Check out what the ICSA team has been up to throughout our creative process! Here you will find journal entries from a select few of our collaborative meetings. For a more comprehensive (and chaotic) look at our team’s communication, task lists, deadlines, curriculum development, information, etc., click the link below.
https://2dumb2quit.teamwork.com/#projects/251432/overview/summary
Week 6 Meeting: YAY!
Hey all! Meet the teachers of the best art enthusiasts/social studies geniuses/computer science superstars/the 5 best friends anyone could ever have! Our goal is to create unique lessons about artists and their work in the De Stijl movement, including the historical background of each artist, that are integrated with computer science concepts.
From center going clockwise pictured: Ms. Sparks, Ms. Hucke, Ms. Paquette, Ms. Vetter, & Ms. Moyer @ University of Oregon HEDCO Education Building in Eugene, Oregon.
Week 7 Meeting: Feelin’ the Stress
It’s Thursday, Week 7 and we’re not in love.
Today in our meeting, we began serious discussions about logistics of due dates, videos, and lesson plans. Brandi was such a saint, she had her lesson plan done and shared her knowledge with us. We began the day feeling a little scattered, but this meeting has given us a new hope and fresh ideas. Brandi’s lesson plans are reflective of the EDST 410, Art and Education, and EDST 333, Teaching, Learning, and Assessment’s plan templates combined. The rest of us have decided to follow Brandi’s lead and use her format for our lesson plans. THANK YOU BRANDI .
Here is a ~tentative~ schedule of what will happen with our lesson plans:
Our group lesson is about De Stijl and 5 prominent artists in the movement.
We will be using Scratch, UO Blogs, Teamwork.com, and videography to teach these lessons.
May 17th – Our biggest meeting yet, focused on finding resources for our lesson ideas.
May 18th-20th – Work on the lesson plans individual so that…
May 22nd – From 12-2pm, the Dream Team will get together with our individual lesson plans completed. The rest of the meeting will be used to combine our knowledge for a 6th lesson plan.
May 24th – Any alterations of artifacts will be done during team meeting. Touch ups of 6th lesson plan will be done.
May 29th – Have our individual artifacts due during our meeting and prep completely for video from 12-2pm @ HEDCO. AT 6pm, the team will meet at Olivia’s house to film the video! It will be done Tuesday.
May 31th – 12-2pm @ HEDCO meeting, we will edit the video as much as possible.
Weekend of June 1st-3rd – Shania, Hannah, and Olivia will get together for any final touches of website and video ~ Brandi & Bailey will be out of town.
Week of June 4th – Present the video in gallery walk!
This will be a stretch, and we’re feeling the stress with the end of the term coming up. But we are the dream team, we got this!!!
Week 8 Meeting: Kicking it Into Gear
It’s week 8 and the pressure is on! Although the work loads from our other classes aren’t letting up anytime soon, our lesson plans are coming along nicely and are mostly completed, with only a few finishing touches left. Today we collaborated to complete our sixth and final lesson plan, combining our knowledge from our individual lesson plans to get it done. This is our main goal for this week as next week will largely be focused on creating the script and actually filming our promotional video. We can’t wait to reveal all that we’ve been working on!