Wednesday, August 8, 2001

4 pm to 5 PM

Meet in the State Room at the Executive Inn for informal gathering.

5 PM to 6 PM

Introductions: Three things

• Who are you and where are you from?
• What do you do?
• Current favorite movie or book?

  Expectations:

• Technology retreat expectations
  • What do you expect from the retreat?
• Program expectations
  • What do you expect from the program?
  • Record this.

6 PM to 6:15 PM

Opening ceremonies

• Virtual Ribbon Cutting for iMET 3

6:15 PM to 6:30 PM

• Check in 
  • What's this?

6:30 PM to 6:45 PM

• Agenda for the evening
  • Intentions: iMET Ethos
  • Undefined view of things
    • Read
    • Reflect
    • Revisit

Creating the iMET story

• Song: One verse and chorus

6:45 PM to 7:00 PM Liquid Balance Adjustment

7:00 PM to 7:45 PM

• Ice Breaker Activity
  • "Getting to Know you Wheel"
  • Icon Activity

7:45 PM to 8:30 PM

BBQ

8:30 PM to 9:00 PM

• Wants, Needs, Gots
• "Campfires in Cyberspace"
• Circle
  • What's this?

Thursday, August 9, 2001

8 am to 9 am

Continental breakfast at Executive

9 am to 9:45 at Executive Inn

• Check in
• iMET Story
• "What's your style?"
  • Self-awareness leads to empathy for others
• Creating the favorites database

9:45 am to 10:30

• "Campfires in Cyberspace"
• Learning Conversation

10:30 am to 11:30

• Distributed Knowledge
  • Selected readings
    • Chris Dede
  • Group discussion

11:30 am to 12:30

Lunch: selected locations

Caravan over to campus

1 PM to 5PM On campus

• Knowledge Webs
  • First, a little theory
• Excel: Now, a little praxis
• "What's your Style?" Activities

5 PM to 7 PM

"Family Feud" database activity

7 PM

• Circle

7:15 PM

Dinner Buca di Beppo's

Afterhours

The Executive

Friday, August 10, 2001

8 am to 9:30 am

Continental breakfast at Executive

9:30 am to 10:00

• Check in
• iMET Story

10:00 am to 10:30

Move to CSUS

10:30 am to Noon

• Collaborative learning in online environments
  • Question from Learning Conversation
• Newsgroups
  • Phorum
  • Distributed tool use
    • Cooperative Groups
    • Learning styles
    • iMetiquette
    • Yahoo!Groups ListServ
      • imet_cubes@yahoogroups.com

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Noon to 1 pm

Lunch on your own.

1 pm to 4 pm

1:00-1:30

• The Graduate Experience (JoAnne)
• Textbooks

1:30-2:30

• Tapped In

  2:30-2:45 Break

  2:45-4:00

• The Inductive Strategy
• What do you know about technology over time?
• The Processes of Thinking

4 pm to 5 pm

• Break
• Synectics

5 pm to 7 pm

Dinner (probably as a crowd!)

7 pm to 9 pm

• Synectics
• Deconstruction

Saturday, August 11, 2001

8 am to 9 am

Continental breakfast at Executive

9:00 - 10:00 Check out of Executive and move to campus

10:30 On campus

• Check in
• iMET Story
• Revisit and Reflect
  • Learning Conversation
  • Inspiration
• iMET Glue More Tapped In experience
  • (Exploring synchronous environments)
    • "Communities of Practice"
    • Groups
      • Numbers 1 + 6
      • Numbers 2 + 4
      • Numbers 3 + 5
• Tapped In Office Remodeling for Dummies
• Tapped In activity for Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 7:00 pm in W1712 (BruceM's office)
  • Between now and Tuesday, login to Tapped In, become a member, talk to Judi, look at all the help features, investigate the vending machine, and claim an office.
  • Create a note.
  • Use the listserv to distribute your office number to the group. 
• Tapped In agenda for Thursday, Aug. 16 at 7 pm will be emailed to you through Yahoo! Groups listserv (imet_cubes@yahoogroups.com). 
• Review online meeting days
• Questions on the Technologies DB research assignment?
  • Become familiar with a database
    • Microsoft Works
    • Microsoft Access
    • AppleWorks
  • Example Retrieval Chart: California Missions
  • Research for Technologies database
    • Alternate: Create a database you can use in your teaching assignment.
  • Read pages 123-141 in Models of Teaching
• Phorum reminder (August 19)
  • Read "Distributed Cognitions" by Roy Pea
  • Post response to Mike's seed questions.

Wrap up

• Wants
• Needs (Microsoft Office purchase)
  • The CSUS/Microsoft Agreement
• Gots
• Circle

 

August 16, 2001

Multiple Intelligences (HTML version)

"Thinking Inductively"

• Read the Research link.
• Read the Model link.

Friday, August 24, 2001

5 pm to 6 pm (Eureka 211)

• Check in and community circle
• Reflecting on recent practices

6 pm to 8:30 pm

• 6:00 - 7:00 Dr. Geni Cowan 
• 7:00 - 7:45 Dinner
  • Provided by textbook fund.

7:45 pm to 9 pm

• 7:45 - 8:45 Esa-ba-tad Adventure
• 8:45 - 9:00 Circle

Saturday, August 25, 2001

8 am to 9 am

Breakfast on your own

9 am to 9:30 am (Eureka 211)

• Check in
• iMET Song

9:30 am 10:30

Assessing online learning

• Open only to those who have participated in all online activities thus far -Tapped In and Phorum.

The Inductive Strategy Part Deux

• Looking at Part II of  the assignment
  • Concepts lead to generalizations
• Introducing AppleWorks
  • Experiencing AppleWorks -Got music?
  • Dinosaurs, Africa and other database contexts.
• Introducing Access
  • Experiencing Access -Got music?
  • Africa and other database contexts.
• Interpretation of Data
  • Do you notice any connections within the records?
  • Are there similarities between certain tools?
  • Were some trends established?
  • Are there any cause and effect relationships that you can see?

Noon to 1 pm

Lunch on your own

1 pm to 3:30 pm

The Inductive Strategy continued (MOTS)

• Application of Principles
  • What would happen if...?
  • Why would you think that "X" might happen?
  • What would it take for "X" to be true?

Deconstruction:  Applications of the Inductive Strategy.

2 pm to 3:30 pm

Tasks:

• Read Chapter 9 in Joyce and Weil;
• Form groups (we want one group of five and three groups of six);
• Collaborate online;
• Develop a lesson plan that features the Concept Attainment model presented in Joyce and Weil;
• Identify the context in which the Concept Attainment lesson will be done;
• Locate and cite at least two references to Concept Attainment other than the text; and
• Be prepared to present the Concept Attainment lesson in the next F2F using a tool format with which your group is comfortable.  You will be given 20 minutes with a 5 minute Q&A.

3:30 pm to 4 pm

• Assignments
• Circle