{"id":74,"date":"2016-01-22T20:53:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/?p=74"},"modified":"2016-01-22T20:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:53:26","slug":"keeping-the-cart-behind-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/2016\/01\/22\/keeping-the-cart-behind-the-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the cart behind the horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew! Another F2F almost done and I\u2019m once again feeling inspired and overloaded with ideas. Thanks so much to all of the coaches and facilitators – @jmedved<\/a>\u00a0@lmcbeth<\/a> @ddoucet<\/a> @gnichols<\/a> @shelleythomas<\/a>\u00a0– who planned this day for us and put so much time, energy, and thought into creating a space for collaboration, reflection, and inspiration. <\/span><\/p>\n

The storyboarding process that we went through in the morning was my favourite part of the day. What steps would be necessary to put my action plan into place? What would they all involve? <\/span><\/p>\n

I started with the idea of curating playlists of good content for each area of my course (e.g. using Illustrator for creating vector artwork, using InDesign for layout, etc.). Step 2 was to come up with a way of tracking and assessing students, using DocAppender, of course. As I continued to come up with storyboard steps, I realized at Step 4 that my order of operations was completely off. I need to do significant research into project based learning and design thinking in order to restructure my course so completely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What started as my first step in the process became my last step by the time I completed my storyboard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While at times it is wonderful to learn something new and jump in with both feet, I think that in order for this action plan to be successful, I absolutely have to put in the time to: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. learn more about design thinking about project-based learning<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. come up with a list of core competencies that all members of my class will have to learn before embarking on the personalized structure of the course<\/li>\n
  3. develop a structure, expectations, and timeline to frame the year<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. develop a plan for assessment, including forms, rubrics, and schedule for conferencing with students<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. curate playlists and develop resources for different skills areas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What I had originally written down as step one became my last step before implementation. If that doesn\u2019t speak to the power of Cohort 21, I don\u2019t know what does!<\/span><\/p>\n

    Thanks to @ptotera<\/a>, @lmustard<\/a> @chazzard<\/a> @blng<\/a> @maragona<\/a>\u00a0@mjohn<\/a> for being there to bounce ideas off of and for challenging me today!<\/p>\n

    PS – Check out what trended in Toronto today!<\/p>\n

    \"#cohort21\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Whew! Another F2F almost done and I\u2019m once again feeling inspired and overloaded with ideas. Thanks so much to all of the coaches and facilitators – @jmedved\u00a0@lmcbeth @ddoucet @gnichols @shelleythomas\u00a0– who planned this day for us and put so much time, energy, and thought into creating a space for collaboration, reflection, and inspiration. The storyboarding … Continue reading “Keeping the cart behind the horse”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferweening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}