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Have had almost no student interest so far. I re-wrote the syllabus and expanded it immensely, additionally I removed the sign-up task. Both of those were not very appealing.

Brylie Oxley's picture
Brylie Oxley
Sun, 2010-09-12 00:09

I'm interested in your course Charles! :-)

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Sun, 2010-09-12 02:18

Very happy to hear Brylie. I'm still having trouble figuring out how to add you to the course, but hopefully it will be resolved soon. Any thoughts on the new syllabus?

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Charles Danoff
Sun, 2010-09-12 02:22

OK, Brylie I figured it out. I am very excited to say you are officially a member of the course now. Turns out it was really easy. Looking forward to getting started.

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algevis vinci
Wed, 2010-11-10 14:17

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Irene Martínez's picture
Irene Martínez
Mon, 2010-09-13 11:38

I'm following the course too :-)
I'm still getting used to the p2pu online campus and I'm not sure what the comunication mechanisms are. I suppose that the messages written via "contact" are for personal questions and that the "forum" is for making general questions, aren't they?

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Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-09-15 13:26

I think you have it right, Irene. Messages via contact are for personal use and the forum is for general questions. In general though, if anyone has a question it's likely others will too, so using the forum may be more helpful for the group in general.

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Irene Martínez
Wed, 2010-09-15 17:50

Thanks :-)

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Rurik Nackerud
Wed, 2010-09-15 01:19

All for this course. Is anyone else teaching science or language arts?

Nice timing with the class - it fits well with my worksample and associated entertainment in grad school and teaching at the community college.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-09-15 13:29

Rurik, I'm teaching English as a Foreign Language, and Irene is teaching science. Glad to hear the timing works well for you.

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Rurik Nackerud
Sun, 2010-09-19 21:12

Perfect - I may take reckless advantage of both of your feedback.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Mon, 2010-09-20 23:12

Please do.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Mon, 2010-09-20 23:10

Week 1 Homework, sent to members on September 15th.

Hello all:

Welcome to the first week of Collaborative Lesson Planning. I am really excited to have all of you in the class. Below is the reading and homework for the first week. It looks like a lot, but shouldn't take more than fifteen to twenty minutes. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.

Additonally, I'd like to announce the addition of Dr. Marjorie King as another instructor for our class. She'll be helping with the general class organization and with feedback on the lessons.

Reading:
* Syllabus
** http://p2pu.org/node/5574/document/5575

* Introduction to Copyright Licenses
** CC Licenses: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses
** Public Domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_domain&oldid=384868836

* Instructor's Speech on Collaborative Lesson Planning
** http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Charles_Jeffrey_Danoff/...

Chose a license for your work and then find somewhere to publish.

Start your journal online in the class forums with the following entries.
* Self-introduction.
* Justification for choice of license.
* Reactions to:
** Syllabus, including suggestions
** The instructor's speech.
* Respond to at least one of your classmates's journal entries.

Addtionally:
* Alternative explanation of CC Licenses
** http://creativecommons.org/videos/mayer-and-bettle2

Note: In the original e-mail "general" in the second paragraph was misspelled, hat tip to Dr. King for finding the mistake.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Thu, 2010-09-23 06:37

Week 2 Homework E-Mail

Sent on September 22nd, 2010

Hello all:

Congratulations on a very successful week one. Irene, Joe and Rurik started awesome journals in the forums. Now that we've chosen a license and started our journals, its time to start publishing our plans. You will publish one online with the license you've chosen and then document the process in your journal.

Please note, you are supposed to comment on at least one of your classmate's journal entries. Nobody did this last week, and this is an important part of getting a discussion going.

**********

On two unrelated notes:

1 - What would you think of doing a class session via skype or some other chat room method?
2 - I have attached a notice from p2pu admin's they wanted me to pass on to everyone, it's at the bottom of this message.

**********

Week 2 Homework

1 Publish one lesson plan online.

2 Write an entry with your thoughts on the process.
** Easy or difficult?
** What could make it easier?
** Do you think your lesson plan would be usable by another teacher in your field?
** How long did it take you to publish your plan?
** What questions do you have?
** Include a hyperlink to the published plan.

3 Respond to at least one of your classmate's journal entries.

ALSO: Take a look at the updated version of the syllabus, coming tomorrow, and let me know if you have any suggestions.

**********

from: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-new-courses/browse_thread/thread/69b...

Pleas *broadcast *the following instructions to your course
participants: Although
you may receive emails from the P2PU system with forum comments in them, you
should respond to these messages in the actual forum space on the course
page in p2pu.org - that way, you can be 100% sure that your message will
reach the right people. If you would like to reduce the amount of email you
receive, please follow these instructions: If you would like to slow the
flow of course-related messages down, please take a moment to adjust your
notifications setting here: http://p2pu.org/user/me/notifications From that
page, you can click on the "Subscriptions" button, tick all of the
appropriate boxes, and choose a frequency option from the drop-down menu. We
suggest "daily," or "twice daily."

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-09-29 23:34

third through review
(a.k.a. Reviewing the course 1/3 of the way through.)

At first I thought my course was doomed, but a few clicks on the admin button later I realized the course was beginning better than I had hoped. I had four members and the addition of Dr. Marjorie King as a fellow instructor. Two of the members even submitted lesson plans to me as I requested as part of the sign-up task. Heading into the first week I did a very thorough revision of the syllabus to clear things up for myself, and I hoped the other members.

The first week went really well. Got three members starting their own journals, and responding to most of the readings or questions I asked of them. Heading into the second week I did another revision of the syllabus including a grading criteria and then sent out a homework assignment that was short, but longwinded.

