Food for Thought

I. Course Evaluations

II. Sign ups for next week:
Tuesday's class cancelled for group conferences;
Final performances on Thursday

III. Review of checklist, final portfolio
By 12:30 p.m. Friday, December 18:
Final portfolio, including

Notes Towards Day 23: The Dog and its Tail

I. coursekeeping
let's hear your stories: what's it like, working together?
what works, what doesn't work so well, in this process?
how can we fiddle w/ it?

looking @ one critique

no reading assignments for week after Thanksgiving;
will e-mail you if I come across anything you should read;
come to class ready to draft w/ your group
the opening paragraph of your upcoming paper:
your re-envisioned mission-or-vision,

Notes Towards Day 20 of Food for Thought

I. Coursekeeping
by 9 a.m. on Mon: Post in our on-line course forum a one-paragraph analysis of
the findings of your initial research into ONE dimension (economic? psychological?
historical? cross-cultural?) of  designing a college curriculum.
Support that analysis w/ an annotated bibliography of 3 web sources.

for class on Tues, DON'T read

Archive of Class Photos

Field Trip to Pete's Produce (September 19, 2009)
Interpreting One Another's Data (October 21, 2009)

DID YOU BRING YOUR LAPTOP??
IF NOT PLEASE RUN AND FETCH IT NOW..

Notes Towards Day 14: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data

Nudging Ourselves and Others Towards Day 12--and Fall Break!

I. coursekeeping

anyone attend/want to report on "Sex, Politics, and Cancer: The Future of the HPV Vaccine"?

what to report on the process of identifying your subject group & generating 5 questions?
can you begin to imagine how you might present the data you'll be gathering?

will your surveys function as nudges? might you think about introducing some??

Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

I. coursekeeping
those papers due Fri? reporting in on topic-defining, progress in researching....?
3-pp. paper reporting on current studies done on your health choice:
how are most college students handling the choice you are confronting?
how best to present the information you find?
find three web sources; look @ HOW they present the info (causes? correlations?