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This project just feels right. I love the fact that I am able to work with all of my teams with minimal direction now. It bothers me that we don’t do ACGs any more. But they work SO much in my class that we never have time. Sometimes I really miss circle greetings from the first several weeks. I know that they just need to work.

I really want to work on giving more individual feedback as this project progresses. I also need to role with having to teach to different job roles while maintaining all job roles within the classroom. I am curious to see if it is easier to work with smaller groups of students while having a whole class present. We will see.

The kids seem to really get the project. Today there was some confusion about how to generate topics for dissection. I hadn’t really thought it all the way through just what I wanted for topics. Like what is the anatomy of a good topic?

Anatomy of a Good Topic

• Each member of your group is interested in this topic enough to get through a month and a half long project dealing just with that topic.
• The topic is juicy (something others might be interested in)
• The topic is something worth looking at (why is anything worth looking at)
• The topic meets the project objective

That was relatively painless.

I also need to take out the part of the proposal that talks about “how” to show the piece. Maybe remember to have the artists generate their proposal AFTER the audio starts being compiled.

I have to remember to run a demo for puppet generation for next week. That means I get to build a puppet! I should probably do the whole project this weekend I will ask Marisol if she would like to be interviewed.

“Teachers and Cliques” hmmmm…..

~Mister Y

PS – I TOTALLY forgot to write about how cool it was to see the groups being chosen for the last two days. The Project Managers really worked to make teams be good teams and everyone in the class worked so awesomely to ban together and work with the PM’s for interviews. It was an amazing process to give that power to the kids and I know I will definitely repeat this in the future.