CLASS 08 | APRIL 03 | YOUR RESEARCH

 

 

CLASS FOCUS

Identifying your personal area of design research/expertise, gaining an understanding of the community who is evolving understanding, knowledge, and thinking on the subject through conferences, publications, listservs, etc.

 

WORKSHOP:

10:00 - 12:00: Karen Baxter, Managing librarian for Film Services and the Moving Image Collection; Images Services and the Visual Resource Collection. In this workshop we'll survey the tools and resources to help identify the status of your research interest and the community that is evolving new understandings, knowledge, and thinking through conferences, writing, design projects, etc.

 

During the workshop you'll be working towards the shaping of a quasi-literature review. This review is really just list of resources and a paragraph describing your sense of where things stand on the research topic. Note the assignment due next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK

APRIL 10: DEVELOPING A SYLLABUS

 

 

ASSIGNMENT

1. Create organized list of resources on your research topic including publications, papers, articles, listservs, conferences, projects, etc. Use Chicago Manual of Style citation style shown here.

2. One paragraph summary on the status of your research topic: Who are the main discussants; what seem to be the key issues/interests being discussed; why is this subject seen as important.

3. Please send to me as a PDF by 9am Tuesday, April 10

 

READINGS

1. Meredith Davis, "The Anatomy of a Student Learning Experience" presented at AIGA Pivot Conference, October 14, 2011

2. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, excerpts from "Chapter 1: Backward Design," Understanding by Design (Pearson Education: New Jersey) 2006

3. Robert F. Mager, excerpts from "1: Objectives," Preparing Instructional Objectives: A critical tool in the development of effective instruction, (CEP Press) 1997