Content+Creation

Course Content Creation is a collaborative, evolving process. Course content in itself is not the end but a means to an end -- the outcomes/competencies are the end (or rather the beginning) while the content is a tool for stimulating learning. Stephen Downes describes the process well in his Huffington Post blog.

I've organized the initial course content according to our three class projects and one individual project designed to help us reach our three course outcomes.

Class Projects: Literary Quality of Young Adult Literature, Trends and Issues in the Learning Through Literature with Young Adults, and The Change Project (Social Justice & Positive Social Change)

Individual Project: Action Learning Project

Here are the resources and activities for each project, presented by weekly session. Through our process, enriched with social media, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to each week's content.


 * Session || Date || Project/Topic ||
 * Orientation || Aug. 17 - Aug. 23

No LIVE Class on Aug. 22 || Process: Getting to Know You and the Course ||
 * Session 1 || Aug. 24 - Aug. 30

LIVE Class Aug. 29 || Getting to Know Young Adult Literature (introduces
 * Literary Quality of Young Adult Literature
 * Literature as Exploration and
 * Literature as a Performing Art ||
 * Session 2 || Aug. 31 - Sept. 6

No LIVE Class Sept. 5 || Literature as a Performing Art -- continued. ..

Literature as Exploration -- continued. . . ||
 * Session 3 || Sept. 7 - Sept. 13

Live Class Sept. 12 || Literature as a Performing Art - culminated

Literature as Exploration -- culminated ||
 * Session 4 || Sept. 13 - Sept. 20

Live Class Sept. 19 || Literary Quality in Books for Young Adults, Culmination (See Session 1)

Introduction to The Change Project (LIVE Class) ||
 * Session 5 || Sept. 21 - Sept. 27

LIVE Class Sept. 26 || Peril & Promise of Young Adult Literature ||
 * Session 6 || Sept. 29 - Oct. 4

Live Class Oct. 3 || Designing Action Learning Projects ||
 * || Oc. 5 - Oct. 11

No LIVE Class Oct. 5 || Fall Break ||
 * Session 7 || Oct. 12 - Oct. 18

LIVE Class Oct. 17 || Nonfiction, the Neglected Stepchild Collaborative Critical Inquiry begins. . . ||
 * Session 8 || Oct. 19 - Oct. 25

LIVE Class Oct. 24 || Nonfiction, the Neglected Stepchild Collaborative Critical Inquiry culminates ||
 * Session 9 || Oct. 26 - Nov. 1

LIVE Class Oct. 31 || Sequential Art/Graphica, A Sign of Radical Change? Collaborative Critical Inquiry begins . . . ||
 * Session 10 || Nov. 2 - Nov. 9

Live Class Nov. 8 || Sequential Art/Graphica, A Sign of Radical Change? Collaborative Critical Inquiry culminates ||
 * Session 11 || Nov. 9 - Nov. 15

LIVE Class Nov. 14 || Whose Face Do I See? Multicultural YA Literature ||
 * Session 12 || Nov. 16 - Nov. 22

Live Class Nov. 21 || Making Bold Choices ||
 * Session 13 || Nov. 23 - Nov. 29

LIVE Class Nov. 28 || Prepping for Jonathan Maberry Interview (+ Thanksgiving Break) Sharing Your Change Project Dystopian Novels ||
 * Session 14 || Nov. 30 - Dec. 6

LIVE Class Dec. 5 || The Change Project Culmination (Interview with Jonathan Maberry) ||
 * Session 15 || Dec. 7 - Dec. 13

LIVE Class Dec. 12 || Action Learning Project Celebration ||

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