Let's make this the best session yet. You should understand why we think that helping others is a central part of your education. The technology can support new forms of collaboration, but knowing HOW to work together is a human skill. You are learning how to facilitate collaborative work while you use technology to mediate it. One part of this is to be able to talk about your collective work in ways that lead to improvement. This means being comfortable enough with others to be able to question what they doing, to suggest other possibilities and to willing to have others challenge your ideas. Avoiding all conflict is not productive for collaborative work, and neither is telling people they are wrong or misguided. But learning how to help support people as they struggles with ideas is the heart of working collaboratively.
In this final session, unlike others, we are putting you together in groups that are as simlar as possible. These are the groups you will be presenting in at the Conference. Please go to the Mindmaps and follow the directions for posting your site.
The interaction takes place in learning circles which meet weekly together and every other week with the faculty advisor for the learning circle. The learning circle model takes place in phases. This is how the phases map onto circle interaction this semester.
Learning Circle 1- Action Research with Students
Learning Circle 2: Action research with Professional Educators
Learning Circle 3- Action Research with Professional Educators
Learning Circle 4- In Organizations and Corporate Setting
These circles represent the sessions that will be presenting at Action Research Conference. We can work on the session titles. And then we need your presentation title in the next few weeks so we can promote them. Some of your projects might have shifted a bit since I make this listing and some of you are working with students and teachers. If you feel that you don't fit in a learning circles, let me know.