. Lessons assigned to each member (see table in planning)
11/11/16	Lecture	Ideas for lesson plan resources (see general resources)	No actual lesson plan is needed (as in the teachers word doc in lesson planning)
23/11/16	Messages on twitter	Arranging a meeting	Meeting Friday to show what we have created so far and to discuss any problems etc.
25/11/16	Meeting	Sophie, Chris	We talked about how to organise the delivery of the final product. Worries about duplication of other resources. We discussed the lack of communication from the others.
28/11/16	Meeting and Lecture	Sophie Chris Annie	Discussed Annies role in project, what we all have to do, and how to push our resource further. We decided to use Sway at this point

08/11/16
Meeting - Sophie Chris and Annie - Arranged final details, ensuring everything is up to scratch, final changes we could make etc!