Week Two Preview/Options (work in progress, all comments, ideas and suggests are welcome!):

during class:

wiki functionality

-visit with MZHS director Pat Fried in FCT 120

-leave class early to attend the Spring 2009 Civic Engagement Fair, which runs from 10 AM to 2 PM

after class:

-discuss our readings of each other's narratives/blogs. Select a blog and respond, integrate peer writing and links from our LinkPile

-read Service Learning Blake Scott and Melody Bowden

during the week and/or during class week three:

-read about Mt.Zion visit Mt. Zion, write an ethnography, conduct interview.

Follow up your observations by making a recommendations concerning how and where we should begin--which documents need to be prepared first? How might we best organize our process?

Select into a writing pod:

http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/to+this+end+we+invented+variety+in+many+forms?SearchFor=to+this+end&sp=1

grant writing

mentoring program - research and documentation

a. research - a curriculum to follow. Select vailable templates, "remix" for the specific target population.

we, as writers forming a group, also need a "curriculum," or plan to follow. This is how we will use communications technologies, first: to organize and entrain our research/writing.

tasks:

-newsletter

-fact gathering

-sponsors

-handbook: customize and target,

branding Mt. Zion

networking, computer literacy, and educational software - research, FAQs

brochure

Jesse: asks about curriculum development

Rich:

factors for making our writing itineraries:

1. Pat

2. pods need to share with whole class

3. align this civic engagement with academic constraints

next week: