October 26 2011

Topics Discussed:

• CIRAL Status updates
• Review of previous week's self-delegation of roles
• Agenda items
• Galen's timeline/prioritizing tasks
• Research component to seek past contract/project records from academic deans and possibly the Writing Center
• Setup of a forum for "off the record" discussions
  • Brandon has offered to set up a Google Group
  • Forum Activity: all have agreed to contribute to this forum before class next Wednesday
• Asset Mapping: everyone shall contribute their skills
  • Class Asset Map has been established at the bottom of the CIRAL page under metacognition
• Training programs for future facilitators/staff
• Gary's 5 requirements for preparation of CIRAL presentation to the Dean of evening and weekend studies
  • Core Cirriculum
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Structure of Core Class
  • Defined hours of expected work
  • ???
• Possibly Invite the Dean to attend a scheduled class time where we could present CIRAL
• Gary has offered to post links to pertinant sections of the Faculty Handbook
• Doug has considered asking Ellen to attend our class for either week 6 or 7
• Gary has suggested that we embrace the importance of multimodels
• Reevaluate the 4crd moldel to become an 8crd model
• Micheal read his course description draft for the catalog
  • Comments/Suggestions are encouraged
  • It was suggested that "civic intelligence" should be of greater emphasis
• Identify 5 projects designed as examples that can interface with the skills that we build in the core class
  • Research potential partnership oragnizations
• Write a guide to structure the project developments and introduce individual contract applications
  • Provide ideas for how to create projects by implementing metacognition exercises
  • Focus on how to form a lasting bond with a community and determine what services one can offer
• Find past fragments of collective efforts towards civic intelligence and compile them into a current handbook
• Triangle model: what did you learn, how did you learn it, and why is it important?
• Start a pool of pertinant texts that could be accessed by CIRAL participants/faculty
• Document our failures as they may be successful in other situations
  • Develop methodologies by performing quick small group workshops/activities/exercises to identify what kind of group work exemplifies and fosters civic intelligence