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Choose your own adventure - content and task
Published: 10/03/11
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Problem of practice
Maintaining engagement with online material, as well as keeping students on task while they are working asynchronously.
Solution
Students complete 3 out of 9 thematic units of their choice based on interest. Also implementation of a rotating table-system wherein students choose what task/table they want to work at for each day of the week and must hit skills and discussion.
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Damn, the audio is terrible. I didn't even realize it was that bad. Any viewers of this video, just turn the volume down and it doesn't peak as much. Sorry about that.
Masterful stuff
I must say your staccato delivery on top of this highly substantive, studied, and thoughtful curriculum design work has me pretty impressed. Grinning a bearing through the poor audio, I'm nevertheless convinced you are really surfing the toolset to maximally serve kids, and you articulate a great vision for both content and pragmatic management of young people and tasks.
A few offerings:
1) The canned iLearn video content available via NBC Learn and Discovery may prove to be a great supplement to the great stuff you're already doing once you migrate from Wikispaces over. Not sure what content licenses Olympus has, or the long-term costs or prospects of including licensed content in your course, but it's probably worth a try. NBC Learn, in particular, gives you vintage news footage which can provide yet another touchstone for primary source analysis.
2) Thinking Ken Burns' Prohibition documentary could inspire an awesome choose-your-own US module offering that I would have wanted to take in high school. Find a way to see the latest Ken Burns documentary if you can. So many well-motivated avenues to explore vis a vis the treatment of drug offenders, civil liberties, and law, generally.