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Professional Development Assignment Fall 2011 -- CHDED-UE 1142

This is assignment has two parts:
 * 1) Attendance at Events/Cultural Institutions; and
 * 2)  Wiki reflections and responses.

__Attending Events and Visiting Cultural Institutions__ As part of your development as a professional, you will have the opportunity to attend at least 6 hours of professional development over the course of the semester. Three of your hours should involve attending event(s) can include that help you to learn more about issues of multicultural education, social justice education, social studies education or other events that are connected to the themes of this course. Three of your hours should involve visiting cultural institutions that address issues connected to the course as well.


 * Events may include:
 * conferences,
 *  panels,
 * speakers,
 * protests,
 * community meetings, etc. || Cultural institutions include:
 * Museums
 * Historical societies
 * Historical and cultural sites ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will send emails with announcements about events throughout the semester, and resources will be listed on a web page. You may also learn about events from other sources. If you find out about an event that you would like to attend, please email your instructor the information about it at least 2 days in advance so that we may approve it for the hours. Once it is approved you should also let your peers know about the event by adding it to the wiki page and posting it by email, facebook, etc. If you learn that many of you will be attending one event, please be sure to email the organizers of the event to be sure that they can accommodate all of you. Please do not count events that you are required to attend for other courses or as part of your student teaching experiences.

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discussion Board Reflections__ = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To document your experiences, we will have a discussion board on the wiki in which you will post about your experiences. Please post a short reflection after you attend an event. Make sure you post as soon as you can, as it gets harder and harder to remember to get it done the father away you get from it. The blog posting doesn’t need to be a formal essay. Rather, it is a short reflection in which you informally share your experiences with your colleagues.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Your blog posting should include the following information: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Name of event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Organizer and location of event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Amount of hours of event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Reflection <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -summarize event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -what did you learn? How does it make you think as a future teacher? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -how is it connected to the themes of the course?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RESPONSES: We want the blog to be an interactive space where you learn and share with each other. Therefore, throughout the semester, you must respond to three different postings.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CHDED-UE 2011 - Professional Development Log:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Name:__


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Name of event || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Date || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hours || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Date and title of blog entry ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blog Responses: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please name at least three blog threads that you responded to by writing the poster’s name and event. (For example: Edwin’s entry about Hip Hop Summit).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3)