10/17/01

As I prepare for next class I reviewed how you defined collaboration, what you saw as pros & cons of a collaborative process, and your preferences, expectations & fears. Please read and let me know by email before class if I have captured what you said, if I have missed anything important, or if you would like to add or change after reading this with your later thoughts about collaboration and our specific collaborative cyberfeminist house project.

Collaboration defined as:

• working together
• combining different strengths, therefore need to identify strengths
• workly closely especially in discussing ideas
• need to have a give & take mindset
• key characteristics: choice, flexibility, let evolve, be responsible to others
• one type of collaboration, a leader is important (not voted for) but someone who will lead the integration of ideas, be responsible, and oversee everything

Expectations, Preferences, Fears, Solutions:

• Po-Hsien: assign work to everyone; instead leader--the class decides, each has own room
• Lin-Lang: meet together to discuss entrance but each does separate areas of the house
• Nealy: we should understand each others' ideas but do not need to agree. fear that I can not contribute; solution: help each other realize own's strengths
• Adetty: agree with everything said; comfortable working individually or as a group; first thing we need to discuss our ideas; fear--too busy to meet; solution: full group meeting in class
• Joyce: wants to be flexible; enjoys & wants the group exchanges to stimulate

Present your room/house space concept (i.e,, theorize your room--present what it is about--the underlying beliefs you are placing in your room/house space) on Nov. 7 with Dreamweaver or PowerPoint or any other application. Check with me if something other than PP or DW. You may work on the presentation of your idea individually or with another or several. Each insert your completed (or almost completed video) in your presentation. If in PowerPoint you will need to save the video to "Presentation Software." If you want to show it via DreamWeaver save for Web.
 
Theorizing Your Room Presentation Evaluation Criteria: (met all criteria) = 15% (full credit):

• Used time effectively and did not go over the time limit.
• Used electronic &/or digital technology in presentation.
• Prepared with content, visuals, & process (Research and preparation obvious)
• Engaged learners
• Sought evidence of student learning (i.e., an assessment strategy used)
• Instructional presentation evaluation criteria based in Information Processing Theory: (a) gain students attention, (b) activate student prior knowledge, (c) use advanced organizers & organize content information, (d) employ active learning, i.e., present information so it is acted upon or responded to by students in some way, (e) provide meaningfulness, (f) use visual imagery, and (g) allow for individual differences among students.