Yesterday we had our first meeting with a group of teachers who are planning the framework of the course. We are categorizing our writers into Architects to provide the framework, determine vocabulary and consider assessments; Builders who will write the content and assessments; Framers who will work on academic standards alignment and Finishers who will edit content for consistency, voice and vocabulary.
We accomplished the overall organization of the course by setting up the Historical academic standards chronologically and then supplemented those units with benchmarks from the areas of Geography, Civics and Economics. This work actually went pretty quickly. As the group identified the topics for each benchmark, I created labels in Moodle to place the topic and the benchmark identifying number. Within a few hours we had the entire course mapped out. The next steps are to start planning for a course glossary and start gathering materials for the builders who will start writing the content for the course in early June.
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