Collaborative Lesson Planning
Syllabus

Version 0.4 / Changelog in the Addendum

Course Organizers:

• Charles Jeffrey Danoff
• Dr. Marjorie King

Course Description:

The course is designed to give educators the tools to collaboratively plan lessons. Practically that means we will cover how-to publish lesson plans online. Within that we will go over ways to make them more attractive for others to use/re-mix as well as tackle philosophical and copyright questions. We will also evolve and refine the document "Collaborative Development Methods" to teach others how they can collaboratively plan lessons. So doing, we will build off the work done by Cycle 3 Collaborative Lesson Planning members.

Expecations for Members:

1. Start and then update their journal in the forums weekly.
2. Weekly comment on and question other students in their journals.
3. Publish multiple lesson plans or related materials online and licensed for re-use.
4. Update and improve the "Collaborative Development Methods" document regularly.

Grading Scale:

The grading scale reflects all student participation in group discussions and  the course objectives.

• S= Satisfactory
• U= Unsatisfactory
• I= Incomplete

Plagiarism Statement:

Each member should write a one-sentece entry in their journal confirming that the work they are doing is their own, and if borrowed from others, properly attributed.

Schedule:

• Week 1 | January 26th - February 1st, 2011
  • Start your journal and write a self-introduction entry which also states what you hope to accomplish in this course.
  • Respond to at least 1 other member's self-introduction entry.
  • Write an entry about the plagarism statement, saying your work is your own.

• Week 2 | February 2nd - 8th, 2011
  • Publish a lesson plan online.
  • Write an entry about 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.
  • Respond to at least 1 entry of another member.

• Week 3 | February 9th - 15th, 2011
  • Publish another lesson plan online.
  • Write an entry about the process:
    • Different second time around?
    • Was it fun?
    • For another teacher looking to use your resources, is this one harder or easier for them compared to your first one?
    • What questions do you have?
    • Includ a hyprelink.
  • Respond to at least 1 entry of another member.

• Week 4 | February 16th - 22nd, 2011
  • Review the two lessons you have published, then make them better and write an entry about what you did.
  • Drawing on your experiences, add to the "Collaborative Development Methods" document and write an entry detailing what you wrote.
  • Respond to at least 1 entry of another member.

• Week 5 | February 23rd - March 1st, 2011
  • Flexible, depending on where everyone is at and what they want to accomplish.

• Week 6 | March 2nd - March 8th, 2011
  • Ibid.

Addendum

Changelog:

Version 0.1
27 August 2010 * Wrote a skeleton outline of the course on p2pu.org.

1. Introduction to the idea of Collaborative Lesson Planning and Wiki Code Primer.
2. Upload your first lesson plans, start document about how-to collaborate on lesson plans.
3. Continue uploading and editing the document.
4. Continue uploading and editing the document.
5. Transform uploaded plans into a useful resource.
6. Put the finishing touches on the resource and collectively finish the how-to document.

Version 0.2
9 September 2010
* Started the rich text format version of the syllabus by creating the document.

Version 0.21
11 September 2010
* Expanded upon the original syllabus going into greater detail for each week.

Version 0.22 (PDF)
11 September 2010
* Titled the "Schedule" and right formatted the weeks.
* Added "Why Wikiversity?"
* Changed the Week 1 homework.
* Decided to remove "Why Wikiversity?" (Students can publish where they want)

Why Wikiversity?
The instructor has a previous relationship with the wiki, so he has a personal interest in its success and knows its publishing culture. The licensing on Wikiversity is clearly CCASA, which protects the teachers work and clearly states how others can re-use them in many other ways. Its familial relation to Wikipedia and the Wikimdeia foundation also lead the instructor to believe it has a better chance of long term success for certain uses (e.g. publishing lesson plans) as opposed to alternatives. Finally, Wikiversity has a high participating number of users.

Of course, the student also has a right to publish their work wherever they please, and does not have to use Wikiversity at all.

Version 0.23
12 September 2010
* Added Marjorie King to the list of instructors.
* Changed "write" to "right" in the last sentence of "Why Wikiversity?" mistake was caught by Dr. King.

Version 0.3
23 September 2010