Gathering
Wear your nametag!
Welcome
Introducing Kristie M. - Teaching Assistant
Overview of today
One big goal for today is to formulate groups!
Program news

Personal info: email me with your preferred email address, preferred phone number(s), and mailing address
Orientation to EDIT 6340 - the syllabus; assignment overview
Our class web site
Things to sign up for:

• Jobs (voluntary)(important!)
• Instructional Materials Exhibition
  
• Cohort 7's
  
• Topics, Times, and Formats (format brainstorming)
• Remember that I almost always tweak assignments - can't use old examples as templates
• I'll check the Exhibition topics for balance and coverage.
  
• Last Word:
• Focus on BookTalking and Challenged Books
  
• Daily doorprize; children's lit trivia questions

Planned Guests:

• Vendor reps
• An alum or SLMS who suffered a recent challenge

Communication

• Same wiki from last semester?
• WebCT homepage has all my contact info
• Push
• Pull: this 6340 website; WebCt 6340 homepage provides entry points too.  Most important: Planner | Agenda | Syllabus | Framework
  
• Phone tree: for last-minute cancellations or other emergency info (which I would also publish through every possible channel)
  
• Where is everything?
• How will I know if I'm seeing it all? If you monitor these, you'll keep up-to-date.  Hint: have most of these feed into your most important email address and check almost daily.
  

Grouping:

• Costs/benefits of teamwork
• Some strategies
  
• Small groups: 2-3 people max
• Need to form groups ASAP and help if people need partners/groups
  

• Selection Policy Cover Sheet now ready (due with SP, Mar 1)
  

• Wrap-up questions
  
• Looking ahead  Hint: if you use Google Calendar, you can search for this calendar and add it to yours.
  
• Homework
• Trivia
  
• Last Word: Jim