Theme:  Context - Institutional and Course

Goals:

1. Review institutional context portfolio deliverable
2. Understand other participant's institutional context
3. Better understanding of course portfolios, identifying usefulness of components
   

1. Read at least 3 examples of portfolios
2. Read Cerbin, 2001 article
3. Collect thoughts and questions about portfolios to be discussed at next meeting
4. Add picture and introductory information to DCCE site under participants' page
   
5. Write up Institutional Context portfolio deliverable and bring 4 hardcopies to next meeting

Meeting Agenda:

• Odds and Ends from last meeting
• Small group review of institutional context portfolio deliverable
• Presentation of institutional context, complete Context Comparison Chart
• Discuss Course Context
• National Computer Science Education Week
• Discuss course portfolio examples
• Looking to the next session
  

Meeting Resources:
    Context Comparison Chart

Assignments:

• Readings

1. Read Schulman:  "Course Anatomy:  The Dissection and Analysis of Knowledge through Teaching" (attached below)
   

• Other

1. Revise Institutional Context portfolio deliverable and post to DCCE website
2. Write up Course Context portfolio deliverable and bring 4 hardcopies for reviewers to next meeting  (or one combined version of context). 
3. For the next meeting, we're going to be focussed on the content of what we teach.  You should bring a document with you that describes and justifies your course content.

                Questions which may jog your thinking:

• What are your course goals?
• What do you want students to learn / accomplish?
• What skills do you want them to acquire?
• What practices?
• What knowledge?