If you are at all like me, you are probably using your upcoming Christmas holiday in part for technology course development. Time to re-work or develop projects to replace ones that you are not pleased with anymore. Sometimes, perhaps more often than not I sit down to develop a unit of work and am faced with writers block. The new unit planner is fantastic, because first and foremost I am not starting with a white page. It has a few other advantages as well though. Stage 1 is a great brainstorm sheet for me. I often write in the Area of Interaction I want to work with, and the basic concept I want to teach, and then figure out the unit question from there, like sorting out a jigsaw puzzle. A few years ago, I decided to let the students do this work instead.
I have three methods of getting the students to write my unit plan.
