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28 April 2008

Contents 1 Today's in-lab activities 2 Homework assignments 3 What we did last week

Today's in-lab activities

1) Five (5) minute warm-up in teams (per Evaluation Team guidelines)

a) who met, made contact (someone take notes - "minutes" - to turn in on paper to Steph)

b) what was accomplished (to be published in a Team Member's weblog and link posted in a Reply to Steph's new post, self/team-assessment)

c) next steps and long-term goals (to be published, separately, in a Team Member's weblog and link posted in a Reply to Steph's other new post, long term goals (and the next steps to get there))

d) questions and concerns (to be published directly as a Reply to this post from Steph: when confusion is the condition)

2) Re-commence and continue with wiki work. Links to be created from the Home Page to the respective pages of each Team's work. Requires coordination of the Design/Process Team with (what should mostly be) cutting and pasting from each Team.

3) What did we learn from John? How will we incorporate his visit, book, and lessons learned into the wiki?

4) Complete the new Dot/Star System Peer Evaluation form

5) Make totally sure you are completely clear on the homework!

Homework assignments

1. Complete the take-home Test #10 on group roles and stages of development. The online portions A & B must be completed by Sunday May 4 so Steph can grade and prep it for in-class work. (Portion C, the essay questions, are postponed.)
2. Get your team wikipages into final shape. They need to be a) in the right place, and b) interconnected with other relevant material (e.g., other teams pages and class pages) before the next class.
3. Read The Significance of Human Conflict by Kenneth D. Benne (handout) ((in-class test material)
4. Read the results from Test 8. There will be an in-class test on this material. We will determine the final evaluation criteria using these results, the work of the Evaluation Team, and anything else that you think is relevant!

a) newest proposal from the Evaluation Team

b)Feedback to Steph

c) comments to building on success and emergence of care,

d) the assessment link organized under Fishbowl K and M's task, plus

e) any of your work/memories from in-class worksheets, the wiki, and blogs.

Fishbowl M and Fishbowl N, get ready!

What we did last week

There was an inconclusive homework regarding functional roles of group members. Students presented wiki-team ideas and we had a great conversation with John Robison.