Second week did not turn out so well, only had one student write in their journal. I am not sure, but here are my theories for why this happened:

1 - Members have their own lives and are busy. (95% likely)
2 - Members have gotten bored by the course. (4%)
3 - Adding confusing grading criteria to the syllabus scared off the students. (.01%)
4 - My long winded homework e-mail turned off students who would do the work, because I made a little bit seem like a lot (.08%)
5 - Something outside the scope of my imagination (.01%)

The biggest goal is to get students participating. While I have some pie-in-the-sky hopes about what this class might accomplish including a printed-physical document on how to collaboratively plan lessons, none of that matters if the students are not involved.

So, for week 3 I am going to send out a concise, short e-mail asking students to check-in, let me as organizer know how I can help, and (maybe I shouldn't ask, but I shall) if they can send or edit one of their lesson plans.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-09-29 23:43

Week 3 Homework E-Mail

Sent on September 29th, 2010 via broadcast function

Hello Collaborative Lesson Planning Members:

Have simplified this week's homework:

1 - Check-in with a short forum post and let everyone know your status.

Optional

* Let me know via the forums or e-mail how I can help you.
* Publish a lesson plan, or if you have already done so, edit your lesson plan.

Thanks, looking forward to continuing to work together.

- Charles

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Sat, 2010-10-09 06:42

Half-Way-Ish Review

My apologies that this review is coming a few days late. Week three and into the beginning of week four has seen the course go off in two new directions, one of which I never imagined. The one I did imagine is Dr. King has started her journal [1], and added a insightful self-introduction. The other is Joe's post [2] about how he's decided to declare his course dead and then engages in a discussion about the values of paragogy [3], as opposed to peda- and andragogy.

No new lesson plans up, but overall the course is progressing and evolving. As a change, I am going to personally e-mail each student this week with homework as an attempt to get more folks involved.

[1]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/9415#comment-4054

[2]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/10209

[3]
http://metameso.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/pilot

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Thu, 2010-10-14 05:28

Week 4 Thoughts

Big development in week 4 was Brylie. She started her journal with a long and thoughtful post [1]. Additionally, she began a document on Collaborative Development Methods [2]. Its the kind of document I was envisioning in the syllabus and its awesome she went out and got it started. I have added a few thoughts and plan on continuing to do so, I hope other students will add.

Contacting students via individual e-mails, as opposed to a group e-mail, garnered far more responses. I heard from everyone in the class this past week privately, if not publicly. I will do it again this week.

For homework, I will keep it simple, diverting from what I planned in the syllabus, instead asking students simply to contribute to their journals and/or the class document.

[1]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/10259

[2]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/document/10260

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-10-20 23:14

Week 5 October 13th - 19th, 2010
Review

Week 5 was easily the most successful week thus far. Brylie added an excellent post to her journal [1], including a link to a lesson plan she started. Then she took a huge step I've been hoping to see for a while by going over to a peer's journal (Joe's) and adding a really helpful comment [3], asking him to be more pig-like (in a productive way [4]). Joe, in turn, commented on her journal [5] and followed her lead publishing his own lesson plan [6]. Closing it out, Dr. King got in on the action, sharing some advise with Brylie [7]

This type of interaction leading to "collaborative lesson planning" was the point of the whole course, and its very encouraging to see it actually happening. Over the past two weeks reaching out to students with individual e-mails, as opposed to generalized ones has really helped (I believe), and/or the students intrinsic motivation has led them individually to contribute more and as that's occurred and seeeing others do the same has a snowball-type effect.

Now the question comes, how to finish up the final week. For this week's homework, I'd like to see some sort of wrap-up journal entry by individual students, and an addition of some sort to the document Brylie started "Collaborative Development Methods" [8].

[1]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/10259#comment-4493
[2]
http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Brylie/LessonPlans&oldi...
[3]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/9415#comment-4497
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_%28development%29&oldid=...
[5]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/10259#comment-4498
[6]
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Arided/Paragogy
[7]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/forums/10259#comment-4544
[8]
http://p2pu.org/general/node/5574/document/10260

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-10-27 23:56

Week 6 Review

Last week of the course went well. Joe and Brylie added to their journals, and Dr. King made helpful suggestions to both of them for improving in the future. I went into Joe and Brylie's lesson plans on Wikiversity and tweaked them to make them easier for a new person to understand/contextualize, and incorporate the work they have done on this course into the documents themselves.

Within the next couple of days I will privately send out grades to each student and see if I can solicit feedback for how the course can be improved if (as I hope) I am able to run it again.

Thanks everyone whose been involved from start to finish for making this course a success.

Charles Danoff's picture
Charles Danoff
Fri, 2010-10-29 21:59

Sent out the grades to all students privately. The Grade Scale on the syllabus didn't fit what actually transpired in the course, so I adjusted accordingly. I gave out two A's and two B-'s. With that the course is now officially complete. I invite all participants to continue to use this course site as long as its available to improve materials here. Additionally, I obviously hope all of you continue work on your own quests in other venues and if the course is offered again I hope you can sign-up once more.

Finally, I would like to note that thomfuji55 [1] expressed interest in the course, but didn't sign-up until the final week, though he did send me some helpful lesson plans. If the course is run again, I will give him some extra credit for these efforts.

[1]
http://p2pu.org/users/thomfuji55

marjorie  king's picture
marjorie king
Thu, 2010-10-28 19:34

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the course. I enjoyed it. Dr. King