Session1

Preparation:
Review Preamble
Sign up for a http://plus.google.com account and let instructors know your gmail address,
Students at a distance: get the google+ hangout audio & video plugins installed, attend test run of Google+ Hangout with Jeremy, if needed, and resolve any technical issues before Tuesday.
Google Hangout link to be supplied via this link on the wiki menu 10 minutes before the session starts; ditto for all subsequent weeks.

Session: (Theme: Beyond "Thinking Outside the Box")
Getting students from a distance online
Brief reminder of course organization and rhythm
Activity: From 9 dots exercise to 4Rs framework
Collaborative Exploration (CE) 1 begins

• Read Case 1: Everyone can think creatively!
• Autobiographical Introductions, followed by connections and extensions

Quick preview of syllabus and tasks to get going in the course
Take stock of the session (Critical incident questionnaire)

Follow-up:
Read "Teaching and Learning for Reflective Practice," from Taylor and Szteiter (2012), Taking Yourself Seriously, 240-259.
Check-in with one instructor by email or hangout before Saturday about ideas and questions to get inquiry going on CE 1.
Arrange now to get via Inter-library loan or other means, readings you think might interest you in CE 1.
Join this wiki & Google+ community when you receive the invites (on your @umb.edu & gmail emails, respectively)
Review the syllabus and wiki organization, then post on Google+ community a question about them (include #Syllabus tag) or reply to someone else's posted question.
Purchase or arrange to borrow course texts.
Choose text for journalling project by session 3 (using annotations tagged #Journal on google+ community to guide you).
Take note of work due in the sessions ahead,especially Annotated bibliography postings (two by end of each CE), Work-in-progress presentations (week 3 of CE), Draft product (week 4 of CE).