Writing Response #8

Please settle in for a long WR.  If writing makes/helps you think, then please write out your considerations; if writing works best after consideration, then please save your writing for step five.  Do whatever works best for you.

While you are welcome to share this document and then to read and respond to others' WRs, these are not mandatory steps for WR#8.  Feel free to generate your own document without feeling hindered by performance anxiety.  Again, do whatever works best for you.

1. Consider your WR#1 response; then consider your WR#5 response.  (If you anticipate merit in considering all  your WRs, then by all means, please do that.)  Now please review the TEC Menu prewriting on which we collaborated in June by following the provided link.
2. Now consider the process by which you make curricular decisions: how you learn about a new thing, how you recognize the need for a new thing, how you incorporate a new thing, how you teach a new thing, how you evaluate the effectiveness of a new thing, how you revise or abandon a new thing, how you share your new-thing experience with others.  How well can your new-thing process work for new tech things?
3. Next, consider the new tech things to which you are currently committed and about which you are excited to implement this year.  What is it about this new tech thing that engenders your commitment and excitement?
4. Finally, consider the new tech things that spark the opposite reactions.  What new tech thing don't you like?  What new tech thing will you not embrace this year--or ever?  What is it about this new tech thing that prompts this rejection?
5. Now it's time to write.  Based upon your considerations, please draft your own TEC Menu: an instrument that supports your evaluations of tech-related endeavors.  (TEC = Technology Evaluation Criteria.  Tracy's attempt at cleverness.  Sorry.)
6. After you've created your initial draft, please peruse the TEC Menu: Building the Basis for Teaching with Tech, a GooForm that grew from our July 10th Campfire.  At this point, you are also welcome to share your draft and/or to read and/or respond to your colleagues' drafts--whatever makes you happy.
7. (If at any point during this drafting process you wish to take a break, please do so.  I know I'll have to step out at some point.)
8. Now please polish your TEC Menu.
9. At this point in the workshop, we will view the process of creating a Google Form.  Great fun will ensue.  Or else.
10. As I demonstrate how to create a GooForm and unveil other fun GooForm options and opportunities, one or more volunteer ATIers will gather the information into a how-to document.  Then you will create a GooForm based upon your TEC Menu.
11. Please now share your GooForm with the group via email invite (do not include the form in the invite as doing so makes a mess).
12. Now you get to take each others' GooForm surveys.
13. Once you have completed everyone else's survey, go back to your own and check out the ways in which to view the results.
14. Now it's time to write again.  What have you learned? about your instrument? about GooForms?
15. Finally, revise your TEC Menu again, hopefully creating a "final" draft.  If you feel ready to do so, create a new GooForm to capture your updates.  (Trust me: revising a GooForm usually creates more problems than it solves.  You're also most welcome to prove me wrong.)
16. If time remains, complete your own TEC Menu survey for one of the tech things you identified in step three above.