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Meeting # & Date
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Preparation for Meeting/ Assignments Activated at That Meeting (due as specified below)
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| Week 1: Who are we, what is 'CBI', and what are we going to do? |
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#01 • 01 April
(link leads to meeting outline)
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Course introduction; people; what IS 'CBI' and how are we going to approach it?
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preparation for next meeting: see notes for meeting #1
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#02 • 03 April
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Examples of CBI; outline main course activities and opportunities
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preparation for next meeting: already assigned - see notes for meeting #2
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| Week 2: More what is 'CBI', and what are we going to do? Also: Other examples of CBI, and start of first learning activity |
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#03 • 08 April
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discussion of week 1's reading; defining CBI (refining the definition); the "Humboldt Project"; brainstorm course activities (mostly projects to produce learning materials)
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preparation for next meeting: Kaiser (2000) preface (use link here, or photocopies from meeting #2); Stryker/Leaver chapter 2 (Russian, novice level); Fukushima, "Promotional Video in a Foreign Langauge Course" (FLA 2002, 0175); Kennedy, "Language Learning and Its Impact on the Brain" (FLA 2006, 0405)
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#04 • 10 April
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Major segment (30 minutes or more) of small-group brainstorming about tentative first (smallest-scale) projects, possibly in relation to a collection of them (parallel across the group, or individual collections of work in this course).
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preparation for next meeting: content standards (OUS, PPS - links to come); Stryker/Leaver chapter 3 Italian (novice, intermediate); chapter 4 (Czech becomes Croatian and Serbian, novice [??])
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| Week 3: Thinking through the first CBI project; more possibilities; where to get help (standards, lesson plans) |
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#05 • 15 April
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More CBI topic areas (cooking, math & science); more about the "Humboldt Project": its next stages;
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preparation for next meeting: NO new reading; I suggest returning to previous meeting outlines and following up the links that we didn't get to in class. Short draft proposal for project due at meeting #6, 17 April.
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#06 • 17 April
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Project #1 proposals DUE. About lesson plans, and sources of lesson plans. Group discussion of current stage of project #1
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| Week 4: Thinking toward the next CBI project: the sub-structure of standards and thematic units |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#07 • 22 April
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project #1 proposals returned with feedback (and, we hope, a go-ahead
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preparation for next meeting:
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#08 • 24 April
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Dr. Fischer ABSENT (on plane to assessment conference in North Carolina). Guest Presenter Mary Bastiani
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preparation for next meeting:
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| Week 5: Networking: schools, grants |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#09 • 29 April
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outlining the projects & their purposes
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preparation for next meeting:
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#10 • 01 May
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brainstorming the projects; outlining their scoring guides
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| Week 6: Thinking toward project #3: a hefty CBI activity with long-term possibilities (course? cooperation within a large program outside?) |
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#11 • 06 May
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#12 • 08 May
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#13 • 13 May
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#14 • 15 May
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| Week 8: •• |
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#15 • 20 May
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#16 • 22 May
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Dr. Fischer ABSENT (daughter's graduation in Minnesota). Guest presenter, or else group conducts own meeting and reports back later.
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| Week 9: •• |
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#17 • 27 May
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#18 • 29 May
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| Week 10: •• |
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#19 • 03 June
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#20 • 05 June
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Finals Week
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List of Main Course Assignments (not necessarily in final order), with estimate in () of hours of outside-class time needed:
Project 1 (4): Short CBI Demo lesson (proposal, then finished project)
Project 2
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