It appears that most of you favor multiple, tactical working groups. In order for those groups to be effective, members will need to know exactly what they are supposed to do and how they are supposed to do it. Here are some questions to consider:
- Will you divide by textual geography ("you take that paragraph and I'll take this one") or by concept (vocabulary, authors, titles, genres, e.g.)?
- Will you budget projects by time to make sure we finish in 24 hours? Will you assign roles to group members (like timer or sweeper/reviewer) or will you all just attack the next thing that hasn't been done?
- Do the four classes need to collaborate with each other, and, if so, what's the best way to do it? Do we think that one reference per idea is enough, or should we have more?
NOTE: for those of you who favored a holistic approach (i.e., beginning and/or studying the whole thing en masse), you'll get your chance. Creating the mind map is just the beginning.
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: start the collaborative process by agreeing on a song to hum in unison. Then get to work. I gave Mr. Jauregui the blog URL, guess we'll find out whether he read it (and if he didn't, someone please show him on a phone)-- Mr. Jauregui, thanks for being a good sport. Oh, and Mr. Jauregui, Trevor gets to Dremel. And Kira gets to leave, if her partner says it's OK and the class agrees. Thanks again.]
What will you need to learn how to do in order to build an online community of five hundred people who follow your blog and join up to prepare for the AP exam?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Form Brain/200 working groups
HW: You know what to do.
We're all here wondering what exactly we are supposed to do here? what is this all pertaining to?
ReplyDeleteOkay so here is what we came up with... We have one head group that will facilitate and basically "control" what goes on. That group is made up of 8 people and already decided. They will have roles like timer, concepts/connectiong, reviewers, and admins. For the rest of the class there will be groups of 4 to 6 (use your partners), some things to consider... However main people you have will be however many paragraphs you have to do. The way those paragraphs of the interview will be divided is on facebook. Post your claim to the group blog we made today in class. Leftover paragraphs will be talked about later. Then within your group you will decide how to break up your sections (through paragraphs or all together) then post those decisions to the facebook group along with your section pick. Good luck everyone!
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ReplyDeleteAfter talking about it as a somewhat functional group, we had a few ideas. We had a few ideas about which medium to use to communicate our ideas, and decided that since we are all so familiar with the blog now, that we would make a class blog that would allow us to collaborate together, as each group completed their assignments. We determined for our class size, because it is so small, that we should divide into 5 groups of 4. Each group should have a supervisor that is responsible for posting to the blog, and reviewing the content submitted to them through e-mail. The other members of the group would then be responsible for completing the assignment. We thought that groups should be responsible for different topics/concepts/thematic elements within the assigned work. As a class, we went so far as to come up with a URL, "heywearecool.blogspot.com and to divide into groups and assign "supervisors" as follows:
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Cody*
Ian J.
Nick
Dannielle
Rachel*
Kari
Ian May
Dania
Shannon*
Chelsea
Hannah
Jessica
Jolissa*
Alaysia
Stephanie
Mitchell
Adrianna*
Rico
Jacob
Nathan
We discussed the idea of working with other classes, and came to somewhat of an agreement that we would be open to that idea after the assignment had been finished because working with others outside the class may prove to be a little difficult. We also decided that working in the same groups as partners was not necessary.
The third period class decided to split up among groups. The class doesn't want the groups to feel like they will have no help therefore there has been a blog set up for the whole third period class to follow (I will post link below). On this blog everyone will be able to ask questions and help others with their tasks.
ReplyDeleteThese are the groups we created and jobs for individual people to take on:
Timers: Jojo and Kira
Reviewers: Candice and Nicole
Quotes: Tyler and Gilbert
Administrators: Darin and Drew
Note taker and blog reporter: Marie
Concepts: Carlos, Emily and Kelly (facilitators)
-Vocab: Lupe, Miranda
-Concepts for 1st half of interview: Patrick F., Hunter and Nathan
-Concepts for 2nd half of interview: Kelli C.,Tori,Chelsey, Mari and Edith
*The rest of the people who were absent please make sure to request to be put into a group or try to give the whole class new groups to make that you'd like to work in.
Third period class, here is the link to the blog that will be used:
http://drprestons3rdperiodclassof2012.blogspot.com/
FOLLOW IT!!! This will be the main source of information for our class.
Our sixth period class decided to break down the concepts and be able to focus on each idea individually. By doing so, the group will be able to teach each other the research that others don't have time to collaborate with.
ReplyDeleteThe groups/partners chosen were based on our partners for class since our class is so small.
Vocabulary: Paul & John
Authors/Titles: Jessica M. & Marisol
Allusions: Betzy, Jessica P., & Annais
Quotes: YunJoo & Rebecca
Diction/Syntax/Tone: Sam, Carson, & Trevor
Time Manager: Alex M.- He will give us time limits of when we will need to have a certain amount of work done and make sure to have us all cooperating.
Administrator: Ryan M.- He will be setting up a Facebook page where our group may be able to connect/communicate with each other. Deadlines and time limits will be posted. Through this website we will also be able to ask and answer questions if needed.
-We did group up some concepts that were relative to each other, just to keep it at a more general level for the members.
Patrick S. is also in the first half concepts of the interview for third period.
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