30 secs: a whirlwind dramatic tour of lost opportunities for collaboration
1. 5 minutes: iLab teacher dorner as collaboarative utopia
part 1
lost opps
visuals: name tags, signs (lower school, upper school)
- 2 teachers (Kay & Heidi) working in 2 separate classrooms
- another teacher (C) walks by both rooms
- Kay and Heidi are both teaching science, similar units
- Teacher C speaks to himself, "I wonder if kay and Heidi know that they're talking about the same idea about hyptheseses. They should get together and talk. Too bad that they probably never will."
part 2
visuals: pictures of model on webster to serve as backdrop for skit
props: coffee, portfolios of past student projects
- Kay walks into Teacher Corner at iLab, Heidi is brewing coffee.
- Kay starts posting drawings on one of the magnetized rolling whiteboards.
- Heidi looks over, captivated by the vivid colors, and asks very innocently, "Hey Kay, what did your class do?"
- Kay begins explaining, "The first grade classes are studying geometric shapes and the project was making designs with them. These are some of their creative works. I'm very proud. They did a good job."
- Heidi: "That's great. I love the colors and creativity! They have such great ideas! What exactly was the unit focusing on? by the way, do you want some coffee?"
- Kay: "Sure. Thanks. We were talking about different shapes representing different objects in our environment. They observed things like trees, people, toys and we helped them break down what kind of shapes they saw in these objects. So the next thing we did was use wodden blocks to design realistic objects like people or dogs, or cars and then taking that into a 2-d design, which was this project, where they created objects by compiling different shapes. the only criterion was that it had to be something real, no make believe blobs.
- Heidi already having coffee in Cafe.
- Kay comes in the Cafe with her student's work in her hands trying to get coffee.
- Kay: Hi Heidi. How's it going?
- Heidi: Good. They just brewed new coffee. It's pretty good.
- Kay: I can smell it. Pretty good. I should put these on to the display section before I get a cup of coffee.
- Heidi: What's that?? Did you do a science project?
- Kay: Oh~ no. This is the drawings my first graders did for homeork. We are learning about geometric shapes and they went out to find objects and try to figure out what shapes were used in the structure. And now, they are interested in symmetry and I'm thinking of how we can do the next project around that.
- Heidi: Oh~ wow, neat! That's funny because my 8th grade science students are also studying symmetry right now. We're using my microscopes to study bi-lateral and radial symmetry in bacteria and other microbes.
- Kay: Wow, I wish my students could see that too!
- Heidi: Let's work together then! Bring your kids over to my classroom and my students can teach them to look though the microscope. They can work together to make drawings of what they see and we'll post them here.
- iLab facilitator: (overhears conversation while grabbing some coffee) oh heidi, kay. i couldn't help overhearing but you both shoudl take a look into the archives over htere. I've looked through some of them and i remember seeing a symmetry project in there somewhere.
- Cut Scene.
- Narrator will explain that this is a collaboration that couldn't have occurred without the iLab cafe because there was no spacefor teachers of different grades previously.
- symmmetry lesson next step