League for Innovation, Reno, NV
15 March 2009
http://www.league.org/i2009/
Sunday morning at 8:30, I led a workshop called "How to get your students to think for themselves." Surprisingly, 30 people showed up, many of them early! It was a very involved group, and I believe that a lot of learning took place.
I also went to a talk about nuResume, a new networking website for college students, faculty, and industry employers to post their profiles and communicate about jobs. I want to create a profile for myself there, so that I might be able to use it to help students find jobs. Foothill career center co-presented this workshop, so there are already a number of Foothill people and employers on nuResume.
A workshop on "Team-based Learning" gave some valuable tips on student teams. The 5 stages are: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning. They broke us up into teams immediately and had us do a short team activity to help us get to know each other and gel as a team. I should do that with my students at the start of a project. They recommended a book called "Successful Teamwork" by Peter Levin.
posted by Elaine @ 3:41 PM
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It was fun to be reminded of "forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning". I was quickly thrust together with a number of people for a class project in my Project Management class, and I was frustrated in the beginning because it was so chaotic. The instructor helpfully pointed out that we were in the storming phase. Sure enough, we've moved to norming and performing now.
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