Gettingstarted Guide

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THE BEAR MAXIMUM PROJECT GETTING STARTED GUIDE

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GETTING STARTED GUIDE: Watch the Screencast: Screencast Available from: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGQ5ZThhM Screencast is also embedded within Wiki, Blog, and Ning.

Explore: Explore content on site, and choose a topic that interests you. Evaluate what content is available to the community. For example, go to MIT Courseware post and find a course that interests you from the list: http://www.bearmaximum.com/2009/11/mit-opencourseware.html Browse ʻMom Newsʼ, http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user %2F10204656669028523184%2Flabel%2FMom%20News Start a discussion on http://bearmaximum.ning.com/forum or respond to someone elseʼs. Examine and reflect on those resources in light of their experience of the issue/ topic/challenge/problem, and how it has shaped who they are as a person.

Add: Anything You Want, This is Your Community! Add any additional resources they found helpful to delicious, wiki, or NING, and share your feelings with other participants via comments, posts, etc.

Materials and Handy Resources: Getting Started Guide: Located at: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Getting_Started_Guide Screencast: Located at: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGQ5ZThhM Wiki: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com NING: http://bearmaximum.ning.com Blog: http://www.bearmaximum.com Delicious: http://delicious.com/bearmaximum

Read All About ʻItʼ: Explore: Blog Postings such as: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Great Vaccination Debate: http:// www.bearmaximum.com/2009/11/science-pseudo-science-and-great.html The Importance of Family Dinners: http://www.bearmaximum.com/2009/11/ importance-of-family-dinners.html Think About It: Reflect on personal experience and observations and compare and contrast to those presented. Talk Back: Share your frustrations, Relate via discussion postings, comments, and add additional information and resources.

Materials and Handy Resources: Blog Posts and Blog Tagrolls, Link Lists, RSS Feeds:: Located at: http://www.bearmaximum.com Ning Videos, Discussions, Forum and Chat: Located at: http://bearmaximum.ning.com Wiki Information, Resources, and Discussions: Located at: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com

Old School Love, Marriage, and Sexism: Back to the Future: View pages on wiki relating to Love and Marriage 1950ʼs Style and Sexism. Ponder: Reflect on sexism, gender roles, stereotypes, in the 1950ʼs and today as you view content on http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Love+and+Marriage +1950%27s+Style and http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Sexism Discuss: Post reaction to films in discussion tab of Wiki. How are things different now? How are they the same? How can we break away from the stereotypes and sexism that remains? Do you want to? How will you?

Materials and Handy Resources: Love and Marriage 1950ʼs Style Wiki Page: Located at: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Love+and+Marriage+1950%27s +Style Sexism Wiki Page: Located at: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Sexism

A Womanʼs Place: Query: Find additional resources and information relating to sexism and gender roles. Or, go to http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com/Reference+Materials to download a zip file of scholarly resources related to the topic. Perspective: What does it mean to be a woman? What is a womanʼs proper role? How have women been held back or empowered by sexism and gender? Discuss your ideas and understandings of what you believe a womanʼs role is, and how individuals and society might change and women might take on new roles or revise current ones. Post new resources to Wiki or Delicious Bookmarks. Virtual Roundtable: Discuss changes you plan to make and try them out in your personal life. Try new roles and give and receive feedback via Discussion Forums on Ning.

Materials and Handy Resources: Wiki: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com NING: http://bearmaximum.ning.com Google Reader Feeds: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user %2F10204656669028523184%2Flabel%2FMom%20News

Bringing Inner Changes to the Outside World: Direction: Discuss changes you have made in your personal life. Reflection: Give and get feedback on the change process initiated. Circumspection: Revise and reconcile these changes with your life. Support others in making positive changes by providing adding resource and content to the community, and giving support and encouragement in forums. Get others involved, and support them by referring them to the Getting Started Guide.

