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Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Weeks 4 & 5 (p)review

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This post is about Collaborative Lesson Planning a course I am co-organizing with Dr. King in Cycle 4 of the Peer 2 Peer University.

Cf. P2PU Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Weeks 2 & 3 Recap and p2pu Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Week 1 Recap

I would like do hat tips to Karen’s “End of wk one in P2PU Mktg course“ post  for inspiring me to put these reviews on my blog, and Justin Hall for exposing me to the “(p)review” idea.

Review: Week 4 | February 16th - 22nd, 2011

Per the syllabus, Joe and Brylie did a good job of talking with their peers on Med’s journal and eachother.

Joe continued to refine his “Implementing Paragogy” lesson plan. In stride, Dr. King continued pushing him to improve. In the same vein, Brylie posted the ESL lesson plan he mentioned earlier.

Aside from responding to posts and wikignoming, for me in week 4 I just about followed through on my “Plan to Finish My Chinese Lesson Plan Resource“. FUN WITH ENGLISH 7B & 8B: Unofficial Teacher’s Handbook was printed, but roughly an hour after my 23:59h. USA CT deadline.

In the forums Brylie also shared a very cool idea of Seven generation sustainability in regards to his Free Culture studies.

Finally something I wanted to do in week 4 was chat with members via IM/phone/whatever and I was able to do so with Brylie and Joe (latter albeit within the context of his class). Have not done that previously in this course, and I wish I had. Not to talk anything away from other asynchronous ways we chat in the course, but real-time communication is just quicker and makes the course more tangible/real.

I know this falls into the “duh” & “obvious” category, but its worth noting.

The live meetings in Joe and Marisa’s course have been my inspiration and I’m going to continue following their lead.

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Week 5 | February 23rd - March 1st, 2011 Preview

To begin, I am going to schedule our first live meeting. It will be this Monday at 18:00 GMT. We will do it in the chat available in our P2PU course.

Additionally I will again try and talk 1-on-1 with everyone to catch up and do my regular e-mails.

As for homework I want to expand on the paragogical direction I started with my Chinese lesson plans. I am going to send everyone to Joe and Brylie’s lesson plans on Wikiversity and ask for comments. Additionally, if possible, I hope they can also edit them. Hopefully this will give us all a sense of “Collabortive Lesson Planning” in action.

Those who have not yet uploaded lesson plans will naturally be encouraged to do so as well.

The reading will be “Collaborative Development Methods” our course document. The goal will be to refine it into a smooth PDF we can publish *in print* as a “Saddle Stich US Trade” (scroll down to “Book Specifications” in Lulu to give to teachers, and for our own vanity.

image: “Learning to swim” taken from the Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, also known as the Trousset encyclopedia, Paris, 1886 – 1891. Found in Old Book Illustrations. Image is in the public domain in the United States, because it was published before 1923 outside the US by a foreign national, check Cornell’s “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States” for more detail.

P2PU Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Weeks 2 & 3 Recap

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Cf. P2PU Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Week 1 Recap

Our six week course is halfway finished now, and we have done some really exciting work, especially compared to where we were at the halfway point last cycle. Speaking of last time, two of the returning members Joe and Brylie have continued their impressive work.first-public-schools-4

Building on his discussions about paragogy in his cycle 3 journal, Joe had a thorough clarifying of the term with Dr. King the past couple of weeks. Additionally he shared an intriguing lesson plan for those interested in implementing paragogy (PDF version / Wikiversity version). Brylie has continued refining the “Music Theory” lesson plan he started last cycle and announced plans to create new lesson plans for people looking to learn the English language “I will begin the English course by identifying/outlining overlapping phonemes between the learners’ native language(s) and the English phoneme inventory.”

Additional developments came as Med started his journal and introduced himself to everyone. He’s an English teacher in Morocco whose also “working on my master degree in Information Communication Technology ( ICT ) in Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada” and who has “a blog called Educational Technology in which i post articles about web2.0 tools and applications educators and teachers need in their daily work.” Celaina also asked Brylie about his work researching the Free Culture movement  which yielded a very original answer from the man, or at least one I’ve never heard before.

Positives noted, there is always room for improvement, beginning obviously with myself. I have not been as active or supportive of the other members the past couple of weeks. I didn’t even announce an optional weekly reading assignment for week 3 as I said would in the syllabus.

Luckily we have a special group so they picked up my slack.

Moving Ahead

On the dawn of week 4 I want to continue with the plan, first by giving out the week’s reading: a NY Times article about Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis. He’s a musician whose music is made entirely by re-mixing the work of his peers. I want members to consider how teaching is usually a similar practice as we re-mix what teachers taught us as well as resources we find in textbooks and online. Ideally they’ll be inspired by Gregg as I was.

In addition I feel one of the faults of the course is being too theoretical and abstract, instead of really digging our teeth into Collaborative Lesson Planning [CLP]. Drawing from Joe and Dr. King’s discussion I am asking students to collaborate on the lesson plans I have shared on Wikiversity. I want their opinions, ideas and ideally wikignoming as I prepare my lessons for print publication. Hopefully this exercise will give some who haven’t published lessons a better idea of how-to, and those who have, a better understanding of how to improve resources already online.

Finally, I am going to try and schedule short online chats via IM, voice or video with each member to hopefully make them feel more connected to the course and, for me, find how I can better assist them. I know participating in a chat with Phillip Schmidt this morning as part of the Open Governance & Learning course I’m a member of made me more invested and motivated to participate.

image: “First Public Schools: The School Master” (scroll down in gallery) from McConnel on U.S. History Images. Public domain.

p2pu Cycle 4 Collaborative Lesson Planning Week 1 Recap

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Some of you may recall last fall I organized a Peer 2 Peer University course on “Collaborative Lesson Planning” [CLP] along with Dr. King. Courses started again at the beginning of January and Dr. King are once again offering our course. Besides us there are 9 members in the course this time, up from 4 last, and as organizer’s we have a much better sense of what’s going on.

School_BoyHeading in to week 1 I outlined the expected work from members in the syllabus, basically: start a journal & introduce yourself, respond to someone else’s journal, write a plagiarism statement and do the weekly reading. We had 3 people start journals & introduce themselves: Joe, Erich & Celaina. In her intro Celaina did the plagiarism statement and slightly later Joe did his as well. The reading was about hacking, which perhaps was a little too abstract (side note I linked to the same article in my writings about Public Domain Education scroll down on the linked-2 post). I feel some people might’ve seen it and wondered what the hell it had to do with CLP, thinking of the popular conception of the term hacking: breaking into someone else’s computer and messing s&*t up. I tried to contextualize it with a Stallman article about hacking, but my suspicion is more people were still thinking about like Julian Assange in a bad way (not how I think of him) when they heard hacker. As I expected however, Joe did respond to the readings with this intriguing book idea he’s had ruminating.

Heading into week 2 I am a little behind. Week 2 began on Wednesday and I didn’t give out the weekly reading assignment till Thursday, nor write this recap till Friday. I still haven’t done personal e-mails/contacts to everyone, something I found to be very important in the last cycle.

Do you have any ideas about how any of this? Please share them in the comments.

image: “School Boy” by, gustavorezende, 2011, dedicated to the public domain. Pub’d in the Open Clipart Library.