September 19, 2001

7:00 Arrival and greetings (Time for bantering)

7:15 Check-in

7:25 - 8: 00 Portfolio Assignment

Please proceed to one of the breakout rooms in Bruce's office. If you have already decided on preliminary groups, you may meet in that group. You can wander around from office to office and engage in discussions. The purpose here is to help facilitate the forming of groups. Hopefully, by the end of the evening, everyone will be a member of a group with some idea of how to proceed. Your faculty will wander around to help facilititate. We may take more time on this if it is needed.

Please refer to the items below to help guide your discussions.

What are possible strategies or a blend of strategies that we could analyze?
For example, inductive reasoning, concept attainment, problem-based learning, synectics, etc.

What possible tools or blend of tools could support these strategies?

For example, databases, spreadsheets, the Internet, word-processing, etc.

How might these be integrated?

For example, using databases to support problem-based learning, using spreadsheets to support concept attainment, etc.

What type of research will help direct our work and support our conclusions?

For example, what research supports the use of concept attainment, what research supports the use of problem-based learning, what research supports the use of databases and spreadsheets, etc.

What are some possible presentation strategies?

For example, how could we use a combination of presentation strategies to maximize our delivery, what presentations have we seen that we felt were outstanding, why were they effective?

Refer here for images of the iMET Cubes.

8:00 - 8:30 Make your TaskStream account

Procedure:

  1. Click on the following link: http://www.taskstream.com/Main/enroll/enroll.asp
  2. Select your Category as "University Student"
  3. Select "First Time Subscription"
  4. An "Alert" will come up in which you can select "California State University, Sacramento"
  5. Choose your subscription rate as "Full Year", "start Fall semester"
    [NOTE: Very important to start in the Fall semester!]
  6. Fill out the rest of the information. Cost will be $40 for the year.

8:30 - 8:45 Breaktime!

8:45 - 9:25 Conceptual overview of TaskStream

9:25 Wrap-up comments