CI 550
Sample Syllabus
Sample Lesson
Introduction
Big Ideas
Your Learning Tasks

Your Learning Tasks

This unit's readings:

Recall that a significant goal of our class is to engage in collaborative learning as we develop a learning community. A primary way by which we can accomplish this is by engaging in thoughtful, interactive online discussions! There are a variety of different forums which we will use throughout the course: small group discussion forums (DFs), whole group DFs), eBase Group DFs, and eLive! sessions. In this unit we will experience eBase Group DFs and a whole group DF.

  1. Use this week to decide your eBase Group’s book club selection. Have these conversations in the Unit 1 folder DF labeled "Book Club Conversations” specifically for your eBase Group. By Tuesday at midnight, have one person from your group email me with the group’s choice. See the syllabus for a list of possible "Book Club” selections.
  2. After completing the readings for this week, share, by Friday, with your eBase Group, your response to the question, What is curriculum? (Post responses in the Unit 1 folder DF labeled "What is Curriculum” specifically for your eBase Group.) As a way of refining what curriculum work means for each of us - who, what, where, when and why - revisit the definitions and questions provided above and Walker 's foundations of curriculum work. Generate or otherwise provide a definition that resonates with you. Consider expressing some of your ideas and responses in visual or other forms (e.g., concept map).  () Read your peers' responses, and provide substantive reactions to their writing.
  3. By Sunday, have one member of your eBase group post a summary of your definitions and conversations to the whole group DF (try to have this posted by 2:00 pm).
  4. From Sunday afternoon until the end of this unit (Tuesday at midnight), Read other eBase Group summaries. Respond to their conversations. Make connections to your eBase Group conversations. Challenge, question, and/or extend conversations.

Preview of next week's topic and focus question: