February Meeting!

Today, Matt Prissel, Mitch Ogden and Jen Grant met to discuss the direction of our classroom projects, and our CoP, for our 2012 spring semester.  Matt, new to the CoP, is deploying the Illustrated Novel Mastery Project in his organic chemistry class. This is an amazing opportunity to use the illustrated novel is a core course. He shared with us his plans for helping his students develop their novels over the semester. This led to a discussion of how this type of visual project can be really

       Mitch, who teaches the fiction-to-film course, has been having his students create a graphic novel that’s adapted to a larger project within the course, a project that utilizes different media. Mitch has a great grasp of the power of narrative, and the processes involved in original writing. We discussed how his project evolved over the course of last semester, and new thoughts he has had in terms of implementing it over this semester.

     Jen, who implemented the illustrated novel project in a linked learning community last semester, discussed transformation of her project from an add-on final assignment into a mastery project that encourages students to make connections between different chapters in the course textbook. Jen was also interested in discussing how important it is to really consider assessment tools, like surveys.