Discussing the Drafts of Your Inquiry Project Report

Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful participation in today’s peer editing session.  Hopefully, the feedback you received will help as you refine your paper and get it as near as humanly possible to 1499 words.  No small feat.

Just a reminder that I am assessing your piece.  As per the EDUC 310 Course Outline, your project should reflect an emerging ability to:

• Engage substantively with a topic as reflected in careful reading of the literature and an understanding of significant issues, perspectives and assumptions
• Position one self in relation to ideas discussed
• Consider educational issues critically
• Relate one’s learning to curriculum and pedagogy

So you can marvel at my chalkboard writing prowess, here’s a photo (courtesy of Devin) of the criteria from class:

Outlining the Presentations

I took the last few minutes of each group’s meeting time to go over the shape of the Inquiry Project Oral/Multi-Media Presentation and the One-Minute Inquiry Project Synthesis.  Here are the details:

Presenters

Monday, 21 February 2011 – SCARFE 210 from 10:00 am – Noon

• Amber
• Melanie
• Christian
• Lou
• Alice
• Kat K
• Jennifer
• Devin
• Ian
• Amanda
• Farisha
• Miguel
• Leanne

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 – SCARFE 1003 rom 10:00 am – Noon

• Sarah
• Jeremy
• Ross
• Kat M
• Jenna
• Aaron
• Lars
• Shaun
• Caitlin
• Maria
• Tyrel
• Sally

Schedule

Each day will follow the same schedule.  During the concurrent presentations, 4 students will be presenting at the same time.  Non-presenters will choose who to see after hearing a short blurb about each project:

• Concurrent Presentation #1 – 20 minutes
• Concurrent Presentation #2 – 20 minutes
• Break – 10 minutes
• Concurrent Presentation #3 – 20 minutes
• One-Minute 3*2*1Synthesis From All Presenters – 20 minutes

Guidelines for the Inquiry Project Oral/Multi-Media Presentation

• GOAL: Highlight the NEED TO KNOW points from your Inquiry Project for your audience
• 15 minutes to present + 5 minutes for Q & A
• Must include a visual component (mind map, diorama, puppet show, diagram, graph,…)
• Suggested Format: What? So What? Now What?
  • What?
    • What’s your question?
    • Where did your question come from? (Purpose)
    • What did you do? (Approach)
  • So What?
    • What did you learn?
    • What must TCs know about your findings?
  • Now What?
    • Where will you go from here?
    • Where to look for more info?
    • Where should TCs go from here?

One-Minute 3*2*1 Synthesis

This one-minute blurb is a quick review of your presentation for those who did not hear it in class.  It should include the following information from your Inquiry Project:

• 3 – Big Ideas
• 2 – Points to Ponder
• 1 – Action for TCs to Take on Prac…or Beyond

Submission of Inquiry Project Papers and 3*2*1 Synthesis Blurbs

Please submit your paper and your 3*2*1 blurb to me via email on or before Wednesday, 23 February 2011.

Here’s how all the Presentation & Synthesis info looked like on the board (courtesy of Devin’s Android phone):

Thanks to Devin for both photos.

Cheers,

– Lawrence