March 9: How to share your draft project today

Hello everyone! Today is the due date for your draft, in-progress culminating project. Here’s what to do, by midnight tonight Pacific Time:

• Please share a link to your in-progress project slide deck on your personal course blog today. For those working with a partner, both partners should share the same link in each of your blogs. Please make sure that I can access the link so I can see your slides!

• You should be partway finished with creating your project slides at this point. 

(Reiterating what I mean by ‘partway finished’:)

• Your slides should now include some explanation of what your topic is, why you chose it (including how it connects with your own interests), a brief discussion of your background research (likely a few top highlights from your annotated bibliography), and a description of your pedagogical design for your new activity/ lesson sequence/ teaching experiment/ workshop, whichever you have chosen to work on.

I expect that most people are still in the midst of trying out these new activities with their classes or communities or family and friends, so it is perfectly fine to have a slide or two saying “results from piloting the project will go here”, or words to that effect.

Similarly, I expect that a few slides with conclusions may be added later, so a placeholder slide will be fine there.

That’s it! 

Looking forward very much to seeing how the projects-in-progress are going. I will send you a brief email with comments on your draft projects this week — and I am still sending overall comments on coursework to everyone as well.

All the best!

Susan