Sponsors Summer 2009

The following is a list of sponsors for this blog:
Canada Summer Jobs
FACTS
Centralta Tourism Society
Collaborative Information Networks
Greater ST. Albert Catholic Schools
Ecole Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d'Youville

Conversation Overview

This is a template for a one to two hour conversation at the Provincial level following the Ministry of Education Local Conversation Kit. See Tricom Conversation on Education for an example of a basic conversation.done using this template. For more on our dialogues see Inspiring Educational Dialogue

To report the conversation to the minister use the form from the conversation kit. To access the pictures you need a password. Email factsc@gmail.com to get more information.

As St. Albert prepares to celebrate the 150th anniversary (see St. Albert 150 + Big Lake Settlement Project), we are encouraging participation in an alternate conversation on local heritage (history) education. See scope & sequence for current Alberta Social Studies Curriculum.

Participating in the alternate conversation (See activities marked 1a etc), will take additional time. If you don't have time to do both you can choose to do either activities 1-5 (seeActivities 1-5 as reported to Alberta Education) or 1a-5a.

You also have a choice to participate in the conversation as a group in a physical location or online. To get more information about participating in a conversation (Online or In Person) Email factsc@gmail.com.

After you are finished with this conversation you may want to explore the Summer Heritage Network.

Instructions on using the blog

To view all the posts click on the Inspiring Education title at the top of the blog. then scroll down to the post you want.

To go to the next activity after commenting click on older post.

To see examples of how to make a comment to an activity see TRICOM CONVERSATION ON EDUCATION PART A

Who are the participants in your group

Group Discussion Guidelines

• Everyone has wisdom.
• We need everyone’s wisdom for the wisest result.
• There are no wrong answers.
• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• Everyone will hear others and be heard.

List who is participating your group: (number of people, affiliations, etc. not names; e.g., 10 people – three mothers and two fathers of school-age children; five grandparents two grade 12 students):

Use the name/url option to identify your group (e.g. Tricom 1)

If you are participating online, join an existing online group and use the group name to identify your comment on who you are. Or form your own group of two or more by working with someone else who is also participating in the conversation online. Keep to the same group and read their comments as you participate.

ACTIVITY 1a NOTES – Picture Activity on Past Heritage Learning

Facilitator direction to participants:Take a moment to think about your past heritage learning experiences. Go to A Pictorial History of St. Albert to choose a picture or choose a picture from the Internet, that best reflects your thoughts and feelings towards your past learning experiences.

Use name/url to identify the image /photo selected (copy and paste the caption) e.g., A35 Child Playing With Bubbles.. If you choose a picture from the Internet put a title in name and put the web address in url.

Then comment on "Why you picked the image (photo) and what story does it remind you of."

ACTIVITY 2a NOTES – Picture Activity on Future Heritage Learning

Facilitator question to participants:“If you were born today, what hopes, dreams and aspirations would you have for heritage learning in the next 50 years?”

(Click here to pick an image or choose an image from the Internet to reflect your ideal heritage learning experience?)

Use name/url to identify the image /photo selected (copy and paste the caption) e.g., B5 Rainbow Over Field. If you choose a picture from the Internet put a title in name and put the web address in url.

Then make a comment on "What this photo represents for your hopes for future heritage learning?"

ACTIVITY 3a – Conversation on Heritage Learning

Facilitator questions to participants:. Read your comment to Activity 2a to others in our group.· What words, phrases or images do you remember hearing or seeing?· What did you hear that we had in common?

Use your group name for identification (name/url). In a comment to this post record responses to the second question asked. "What did we have in common?"

Optional: If you have time, compare your responses with those from other groups to see what you have in common. Use name/url to indicate which groups are compared and comment on what you have in common.

ACTIVITY 4a NOTES – Heritage “I-mail”

You have an opportunity to send an “I-mail” (“I” for inspiring) message to someone of your choice about what is really important to you about heritage learning in 20 years. Address it as follows:

In a comment to this post finish this sentence you may add other sentences to complete your message "When I think of Heritage learning in 20 years, I hope...

Identify your comment by using name/url to address your comment to someone like To: Mom, my daughter, my son's teacher

Activity 5a - Table Activity: Characteristics of Heritage Education in the 21st Century

Facilitator questions and directions to participants:

List as many characteristics of heritage education in 2029 as you can think of (What would you like to see in heritage education.)

Put your group number in the name/url and then list as many characteristics as desired separated by commas.

Optional Group Activity: What did we see in common? What common themes do we see?

Look at the comments for your group and develop themes for the comments. Next use name/url to identify your theme for a new comment and copy all the comments for that theme to the new comment.

What were people most passionate about?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

What was the most important point or topic discussed?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

What was the most unexpected or surprising thing you heard?

Optional: Make a comment for your group

FACTSnet Guest said...

Students making diligent efforts in a creative way to publish what amounts to nonsense. Below are some of the creative publications.

Group 8 said...

We all had same images. It was really creepy, because it was like we all mind tapped into each others minds, and we chose the same pictures. In a sense, it shows how connected we are as a group, mentally, and physically. Technically not physically, but in a really special sense, yes, physically. I think that as a group we have grown into each others minds like seaweed, floating in the depths of the deep blue sea. Our group has a strong bond that can never be broken, because of the simple fact that our minds are connected and if one of us were to do anything bad, the others would destroy their mind. It would be a last resort method, but it would work. To conclude, I think that we are the strongest group out of all of the other groups, because no other group has the same mental connection that we have, and don't share the same views on life. So to answer the question of whether or not our group will last, I can tell you that without a doubt our group will last for 10 lifetimes. Even when we die, our group will be together in spirit. We will be buried together, and our minds will still be tapped, but will converted into the brains of the smartest mamas, the dolphins. Once there we will learn how to speak dolphin, while teaching the other dolphins English, and when we are finished that, we will learn how to breathe without water, and we will learn how to walk like humans and learn like humans. When we finish we will kill the humans, and create more dolphin humans,so that we can rule the world in peace and harmony. It started with three strangers in a strange survey room, but it will end with three dolphins who rule the universe.

June 18, 2009 9:51 AM

FACTSnet Guest said...

Hello, my name is Ewala. I come from the planet Alawe, in the galaxy Ewala, in the universe Alawe. But the point is I tried. If you think you need to go to the bakery, please do so now, because I do not want to be interrupted while I tell you my story. ...but anyway, I have been thinking about my happiness lately and have come to the conclusion that I am happy. This is annoying. If you saw a chicken as happy as me, I'll.... You need to be a FACTSnet blog Coordinator (see FACTSnet blog) to access the rest of the comments. See Creative yet inappropriate comments from ESSMY session

Additional comments

If you wish to include a summary of themes that emerged from the discussions, please include it here (optional):

Look at the themes for all comments and make comments.

Summary (Name or Description of Event)

2. Date:

The 18th of June, 2009

3. Location:

ESSMY

4a. Name of Organizer:

David Ibsen

4b. Organizer Contact Information:

Organization: Family and Community Twining Society
Address: 510 Queen Street, Spruce Grove, AB
E-mail: david.ibsen@ualberta.net
Contact Number: H 780-962-8539 M 780-993-7539


5. Conversation participants: see http://inspedsae.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-are-participants-in-your-group.html

Optional: Comments on Using Blogger

This is not part of the Inspiring Education Conversation but feedback on using blogger to facilitate conversations. The feedback will contribute to the CINet Dialog Protocol online conversation.

Use name/url to identify what feature of blogger you are commenting on. Then make comments about using blogger.