Just a quick reminder that you should be finishing up your guru guide drafts this week and have a finished draft by May 21, when we’ll begin peer reviewing them. You’ve all made some amazing progress and we’re excited to see your semi-final products! Please let me, Paulo, or Sylvia know if you have any questions or concerns!

I also want to reiterate something that many of you have already discussed with Sylvia: both the content and the format of this guide should reflect whatever you think would be most helpful to educators. Our goal is that these guides will be an accessible source of information for educators looking to learn how to use your tool (or topic) with students. To that end, please feel free to use, modify, or ignore(!) the templates as you wish. By the end of the year, we hope to create some standard format(s), but for now we hope that you’ll design your guides without limits–video, audio, pictures, charts, and anything else (that can be shared via the internet…) are all fair game. We’re relying on the incredible creativity, experience, and expertise you each bring to our team to make these guides valuable!

Please make sure that whatever you end up producing is clearly labeled as your final product in the Google Drive so that it’s easy for other fellows to know what they should review. If you have multiple files, we recommend that you make an “overview” document to explain to peer reviewers how the various components fit together.

Finally, since we’ve adjusted our timeline and goals quite a bit since January, I wanted to make sure you had some idea of what lays ahead this year. Please take a look at the rough timeline below and let me know what you think.

Thanks again for all of your hard work!

Best,

Katy

Revised Fellowship Timeline:

May 1 – May 21 – Finish your online resource guide in form and content areas, even if everything is not “perfect”.

May 22 – June 11 – Peer review (we’ll send more information on this later)

May 29, 9am PDT – Monthly webinar

June 12 – June 30 – Review comments and complete resource guide.

July-October: We’ll take a break from resource guides and focus on developing curriculum.

October-December: Resource Guide, Round 2 (We’ll reflect on what we’ve learned from the first set of guides, strive to come up with a couple of standard formats that incorporate the best aspects of all of them, and then develop the second set of guides on additional topics.)

(These dates are also on the Google calendar.)