As we finish up “Designing for Education” this month, take a moment to reflect upon what you’ve read, discussed, learned, and shared this summer.
Before you get started, please take a look at the “Setting Your Goals” activity that you completed in May. Consider the goals you brought to the program and which ones you feel like you’ve been able to work toward. What would it take for you to keep/start working toward your goals.
Next, we encourage you to spend some time first reviewing your own Design Forward portfolio. As always, you can look through your portfolio pieces and any highlights you made. In addition, you’ll now find links when you’re logged into your own portfolio that will allow you to go back and see all of your comments and annotations.
After reviewing your goals and looking through your work, consider the following:
- What are 2-3 takeaways from your June module that you want to keep thinking about or working on?
- What are 2-3 takeaways from Designing for Education that you want to keep thinking about working on?
- When we gather in August (during U Days week), what would you most like to talk about or work on with others in the cohort?
- During the fall semester, what kind of follow-up activity would be most meaningful? Workshops on particular topics? Informal meetings? Structured meetings? In-person or online? Presentations by folks about how they’ve designed something for their own classes? Specific speakers or presenters? Something else? Feel free to brainstorm and think outside the box. We can decide as a group what we want to do this year!
- If you were to continue to engage with the grant, what kind of work would you like to do? More Design Forward modules? A design project focusing on something you’re working on? Supporting others in the grant? Working with the CoLab to refine/expand DF? Something else?
- What worked best for you this summer? What would you recommend we do differently?
Respond to as many (or as few) of these questions as make sense for you. And/or talk about something else.
