Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tuesday, Jan 31

Proposed agenda–
Read aloud, Pinkney and Pinkney's Duke Ellington (listening, note-taking)
Create a collective biopoem (thinking, speaking, writing)
Pair up and create a biopoem (reading, thinking, writing, sharing)
Reflect metacognitively

Add this date to your calendar–
Thursday, Feb 9 we'll meet in the Student Think Center (3rd floor, International Bldg)
For this Thursday, read this short Design-Thinking piece online 

Pics–

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thursday, Jan 26 Week Two

Proposed agenda–
  1. Design-Thinking (DT) Process stages 1 & 2–Identifying a challenge and brainstorming
  2. TED's 5 ways of listening (listening, note-making, thinking, questioning)
  3. Experiencing listening in different ways
  4. Reflecting together metacognitively
Blog #2 requirements–

  • Read two peer blogs (blog entry #1) and incorporate their thinking into your own posting (i.e., Did you learn anything new about them or the syllabus?)
  • Read Knipper & Duggan's "Writing to learn across the curriculum" article and respond using the blog rubric guidelines in the syllabus 
  • Add a "Links" "Gadget" to your blog and add our course blog as a link
  • *optional–expound more on your listening experience. Tell us about it.
  • *always optional–photos¡
Due dates–
Blog #2 Wed Feb 1 by midnight
Blog online and live by Wed midnight

Vivi with the train depot steel man sculpture