We had our first group meeting near the school where we began to outline a general project mission for our group:

“We think the basic idea of our project will be to translate the classroom curriculums given to us by HAF (on the 4 subjects Jason mentioned: health/stigmatization/violence/substance abuse) into online versions that will fully utilize the resources available within an online platform – that is, incorporating multimedia and “social” media (video, images, hyperlinks to resources, blogs, discussion forums, etc.) into the curriculums we’re given. What features and resources available online will help make the curriculums more engaging and/or effective? We think participation, narrative, and interactivity are probably key here. Also: perhaps incorporating a combination of social media and social marketing into the curriculum.”

Minutes:

1. Without the curriculums from HAF, it was hard to do a lot of specific planning, in terms of the project plan. We did decide that we would need to do some more research on A) the target population (this might just be completing all the readings and meeting w/ HAF, but could possibly include collaborating w/ group #s 1 and/or 3) and B) find out more about the target population’s experience/education/usage of computers and online platforms, so that we can adjust our curriculum accordingly.

2. We went over the Project Plan Format that is on the class Wiki – many of the Project Plan parts will be incomplete until we receive the curriculums from HAF. However we decided to divide the subject areas up between us, for research and drafting the online curriculum versions – then we’ll meet again, and revise them together.

3. We decided that I will set up the blog by Wed/Thurs and email you guys the login instructions, so that you can post the reading response assignment that is due on Sunday. Caroline will begin drafting the Project Plan…though, again, that will be incomplete until we get the curriculums from HAF…and email that to us by this weekend to look over and revise, if need be.

4. We decided on a loose and tentative Timeline (required for the Project Plan Outline). It is of course subject to change, as needed. Please let me/Caroline know what you think about this:

This Week:
-set up blog, I will do this and email you guys the login info. by Thurs. at the latest
-preliminary Project Plan draft – to be done by Caroline and emailed to us by the weekend
-individual assignment – reading and response – due on blog by Sunday

Week June 23-30 (Next Week):
-Another in-person group meeting on Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully by that time we will have received the curriculums and we can all come up with a general protocol for how we should draft our curriculum, that will apply to each of our subject areas.
-Do curriculum drafts for our assigned subject area, based on the protocol we come up with during our meeting – including any sketches or prototypes
-Complete final draft of the Project Plan and send to Jason/post on Blog
-Continued research on our target population (meet with HAF?)

Week June 30 – July 6
-Continue to work individually on the online curriculum for our assigned subject area
-Gather materials, sketches, and prototypes to show at the next class meeting in SL
-Individual short projects are due around this time I think, post on Blog

Week July 7 – July 13th
-Group meeting (this one will have to be on Skype or SL, as I will be out of town) to go over the progress of our subject areas, and help each other revise
-Begin drafting our progress reports for Jason
-request feedback from HAF and Jason

Week July 14th – July 20th:
-Revise our online curriculums based on the feedback we are given
-Begin to come up with a final version

Week July 20th (Last Week I think):
-Post Final Versions on blog
-Final Report to Jason