Notes From the Curriculum Committee

Like much of my life, this is stream of consciousness note-taking -- I'll clean up later....

There was some talk of how to work design into a J program and whether some sort of template could be created.

Susan discussed her faculty mentoring role at Arizona and how that role was built into her job description. She has a course reduction and the position is very informal, evolving nicely over time to now people come to her seeking advice.

The mentoring role has very much set the tone for collaboration at Arizona.

Set the tone with collaboration – evolved at UA

Penny – such an idea as to evolve over time.

There was some discussion on the value of teaching multimedia by deconstructing and reconstructing stories on the web.

Scott – raised concerns about depth and how we can all train students to continue to find ways to dig deeper.

We need to focus more on in-depth work and critical thinking – how to go deep into paper trail;
Also, how do u develop assignments without teaching final cut?

Susan – spoke abot the idea of teaching to multimedia – break down and build assignments along the way.
Have other teachers come in to edit the stories; others focus on the tech side
Grammar test and U-Md and Oregon
“When Words Collide”

modeling collaborative exchange of ideas – what did we learn
course meetings?
Setting up course meetings to exchange ideas;

Don’t need to be jack of all trades but need to know how to relate to all trades – susan
Send out on an assignment – is this an audio story, video story, text –
More framing – textbooks that outline what a multimedia story is?
Better curicculum at how to teach this

Here are components of different stories – give some structure
How much context is in the piece

Telling multimedia stories –

Blogs –
Scott – use as a way to draw in students –
Have conversations about readings on the blog

Susan – depth, storyboard with multimedia pieces
Get them outside doing different things – intro class – hands on but learning multimedia
Susan – let them go ahead and turn in crap at the start of multimedia – similar standards to what we have for writing
Part of job description – do multimedia; examine web stuff