Materials and Handy Resources: Wiki: http://bearmaximum.wikispaces.com NING:

http://bearmaximum.ning.com Blog: http://www.bearmaximum.com Delicious: http://delicious.com/bearmaximum

Reference Materials Relating To Unit Plan & Materials: Danieljbmitchell. (2007, June 16). Attitudes toward working women in the 1950s. Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3uryDJzI0 Dolan, A. (2009). Formative Evaluation. Google Docs. Drexler, Wendy, Baralt, Anna & Dawson, Kara (2008). The Teach Web 2.0 Consortium: a tool to # promote educational social networking and Web 2.0 use among educators. Educational Media ! International, 45(4), 271-283, doi: 10.1080/09523980802571499. Duvall, E.R.M, & Hill, R. (1953). When You Marry. #

http://www.archive.org/details/whenyoumarry00duvarich

Gunawardena, C., Ortegano‐Layne, L., Carabajal, K., Frechette, C., Lindemann, K., & Jennings, B. # (2006). New Model, New Strategies: Instructional design for building online wisdom # communities. Distance Education, 27(2), 217-232, doi:10.1080/01587910600789613 Gunawardena, C. N., Jennings, B., Layne, O. L. C., Frechette, C., Carabajal, K., Lindemann, K., & # Mummert, J. (2004). Building an online wisdom community: A transformational design model. # Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 15(2): 40-62, doi: 10.1007/BF02940929 # Hardin, G. (13 December 1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science,162(3859), 1243-1248, #

doi: 10.1126/science.162.3859.124.

Huancaina. (2007, March 27). Are You Popular? Video. # http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EyNvVV_mlc Institute for Womenʼs Policy Research IWPR. (2009). The Gender Wage Gap: 2008 (IWPR #C350). # Washington, DC: Author. Institute for Womenʼs Policy Research IWPR. (2008) Improving Pay Equity Would Mean Great Gains # for Women. Washington, DC: Author. Jayson, Sharon. (2007, May 9). ʻSlacker Momsʼ urge other mothers to chill. USA Today, Health and # Behavior.

Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-396. doi: # 10.1037/h0054346 Mezirow, J. (1981). A Critical Theory of Adult Learning & Education. Adult Education Quarterly 32(3), # 3-24, doi: 10.1177/074171368103200101. Oliver, R. (2000). When Teaching Meets Learning: Design Principles and Strategies for Web-based ! Learning Environments that Support Knowledge Construction. Keynote Speech. ASCILITE # conference. # Oliver, R., & Herrington, J. (2003). Exploring Technology-Mediated Learning from a Pedagogical # Perspective. Interactive Learning !Environments, 11(2), 111-126, doi: 10.1076/ilee. # 11.2.111.14136. Parker, Kim. (2009 Oct 1). The Harried Life of a Working Mother. Pew Social & Demographic ! Trends. ! Pew Research Center. (2007). Motherhood Today: Tougher Challenges, Less Success. Washington, # DC: Author. Prelinger Archives. (1950). This Charming Couple. Video. http://www.archive.org/details/ # ThisChar1950 Propaganda Hound. (2008, November 2). 1950 - Are You Ready for Marriage? Video. # http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79y88_1950-are-you-ready-for-marriage-gov_fun Shaggylocks. (2007, June 6). The Trouble With Women (1959). Video. # http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOxGRuKFwJg Shaggylocks. (2007, June 8). How Much Affection? (1958) Part I. Video. # http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_hkgu6MGc Shaggylocks. (2007, June 8). How Much Affection? (1958) Part II. Video. # http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZqVIJhD6Q&feature=related St. George, D. (2007, March 20). Fathers Are No Longer Glued to Their Recliners: Childcare, # Housework Hours Increase. The Washington Post, A11. Sternberg, R. & Grigorenko, E. (2004). Intelligence and Culture: How Culture Shapes What # Intelligence Means, and the Implications for a Science of Well-Being. Philosophical ! Transactions: Biological Sciences, 359(1449), 1427-1434, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1514 Stevenson, B. & Wolfers, J. (12 May 2009). The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness. American ! Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(2): 190–225.doi: 10.1257/pol.1.2.190 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2008). Married Parents Use of Time Survey. USDL Publication No. # USDL 08-0619). Washington, DC: Author.