Monday, May 9, 2011
Unique Perspective
So as I'm thinking about how to submit all of my work for this grant; I'm left wondering if I'll have to reinvent the wheel, again. For this class I created an entirely new curriculum that I modified and worked through this year that is now a sleek and sexy curriculum that is both doable for the student that walks into my class with a tech background as well as for the student who comes to me with nothing. I guess my big question is, does my current curriculum meet the standards of this grant? I've developed both a server based syllabus location and a Google webpage for at home viewing. What I'm looking at here is the fact that my class isn't really a lesson 1,2, 3, etc. My class is somewhere that all the work for the trimester is given at the beginning of the term and students are expected to work independently on each project until all 7 have been completed. This makes the whole "unit" idea very troubling. My "unit" is actually my curriculum. I suppose that you could say I have an Office unit and a "separate tools" unit, but I view this curriculum as something that does not build on itself too much. Granted, it would help to do the Word section before the Power Point because there is some word processing involved in Power Point, but with my Jing videos, examples, and rubrics I have not had a student have any problems solving my 7 challenges while doing them in whatever order they wish. My question is, what do I need to modify in my course to make it fit into the requirements for this grant? Do the documents the students see count as my lesson? I guess not because there are no standards on them . . .
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