PlannerYou are strongly encouraged to attend the EDIT 6900 presentations today. Click here for agenda.
Day 6 - Nov 15
Attend Presentations of 6900 9a-12n (optional, but highly recommended)
Room 113
Lunch 12-12:30
7340 meets 12:30-3p
End of Cycle 5
Business
Remaining assignments
- Spring Dates: 1/24; 2/7; 2/21; 3/14; 4/18; mostly 9-12; will provide exact schedule in January. Feb 21 will probably be Ed.S. only.
- Internship questions? Text (?)
- Course Evals : new system. Watch for instructions.
- E-Permission and Research Permission forms: in WebCT. I'll check on submission, but will not open them til after grades are submitted.
- Advisement Forms: update, date
- A few verbal pointers about the Notebook and the Reflection:
- Do not worry about making the Notebook "pretty." Send URL to Heather: hbogue@habersham.k12.ga.us.
- Reflections should answer these questions:
- What did you learn from this experience about action research, and how will you apply it on the job?
- How do you feel in terms of being ready for completing your project on time?
- Put something in the dropbox: document with URL, etc.
- Class Notebook link
Implementation
Making a difference - "proving" results - how to know if you're doing a good job
What would you add to the "big idea box" we started with?
Looking ahead to next semester: EDIT 7650
Last Word
Day 1
Saturday, August 16
1:00-3:00, Room 118
First Day Blog Post
1:00
Gathering
Wear your nametag!
Welcome
Special welcome for "new" folks
Overview of today
Advising Sheets: distribute, update, take up (for those still using paper ones)
We'll plan to have a breakette at 2p, if needed
Introductions and Re-Introductions
Course Orientation
The syllabus; assignment overview
Middle part of the AP:
Design
Preparation for Data Collection
Planner
Our class web site
How this class interlocks with EDIT 6900
Food
Your first assignment: Researchable Question
Things to sign up for:Where is everything? You will have it all if you:
- No TAs this year (amidst austerity doom and gloom). I need everyone to take on a volunteer job.
- Jobs (voluntary)(important!)
- SLM Research Star Exhibition
- We need a Manager.
- Stake your claim on a name - they will disappear fast.
- Do the things listed on the Planner (calendar is there, too). SLM/Grad school dates are listed on the calendar.
- Watch the AP Blog for class-specific news and topics.
- Monitor your email for SLM-L (rare), WebCT emails, direct messages from me or classmates. You can also have the blog come to your email.
- Watch for WebCT notifications. Use your private Discussion Board there for one-on-one Q&A about the AP. This works best for our mutual long-term memory.
- Know your way around the 7340 website and WebCT. I'll use WebCt for private things and Delicious to organize - but will always put pointers to and from.
Reminders:
- It's best to use your UGA email for most course-related activities, including listserv addresses. Fewer bounce, junk-mail problems. If you prefer another account, remember to have your UGA forwarded to it automatically.
Aug 16 | Sep 13 | Sep 27 | Oct 11 | Nov 1 | Nov 15
Planner | Calendar
7340 Home | Syllabus | Assignments | WebCT | Fitzgerald Home
C7 Faces | C7 Assignment Pages | Exhibition Page | Our Photo Album
Day 2 - Sep 13
Intern Session 11a-12; Lunch 12-12:30; 7340 12:30-3p
Room 113
Due: Researchable Question (dropbox)
End of Cycle 1
Business
Asking tolerance for phase differences - it's a Chutes/Ladders process anyway
Topic: Design
Things you can't do (IRB, etc.)
Last Word: Angie
The Tub People - Pam Conrad
Sock Monkey - Cece Bell
Traction Man Is Here - Mini Grey
End of Cycle 2
12:30-3:00 online - Wimba (archive available: see WebCT/7340/Wimba)
7340 Home | Assignments | Planner |
Open links in your own windows, if you like
Remind me to turn Archive "on"
12:30
Business
Action Research Cycle Graphic
pic
Design into Development
- Placeholder for Ethics
- Quick Progress Reports from each person (verbal, 2 min)
- Design reprise as needed
Development of Instruments and Materials (the Assignment, due 10/18)
- List each piece
- Examples: questionnaires, pre-tests, interview protocols, observation instruments, lesson plans, consent forms, invitation messages
- Keep timeline in mind
- Take each piece of your design and make it
- Consider pilot testing
Wrapping Up
Looking ahead
Critique due on 10/25; lesson available
We agreed in class that we wouldn't go through a formal presentation on this skill. The same material is available under the lesson link. On Oct 11, you will have opportunity to pose questions about the skill or the assignment.
Planner
- Send me trial balloons, questions as needed
- Can schedule verbal consultations as needed during the week
Remind me to turn archive "off"
Individual conferencing available if time
Agenda shared with EDIT 6900
Ethics of Research: the IRB (aka Human Subjects) Proposal Process
- The reason why ethical research is crucial: Milgram's obedience experiments; Tuskegee Syphillis Study; Brown-eye Blue-eye/Jane Elliott
- These social experiments all show the power of deception and have been famously controversial. (Results were not uniformly bad, however.)
- Recent example on PBS: Great Britain, matchmaking agency, extensive experiments that did no obvious harm but people needed to know what they were getting into
- Basic ethical principles
- informed consent - participants and their parents (if minors)
- risk - including public exposure; all kinds of possible harm; anonymous or confidential; relation to grades
- distribution of benefit and burden: should not unfairly benefit one group over others
- protection for vulnerable participants
- The IRB process: Click here related materials. (Human Subjects; Guidelines; Applications). This site shows the enormity of the research enterprise at UGA - across all disciplines.
- Class IRB Guidelines
- Resource: Ethical Research from Fullerton (extensive!)
- Bottom line: don't implement any elements of your project without my okay.
- Questions?
7340 Planner
Day 5 - Nov 1
SLM Research Stars
10:00-3p, virtual (stay home!)
End of Cycle 4
Exhibition Page: allyd22@yahoo.com
Wear your sunglasses and prepare to be starstruck!
9:15
Optional Exhibition Instructions:
(if you're not quite clear on what to do in the Exhibition, login around 9:15 to WebCT 7460)
(6900 meets at 9am)
Business for the Exhibition:
- Independently visit as many exhibits as possible. Leave comments on 5 to 10. However, don't feel constrained - comment on as many as you like.
- Some have set up Comment spaces on the WebCT 7460 Discussion Board.
- In your comments, be constructive and/or complimentary. Try not to repeat what has already been said.
- Nominate at least one for Wacky Award - prior to 12:30 (or as early as you can). More than one nomination per person - welcome. Do this via Skype IM or direct email to me.
- Group meetings possible after our 1p.m. "meeting."
- Upload your Star rubric into the dropbox at the end of the day.
10:00-1:00 Exhibition: visit the Stars!
1:00: Assemble in Wimba for Wacky aWards, Exhibition wrap-up (this meeting is partially archived in WebCT 7460 Wimba)
2:00, Wimba: EDIT 7340 alone:
- Open Q&A
- Discuss dates (7650 + 7460) for Spring 2008:
- 7460 will meet 9-12: 1/24; 2/7; 2/21; 3/14; 4/18. Topics: internship issues; M.Ed. portfolios; job-hunting. May not use all of these dates; hold for now; do not expect to add to this list.
- 7650 will meet 12:30-3 on those same days.
- Tentative: Feb 21 may be all day one-on-one consultations for APs, with individual appointments.
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