1. Connecting Course and Project
• What are the learning goals of your course? Where do they intersect with your project? (See this recent ProfHacker post by @samplereality on “Planning a Class with Backward Design”.
o to practice critical and creative reading/writing skills
o writing for a wider audience
o dev new tech skills
o collaboration
• How does this project exemplify disciplinary practice?
o reading and writing
o ID audience
o process in addition to product
o collaborative research
• What research methods does this project require?
o collaborative research
• What level of work is required for this project? For example, are these skills that an incoming
• freshman has or can develop or does it require significant prior disciplinary knowledge? Can you define tasks at various levels?
o incoming with some training in writing/reading/tech
o intro to technology

– problem – what if we don’t have the tech support to help make the scoping questions

– drafting in another technology to model the final project and to figure out what kinds of questions need to be addressed
– start with the most basic and ramp up over the course the semester (map example)
– consider using poster or some other wrap up assignment to help students both reflect on their research as “whole” even if their work has just been a short segment