Details on expectations for your draft culminating project (due March 9 on your personal blog(s) for our class)

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 Hello everyone! By now you should all have received feedback from me on your culminating project outlines and annotated bibliographies. I really enjoyed reading about your projects, and I'm impressed by the scope and originality of your ideas!

Most people have now successfully added any revisions or clarifications I requested on some of the outlines (requests sent to you in an email on feedback on your project outline), and I think everyone is ready to carry on to the next phases of the project.

And a PS: I will be sending each of you an email with feedback on all your work in the course so far over the next week!

Here are the expectations for the project draft, which is due Monday March 9 at midnight on your personal blog(s) for our class. (We will also have our next Zoom Screenside Chat session next Saturday, February 28 from 9:30 - 10:45 AM Vancouver time, so you can ask further questions in person there, or by email any time!

• The project draft should be your final project presentation slides, in as complete a form as you can have ready by March 9. 
• I expect that many people will still be at the point of testing out their project activities with students, family, friends and/or neighbours at this point. That's fine! If there is still missing documentation that isn't ready yet, just leave some placeholder slides saying what you plan to add before the final project deadline on March 24 -- for example, a placeholder slide might say, "Video of my class working on their fractal sculpture to be added by March 15", or something similar.
• Your conclusions and suggestions for future development of the project will likely be added after March 9 as well.

Your slides in the project draft should include: 

1. your topic; 
2. the insights gained from your literature review that support and scaffold this new project; 
3. your personal connections and positionality as a researcher and educator with this project; 
4. the details about your proposed implementation of the project, including connections to mathematical thinking and exploration; and 
5. details about how you are planning (or have already completed) a try-out or pilot of your project with other people.

To be added between the March 9 draft project and March 24 completed project:

1. An account (with photos, possibly videos, and commentary) about how your project actually played out when you tried it out with others.
2. Conclusions and suggestions for fellow educators on future development of the project, in light of your reading, thinking, designing and piloting the project for the first time.
3. Any other amendments and insights based on what you learn from class readings, writing and discussions as well as my feedback, between March 9 and 24.

Remember that the final project will be submitted on the class blog, in the form of a video-recorded slide show with your voice(s) doing the presentation. After March 9, I will add a how-to post on our class blog for doing those video recordings in several different ways. (It's not difficult...!)

Cheers

Susan