Christopher Stein
always curious, ever changing, grounded in reality
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There was some great discussion on this in our breakout room. Group work is (almost) always difficult but also such an important skill. Your story also speaks to the “failure is a greater teacher than success” quote, where you can learn about yourself and how to work better in a group in the future if your group has problems than if it goes smoothly.
When I do group projects I also find that defined roles, clear rubrics and the chance for them to give feedback on each other and themselves are all important.
I like your idea of blocking out time for the task to commit yourself to do it. This is something I need to get better at doing myself.
Yes, I think we all feel daunted by grading. Your overall approach of focusing on the big picture and breaking the task into chunks is very similar to my approach. I will have to adopt your mini-awards as well as that sounds great.
As a PI on a grant there was a lot of paperwork to submit that I didn’t want to (receipts, reports etc.) At first much of it seemed to be unnecessary or superfluous. However, I realized that the funders had their own reports to write and it was necessary to make sure money was not misspent. What really helped me to change my mind was to focus on the good things that were coming as a result of the grant and see the paperwork as the necessary oil in the machine that allowed those good things to happen. When I focused on one thing at a time and broke it up into smaller chunks over time, that helped me to stay engaged with it and complete it. That also meant I had to learn to not wait until the last minute!
I agree with this quote in general, although an important part of being able to learn from your failures is to know WHY you failed so that you can make an adjustment to your approach when you try again. In teaching we don’t always help students with that part.
In a corollary, forgetting is a part of learning. Also knowing what we forgot helps us to know what to learn again so we can remember. Forgetting to Remember — The Learning Scientists
Thanks Matt for posting up the info on NYCDH week!
If you are planning on attending, the Commons In A Box OpenLab team is running a workshop at NYCDH Week – join us!
Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.
The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers NYCDH (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/, which is based on the CUNY Academic Commons), and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to closed, proprietary systems, and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.
We will showcase CBOX OpenLab’s features and functionality, using examples from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s installation of the software (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/), then discuss how CBOX OpenLab can support open learning in your community.
The workshop is 8am-10am on Thursday Feb 10, 2022 – sign up here: https://nycdh.org/dhweek/event/supporting-open-learning-with-commons-in-a-box-openlab/
We hope to see some of you there!
Sorry sounds like it’s been lotta trouble. I am adding. One more day to
Sorry sounds like it’s been a lot of trouble. I’m going to Come by
Sorry for not registering earlier (childcare issues I couldn’t work out in time). If it’s not too late, I can make it tonight. I’ll go on Eventbrite.
Sorry for not registering earlier (childcare issues I couldn’t work out in time). If it’s not too late, I can make it tonight. I’ll go on Eventbrite.
Hi Evan,
The resources list looks great. I noticed that you wrote it in Markdown that wasn’t being processed. I added the WP-Markdown plugin and enabled it for posts (you can enable it for other things in Settings > Writing).You might also consider adding in projects that are built on FOSS like
Best,
ChrisI teach until 7pm on the 17th, after that I’ll be ready to eat!
Not the 18th after the CAT meeting for old times’ sake Mikhail?
I can’t remember the last time I was at a CUNY Pie, I’m ready too!
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, CUNY Academic Commons
Thanks for the info Beth. Will this webinar be recorded and made available for those who can’t attend in real time?
I’m pretty sure the answer is no. I don’t know about other services but in most editing is considered a higher lever permission than printing or downloading so I’m guessing that you won’t have any luck there either. And remember that anything you let people see on the screen can be turned into an image file and saved or printed with a screenshot tool.
You didn’t give the reason why you want this feature, perhaps with that other suggestions are possible. If you just need students to input data and don’t want them to see the results then it sounds like you want a form. That is something that you can do with a Google Doc.
Best,
Chris
