Wrapping, Waving and Wishing.

Wrapping, Waving and Wishing ----

During the “Wrapping” process --- I looked at all of the information I had selected “as quality resources” and then directly linked this information to the focus I had chosen for my project “Children, Teens and Sleep ---- Why Sleep is Like a Mega Vitamin You Really Want to Take!”

I chose to create a program on “Children, Teens and Sleep ---- Why Sleep is Like a Mega Vitamin You Really Want to Take!” to be held at a public library and to specifically create a flyer promoting this program. This flyer is my final product and can be found at: Forums / Scouts Cohort Group Discussions / Scouts: Grade 6-Adults: Project 1 / A Million Little Things “About Sleep, Health and You!” / Children, Teens and Sleep --- Why Sleep Is Like A Mega Vitamin You Really Want To Take! Flyer --- Final Product (Suzanne Marie Holba)


In terms of “Waving” ---- I believe that this program and related flyer is a pretty good way to “start” to share this information with children, teens and adults --- combined with a number of other ways such as an article in the local newspaper, newspaper blog, school website, school newspaper, and various social networking sites with the assistance of students themselves (often if students mention information or promote the information --- their friends will at least “consider” looking at the information) so I would look for students to write/create information related to “Children, Teens and Sleep ---- Why Sleep is Like a Mega Vitamin You Really Want to Take!” (with a spin that is of interest to themselves and their friends.) I would also look to connect this information with various child and teen events and other parent events.

“Wishing” ---- I thought that my project went well overall. I had quite a bit of fun doing it. And I feel that I learned a great deal. One of the best things I took away from this whole project was the following. I believe that the whole process of information inquiry is incredibly important and can also be loads of fun too. But I also know that I have in the past made the error of saying how important information inquiry is --- but then placing little value (point wise and grade wise) on the “whole/entire” process of information inquiry. I have given most of the points for the “final product” and guess what? My students saw this disconnect between what I said and what I graded on --- and spend most of their time working/worrying about the final product --- at the expense of the whole information inquiry process. My bad!

Related to myself, a few of the weaknesses of the project on my part were not having the time to work with a lot more of the tools that can be used for: concept maps, questioning maps and various other software than can assist with brainstorming, synthesizing and communicating. The really good news is that I now know a lot more about a large number of tools that --- previously I had no idea existed. I have them bookmarked on a Delicious site and I plan on looking at these tools and working with them a great deal more in the near future. And I think this is going to be a great thing!

I will be back with a final posting --- shortly. The President of the United States is speaking in two minutes and I think this warrants a break from my work.

---- Suzanne Ross