Timeline of Activities

The following Timeline & Tasks outline the Scope of the Projec.

  Participants are in BOLD and {Outcomes are in italics}

Sept 21:  Kickoff of 3 Day Game Institute with Ruben Puentedura which will be attended by the CSI Mentors.  Following up (November 2 and December 7)

{Increase understanding of the roles of games in Education by CSI Mentors who will use this knowledge in designing of Challenges and additional professional development opportunities for other participants}

Oct 2010: CSI Mentors work with VTVLC to create a CSI Virtual Space

{A virtual space for mentors to post challenges and for students to participate in CSI Challenges Both students and teachers will gain informationa fluency by learning to use an LMS to extend learning outside the classroom}

Oct 15, 2010: CSI Project Kick-off at Tech Jam 2010 - Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce

{CSI Mentors offer CSI Challenge #1 – create a Virtual Version of One Exhbit aimed at increasing awareness of Creativiy and Innovation in industry, collge, and careers.  Advisors and Teacher/Leaders  organize student attendance and participation.

Nov 2010: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge # 2 (featuring Sketchup)

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students learn Sketchup to complete creativity challenge.  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

Dec 2010: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge # 3 (Interactive Fiction using Scratch from  M.I.T. Kindergarten

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students learn Scratch  to complete creativity challenge.  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

Jan 2011: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge #4  (Game Design Challenge & Field Trip of  Champlain Collge

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students increase awarenss of college and career opportuntieis.  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

Feb 2011: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge #5  (Game Narrative Challenge from Young Writers Project

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students increase student and teacher awareness of game narrative and the writing process Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

Mar 2011: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge #6  (Engineering Thought Challenge from UVM College of Mathematics and Engineering  and field trip to Annual Engineering Day Event

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students Increase student and teacher awareness of engineering design and thinking, industry, careers, and colleges  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

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Apr 2011: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge #7  (Open Source Community Challenge and workshops at VT Open Source Conference

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students Increase awareness of open source software and community model to promote creativity and innovation.  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

May 2011: CSI Mentors Post CSI Challenge #8  (Scratch Day Challenge with Scratch student  showcase at Dynamic Landscape Conference

{TeacherLeaders, Advisors, and students reflect and represent the use of Scratch to promote creativity and innovation in education.  Post artifacts to Portfolio and link to Virtual Space (LMS).  Reflect on Creativity and Innovation Prompts.

June  2011: TeacherLeader/Student Team showcase at ISTE Conference in Philadelphia

{ Student Team & Teacher/Leader  with the strongest CSI Portfolio attend and showcase work at  ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia.

June  2011 CSI/Mentors/TeacherLeader/Student Team design a 3 Day Game Institute

{ PD Opportunity open to other Vermont Educators featuring best practices and tools from year long inquiry will be designed and advertised by June 2011 to be offered in Summer of 2011)

Yearlong Oct 2010 – June 2011 Ongoing professional development and inquiry by CSI Mentors and Teacher Leaders.

The mentors/project leaders will use their knowledge from the 3 Day Game Institute PD with Ruben to work with consultants from P4 (Pedagogy, Play, Pixels, and Project Based Learning) from Indiana University to design additional professional developmen modules for educators participating in the CSI project. These modules will be made available through the VTVLC LMS.  The PD outcome will include a taxonomy of resources aligned to the NET-S standards (i.e. learning challenges, strategies, assessment models, game genres, creativity tools) as well as documentation of the year-long inquiry into integrating creativity and innovation into our schools). Final PD activity will be the design of a 3 day Teacher Game Institute that integrates best practices from what we learned throughout the year.  The “new”  3 Day Institute will be designed and advertised by June 2011 to be offered in Summer 2011.

Students will be asked to document their process and final solution to the CSI Challenges using either  Moodle or an e-portfolio tool (i.e. Wikis, Google Sites, etc) that is linked to the CSI Challenge via Moodle.  

The artifacts created by students to meet the CSI Challenges will also be used for development and calibration of Assessment Models that can be used to address Creativity and Innovation Standards.