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=Session 1: Getting to Know You and the Course= toc

Begin with a Poem . ..
We begin with a poem. . . Rainer Maria Rilke's "Live the Questions"

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**Variations on a Theme . . .**
We all begin a course with many questions.

There are short-term questions and long-term questions. Big questions about important projects and small questions about procedures. Parameter questions about guidelines and choices and open-ended questions about personal goals and interests. Practical questions and philosophical questions.

What will I learn? How do things work? What will I need to do? How will I be assessed? What will I need to do? How will this help me grow as a teacher? What will I need to do?

There are some questions that can be answered right away and completely. And others you will need to live awhile.

As we begin this course, tweet your burning questions with the #bookhenge hashtag. In this way you can share both your questions and the answers with everyone and we all learn. In this way you make a contribution.

The best questions are those that spark more questions. Expect to complete the course with more questions than you began. Learning comes more from questions than answers.

Remember: “Live the questions now.” And. . . "p erhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers." As these ECI 521 2010 graduates did. ..

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//Thanks to Michael, Cassie, Angela, and Leigh Ann.//

Session Overview
Essential Question: How can we leverage the funds of knowledge that everyone brings to the course to achieve our maximum potential for collaborating, creating, and contributing purposeful products for a larger audience of educators and teen readers?

This first week and two days of the course will be your time to reflect on your own literacy development during your young adult years, learn about the standards-based outcomes for all, create personal learning goals after taking stock of what you bring to the course, and begin to feel comfortable with the technology. You have eight tasks to complete to help you accomplish these.

Transmission
Transmission (includes important content and/or resources) to lead to transactions and maybe even transformations.

Orientation Tasks
Orientation Tasks include project assignments due and heads-ups on assignments due.

Reflective Assessment Process
The Reflection Assessment Process includes two components: 1. A weekly Critical Reflection post to your blog in which you critically reflect on what you have learned during the week by examining your assumptions and how those may have changed. Due by Sunday 11:59 pm each week (unless stipulated on the Working Syllabus). 2. A self-assessment of each project using the Google Docs rubrics provided to your NCSU Google account. These self-assessments are due when the entire project is complete or can be done assignment-by-assignment. Your choice.


 * No RAPs due this first session. You will self-assess your FOKI-Pre when it is completed in Session 2. Do be sure to post a Critical Reflection (CR) Post to your blog. **