Grid Game

Here are the instructions for the grid game:

The Grid Game

1. Create a grid on the floor of your classroom with masking tape. It should be no less than 4 X 4 and the squares should be big enough to stand in. The objective is to get your team from one side of the grid to the other as quickly as possible. There can be a deadline which will serve as the assessment.


2. List the rules for the class on the board:
*No talking while the person is on the grid.
*I will only say “no” if you are on an incorrect square.
*You may move forward, sideways, diagonally, or backward.
*If a person makes a misstep, he/she needs to exit the grid in the same
way he/she entered the grid.
(I do it this way the first time. During the second time, I do not let them speak at all.)

3. Once the students have finished playing the game, allow them time to debrief, as well as strategize ways to get their team across the grid in a faster, more organized way. Emphasize teamwork and taking on leadership roles during the game.

4. Questions that the facilitator can ask to get conversation moving:
Which way worked better? Why?
What if the game was reversed and you could not speak during the first time through the grid?
How did you come up with the strategies you used?
What would have happened if I had each student try to figure it out on his/her own?
What did you learn about teamwork?
How does the individual person fit into the concept of teamwork?

Pictures

Here are the pictures that you all wanted. These should come in useful for sure! Best of luck with the coming school year-- keep us all in touch!

-Adam

Hey y'all

So here we are in the anonymous space of the cyber world, what now??

EDUC 6804

Wow that's a reeeeeeeeally upper division Ed Class. Why on earth am I coming in?

I think we're living through a revolution which could rival Gutenberg's. You have all probably had on-line discussions in your (recent) college classes. High school students today deserve to go into their post secondary lives with as much technological experience as possible--ask me about my first year of college blue book experience.

Last year I started teaching a Blogs Class. Somewhere in early August, I awoke at 4 am after one of those August school dreams...lovely. After staring at the ceiling for about a half an hour, mind racing, I went downstairs and started surfing.

I found Blogger useful for various things:
A paperless class Twain Class

John and I used it in our classes.

I used it in several classes in different ways.
Dante Class
Dante Pforum

On Blogger let's try to a few things:

• Join Blogger
• Create your own Blog
• Post something you brought
• Join my blog--by accepting the email invite
• Look at other people's blogs
• Post comments

On my Blog and post a comment about how useful you think on-line discussions are. What have your experiences been with them?


Some other things to check out:
bloglines-does anyone already do this? check it out
forums any of you done these? like em?
jotspot
login: user1
password: pfouts
on line publishing and peer editing


I found a book by by Will Richardson which helped get me going--check out his book