Sunday, April 13, 2008

Thing 15: Collaboration

Recently, I collaborated with a Business Marketing Class in my Chaska High School. I worked with this teacher in developing a Fair Use, Copyright and Intellectual Property lesson for her classroom, scheduled a classroom time to teach the lesson, and then followed with an evaluation of the lesson. I will be doing it again this quarter and from the evaluation, the teacher and I met and decided I could save her an additional day of teaching if I merely incorporated a couple of other things in my lesson on Intellectual Property - Patent/specifically Business Patent.
Went very well and will continue to collaborate and change as needed.
Barriers: Time to plan/allowing time away from Media Center to spend in classroom teaching -- pressures on Media Center staff during that time...when 3 classes booked at same time.
HUGE Benefits outweight barriers...students and staff aware that we are also teachers and information specialists and can save students and teachers time and energy that can be placed in other areas needing expertise. Especially important to do followup evaluation so the experience can be maximized. I can't ever remember not benefiting from the final evaluation and changes to be noted for future presentations prove invaluable.

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