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By: sam shah

sam shah — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:01:07 +0000

I’d love to be involved. So you can count me in, hands down, if we aren’t expected to have to put up lessons daily. As a first year, my lessons are rough, and teach to the book more than I’d like. But having a site like this out there where I would have even more motivation to create and implement one or two potentially amazing lessons each month would keep me thinking, fresh, and inspired.

I also think it’s hard to find good lessons for my calculus class — there seems to be an inverse relationship between higher level classes and lesson plans out there.

By: Bud Hunt

Bud Hunt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:49:57 +0000

I’ll raise a tentative hand. But I want to use the narrative model you reference in another post. And I reserve the right to remind folks, in the middle of a lesson narrative (chock full o’ lessony goodness, of course) that what worked/will work/may have never been tried with actual students – might not work with their students. Or teachers. Or classrooms. Whatever.

By: Ben Bleckley

Ben Bleckley — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:22 +0000

If you could see me, my hand would be up. And agree with the peer-reviewing – maybe a “rate this lesson plan”out of 5 stars or something.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:42:29 +0000

Deal me in. And although it's going on a year old now, you can use the truncated tetrahedron/icosahedron lesson that Dan and I bounced around. For all of those times that you just wish that you could construct not one but TWO of the five platonic solids in one class! It's definitely not my original work so I can't claim credit, but I still enjoy using this one each year.

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:36:01 +0000

Hello, all,

Glad to see this is moving forward! This is awesome!

I’ll be collecting up and organizing some ideas over the next few hours in response to the questions/ideas raised here —

Cheers,

Bill

By: H.

H. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:16:24 +0000

The peer review idea is brilliant. Yay for Mr. K.

By: Dina

Dina — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:14:59 +0000

ooh…the cool kids are doing this, aren’t they.

::raises hand to participate::

I’d pitch a peer review process. Rubrics. Commitment to team with two other participating teachers electronically (one same content, one out of content). Share it, review it, revise it, publish it. This will already make the content ten times more viable than the junk out there on the ‘net now.

Plus, some kind of entry filter. As in, please submit lessons that have ACTUALLY been implemented. And a place to document this anecdotally/quantitatively.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:10:31 +0000

I have to second Mr. K’s concerns about lesson plans being worthwhile. If the bar is set with Dan’s work, it would be a tough challenge to meet but a site worth visiting.

I teach elementary so I don’t know if my participation makes sense. But I work with a host of phenomenal teachers and I know I could ‘steal’ ideas from them.

By: Jason Dyer

Jason Dyer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:08:26 +0000

I’d like to know the exact parameters more first, but yeah, I’m in.