LA2009

**From Paul:**
Here's a rough schedule to help your planning. March 30 Submit Cycle 2 (Should be peer reviewed) April 30 Submit Cycle 3 (Should be peer reviewed) May 30 Submit Final Report (Should be peer reviewed) June 15 Make final edits, ready Brochures, Poster June 16 Exhibitions start (evening) June 18 AR Presentations June 20 Graduation

This (winter) semester officially ends on April 17. Summer semester is May 4th thru July 24th. Note: classes will continue past graduation.

From Margaret:
Hi all, I am including this message from Paul as it is a good guide for pacing yourself (and I am not sure if he sent it to everyone). I think I have said I would be happy with cycle 2 report by the end of the semester but Paul reminds me that we have 3 weeks less time so this is a good overall time plan to keep in mind. I believe everyone in my group is working on cycle 2 now and some of you have cycle 2 already written and are working on cycle three. So I don't this should cause too much distress.

Let me tell you a bit about exhibitions. We are having a conference around exhibitions. The conference is open and you can invite your family. You will be presenting by learning circles. The way it will work is one learning circle will present (4-5 people), then there will be a short break where the people who are going to present and the people who just presented are by their tables with the posters for informal questions.

You will not be standing in front of your table when you present but instead will be the front of the room. BUT unlike previous years, you CAN use technology. You can project whatever you want on the large screen. There will be internet connection. You can bring in others virtually. BUT -- of the 10 minute presentation, you need to be talking for at least 8 of the minutes. The reason, historically, that these presentations were done without much in the way of technology is that techie students know how to get others to give their talk for them. The idea is that is your chance to present your ideas to an audience, sooooo we want to hear from you. But if there are short segments of multimedia that will help you make your point, you are welcome to use them. Also we expect that you will demonstrate your mastery over the technology and not have power point slides with 10 bullets that you read word for word. Reading either from paper or screen is deadly. The audience can read faster then you can and your talking interferes with their speed reading. But powerpoint is a powerful program that can be used in many creative ways to pull together images, words, videos and ideas. But whatever works for you works for us.

The good news is that you can invite family and friends to come the exhibitions to see you make your presentation. And you will be talking to an audience wider than just us. Paul or I will introduce the circle and you can quickly have a lightning rod of saying your name and the name of your project. Then to make things move smoothly, When you are finished, you will introduce the next person in your circle. At the end each circle presentations, Paul or I will have a few words to say about the learning circle presentations as a group.

So when Paul and I arrange you learning circles for this last term, we are going to forgo the goal of trying to make sure you work with everyone and instead focus on the creating good matches for an audience. The sessions and order of presentation will be determined with the new semester. And of course we hope that each of you will support the others in your learning circle as the circle is an exercise in shared responsible for the quality of all of the presentations. This is part of the leadership theme of the final semester.

Here is where you link your action research portfolio...https://mindmaps.wikispaces.com/C11+Action+Research (Now would be a good time to post it. ) Things are going to increase in speed as we approach the end. Stock up on power bars and we get plenty of rest... Margaret