Feedback+for+Jann

What I liked best about this course:

 * You said you were interested to see what I will choose for my master's thesis. I am playing with the idea of sensory proprioception as a result of designing Observation: A Study of Senses.
 * I was engaged by the website you gave us to explore prior to the class.
 * The syllabus.
 * The sessions and questions for each session (sessions rather than days was useful when the timeline changed!)
 * The pre and post class questions.
 * A space to post comments is a good idea even though it's something we weren't able to access.
 * You are incredibly prompt in emailing!
 * I enjoyed having Deb available to answer questions and offer experience.
 * I appreciated hearing anecdotes from your experiences in Montana and in Mozambique
 * I see the benefit in learning by doing. I can easily comprehend UbD, and with more time I will be able to organize my notes into useful mental models. However, applying the idea and getting feedback in class is fantastic because I realized I don’t naturally design fantastic units. Hearing you repeatedly talk through the thought process for our units was helpful!
 * I benefited from the way you integrated the units we were each designing into your teaching. I am impressed about how you relate to/ offer suggestions and examples about diverse subject areas. This goes along with the idea that there is actually not so many core concepts to teach.
 * Your additions to UBD helped me understand the idea that there is really not a lot of curriculum I need to cover, but I may be trying to do to many activities.
 * I learned from your emphasis on making meaning.
 * I appreciated you including the idea of a personal connection.
 * The links you continually made between the U, Q, K and S.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Meta learning/ thinking."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 8 causes for everything.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The list of concepts you provided and illustrated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I now use Live Binders as a student-centered resource. You also introduced us to tizmos and fur.ly.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suggestions:

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timing: I know timing is tight, but, ideally, we would have had one day towards the middle of the week where we weren’t studying. This would have assisted me in processing information. My first course with SUNY was with an in house teacher and we studied on the weekends. For this course I would have preferred to start at 4pm rather than 2:45 so I could review notes and questions before each course.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I haven’t seen your book! It could be interesting to have a copy available in class.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On http//edu670.wikispaces.com/Materials I created a complete list of what you’d asked us to bring to the first class on various parts of your google site and syllabus.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I would have loved a live binder for this course, to replace the folders where you have the documents to download! I can imagine tabs for
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each step of designing a unit
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Template
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examples of teachers using the template
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tools to refer to/ for professional development
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bloom and other useful models
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Power point by the authors of UbD
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources from you. In the live binder you could even include a quick summary or purpose of each pdf/ power point or notes on what we’ve focused on in class.