Kia ora tatou, and welcome to the second week of Art History. Our numbers have multiplied over the last week.
I think that we will quickly go around and say our names again (and this time share how your week or the start to your school year is going, and whether you are new to online learning or not) so that we start to connect faces and names (and new people don't feel isolated).
I really enjoyed getting to know you more over the week through our padlets. We are an interesting and talented bunch it seems. We will touch in quickly on our class protocol. Is there anything else that we feel will be important to add here to function really well as a team in a discussion based course?
Our roles and thinking dispositions. Art History will run a bit differently. It is discussion based and you will be working as an Art History research team. I will be a Thinking Coach and you will be Co-Curators. What does this sound like to you? How do you picture these roles based on these names? Share your ideas to the Roles padlet above then we will korero about this as a class.
Following on from this we will do a little personal goal setting. Thinking dispositions are attributes that research has indicated will help you to become critical and creative thinkers. What do you think will be important for you to work on this term? Open up the thinking dispositions padlet and indicate which will be important for you to work on. Explain why these will be important for you to work on. We will have a brief chat about our goals.
Then we will do a little more team building. I am focusing very deliberately on this as experience has taught me that it is super important for working well as a research team, to establish a space where everyone feels safe and comfortable to share their ideas.
We will play a little game 'Two Truths and a Lie'. It is pretty straight forward. You need to think of two things that are true about yourself and one thing that is false. You will share your truths and a lie with the class (I'll keep notes in the chat as we go), then we will decide what people are lying about. This is a good way of finding out a bit more about each other (and finding out who has the best poker face).
We work a little bit more on our Ice Breaker. Once you have added something for each of my questions, talk to each other on the padlet. Ask more questions that help you to get to know the class. Treat it as a conversation not a monologue. You could ask people about the place/time in history that they would travel to, talk to people that you have things in common with, or try to guess the country that people have given clues about.
Then we will work on our Ideas about Art Padlet.
Let's review our discussion about art. What are some key themes that have been highlighted? - group korero.
It is great to see people already building on each other's ideas. A wee bit of housekeeping. Keep using your names in the titles so we can see who we are talking to. Also include in the title labels like 'A Question', 'I need to understand', 'This is my opinion', 'Here's some research', 'An idea is'.
Remember that this should also be like a conversation. In your posts you can agree with each other, look at different aspects, or ask questions. You might say 'Yes, and ...', or 'Another idea is', 'What about'. Another next step will be to try to test our ideas by finding authoritative sources. Can we prove our ideas that we've posted? Can you find evidence that might shed new light on someone else's ideas. Try to see this as an interactive class discussion. Once an idea is out there in our community ANYONE can work on it
We need to think about which topic area we want to focus on. We can either look at Late Renaissance (which involves looking at the revival of classical ideas, the influence of powerful patrons, and the impact of the reformation - among other things) or Early Modernism ( which involves looking at modernity and change, the impact of psychoanalytical ideas, the impact of and response to war - among other things). As this course is discussion based, we need to figure out the topic area we want to focus on as a group. (It gets too isolating and fragmented if we are focusing on different things within our class) In the google community vote in the poll for your preferred topic area and post why you think it would be interesting. (If we run out of time in the VC can you please do this during the week, as I would like to make a start on the first module next week)
Also I want to remind you to email me to organise a time to meet one to one - this is really important as it helps me to know how to support you best as a student and also gives me a fuller picture of you as a student (I don't have access to most things your face to face teachers would e.g. assessment results, your student file etc)
I will also try to allow 5 minutes at the end of the VC to trouble shoot technology with anyone who needs help (e.g. joining Google+, getting set up on Knowledge Forum which I will introduce to you next week or navigating our digital spaces).
I really enjoyed getting to know you more over the week through our padlets. We are an interesting and talented bunch it seems. We will touch in quickly on our class protocol. Is there anything else that we feel will be important to add here to function really well as a team in a discussion based course?
Our roles and thinking dispositions. Art History will run a bit differently. It is discussion based and you will be working as an Art History research team. I will be a Thinking Coach and you will be Co-Curators. What does this sound like to you? How do you picture these roles based on these names? Share your ideas to the Roles padlet above then we will korero about this as a class.
Following on from this we will do a little personal goal setting. Thinking dispositions are attributes that research has indicated will help you to become critical and creative thinkers. What do you think will be important for you to work on this term? Open up the thinking dispositions padlet and indicate which will be important for you to work on. Explain why these will be important for you to work on. We will have a brief chat about our goals.
Then we will do a little more team building. I am focusing very deliberately on this as experience has taught me that it is super important for working well as a research team, to establish a space where everyone feels safe and comfortable to share their ideas.
We will play a little game 'Two Truths and a Lie'. It is pretty straight forward. You need to think of two things that are true about yourself and one thing that is false. You will share your truths and a lie with the class (I'll keep notes in the chat as we go), then we will decide what people are lying about. This is a good way of finding out a bit more about each other (and finding out who has the best poker face).
We work a little bit more on our Ice Breaker. Once you have added something for each of my questions, talk to each other on the padlet. Ask more questions that help you to get to know the class. Treat it as a conversation not a monologue. You could ask people about the place/time in history that they would travel to, talk to people that you have things in common with, or try to guess the country that people have given clues about.
Then we will work on our Ideas about Art Padlet.
Let's review our discussion about art. What are some key themes that have been highlighted? - group korero.
It is great to see people already building on each other's ideas. A wee bit of housekeeping. Keep using your names in the titles so we can see who we are talking to. Also include in the title labels like 'A Question', 'I need to understand', 'This is my opinion', 'Here's some research', 'An idea is'.
Remember that this should also be like a conversation. In your posts you can agree with each other, look at different aspects, or ask questions. You might say 'Yes, and ...', or 'Another idea is', 'What about'. Another next step will be to try to test our ideas by finding authoritative sources. Can we prove our ideas that we've posted? Can you find evidence that might shed new light on someone else's ideas. Try to see this as an interactive class discussion. Once an idea is out there in our community ANYONE can work on it
We need to think about which topic area we want to focus on. We can either look at Late Renaissance (which involves looking at the revival of classical ideas, the influence of powerful patrons, and the impact of the reformation - among other things) or Early Modernism ( which involves looking at modernity and change, the impact of psychoanalytical ideas, the impact of and response to war - among other things). As this course is discussion based, we need to figure out the topic area we want to focus on as a group. (It gets too isolating and fragmented if we are focusing on different things within our class) In the google community vote in the poll for your preferred topic area and post why you think it would be interesting. (If we run out of time in the VC can you please do this during the week, as I would like to make a start on the first module next week)
Also I want to remind you to email me to organise a time to meet one to one - this is really important as it helps me to know how to support you best as a student and also gives me a fuller picture of you as a student (I don't have access to most things your face to face teachers would e.g. assessment results, your student file etc)
I will also try to allow 5 minutes at the end of the VC to trouble shoot technology with anyone who needs help (e.g. joining Google+, getting set up on Knowledge Forum which I will introduce to you next week or navigating our digital spaces).
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