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Workshop Program


Thursday, July 15

8:30-10:30

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:20 Disciplinary Team Meetings: exchange reviews, discuss materials and surrounding issues, outline important concepts for supporting materials

11:20-12:00 Individual Work Time: reflect on changes and initiate development of supporting materials needed for individual activites; website development help available. Review Criteria

12:00 Lunch: Informal Discussion "What do you want to get from this workshop?"

1:00-2:30 Whole Group Meeting-Goal: Set Activity Template

  • Progress reports and comments
  • Reflections on common elements in activity pages
  • Identify key challenges and issues crossing all activities, relationship to equations and model pages

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:30 Whole Group Meeting: Brainstorm equations and model modules

3:30-6:30 Individual Working Time: upper division activities into CMS with first draft of supporting materials finished by Friday AM
(Disciplinary teams schedule their own meetings if needed)
Collect Road Check at 5:00

6:30 Dinner

Evening work as needed


Friday, July 16

8:30-9:15 Whole Group Meeting:

  • Issues arising from yesterdays work
  • Revisit equations and models-Consider basic rules for site structure

9:15-11:15 Equations and Models module teams meet separately to make a plan and start working

  • Things you might want to do:
    • Brainstorm at a more detailed level
    • Create as a group a top page
    • Surf to see what else is already available
  • Things you must do:
    • Make inspiration diagram or a site outline and assign tasks
    • Create proposed page structure and navigation with at least 4 pages
    • Experiment with at least 4 pages
    • Talk to Cathy about your plan

11:15-12:00 Whole Group meeting:

  • Turn in inspiration diagram or outline and task assignments
  • Share inspiration diagrams
  • Consider common elements/structure for both modules

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Disciplinary team meetings to review progress and plans--develop plan for reviewing revised activities

2:00-3:00 Module teams meet to review progress and plans

3:00-6:30 Work time to develop modules and activities
collect Road Check at 5:00

6:30 Dinner

Evening work as needed


Saturday, July 17

8:30-9:30 Disciplinary Teams: complete final review of activities and supporting materials

9:30-10:30 Whole Group: Discussion of Activities and Supporting Materials

  • Overarching or important comments, challenges, or themes
  • Implications for common elements in activities and supporting materials
  • Implications for modules
  • Discussion of intro activities

10:30 Individual Work Time: Finish final draft upper division activities and first draft intro activity

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Whole Group: Review and discussion of modules

2:00-4:00 Work time to complete modules

4:00-5:30 Share final modules, develop recommendations for next steps, make site live.

7:00 Dinner at Blue Horse Saloon