Hello Everyone!

As I posted on the class discussion board, I would very much like to continue to work on a Gardening Project. I have done a good deal of research on the topic already and would like to share in your ideas as well. The project assignments are fairly involved but individual so collaboration here is crucial.

Since Chad was so kind as to begin the blog, I will be glad to do the first concept map in Inspiration. To do this, we all have to share our general ideas about the scope of the project. What concepts would we like to teach about gardening? What do we know/need to know? What would make this project useful to students?

My next post will be my project ideas and a synopsis of the first lesson I already wrote. Since everyone has to do their own lesson plan, I want to make sure no one duplicates mine. I also did the Google Map assignment last semester. I realize it may not fit into what this group comes up with for the project but it is sort of general so I hope we can use it. I hope I am not overwhelming anyone by jumping ahead but this semester is going to fly by I think.

It is great to meet you and I look forward to a productive partnership with each of you. I love the idea of professional collaboration...four minds are definitely better than one!