{"id":12,"date":"2020-09-15T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/onlineassessmentquilt\/?p=12"},"modified":"2020-11-02T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T21:27:48","slug":"assessment-idea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/2020\/09\/15\/assessment-idea-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating rich community building activities in an online environment (Pam Shaw, Mark Holland and Felicia Fischer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Key quote<\/strong>: \u201cThere was trepidation; would they get enough out of zoom?  But it worked.  It worked because everyone suspended their belief that it wouldn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assignment challenge<\/strong>: How to build community in a cohort environment when students are online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the MCP program, the first week of the semester is Orientation Week where students from a variety of backgrounds, are given an opportunity to dive deep and authentically into the world of community planning. Orientation week is designed to initiate students into the program, but also to create the feeling of belonging to a cohort. Traditionally, first and second year students work in groups on a land-based project where they conceptualize redesign plans for a local client (Pam: can you give an example of a client here?). The projects begin mid-week of the orientation and on Friday student groups present their project to everyone in the program, local planners and members of the community. This year, with everyone being online, how were they going to get students together? How could they work on a local area if they couldn\u2019t get to it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution<\/strong>: Virtual planning project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pam worked with Mark Holland, fellow MCP faculty, and Felicia Fischer, 2nd<\/sup> year MCP student and VIU Media Studies graduate, to develop the \u201cGreat Streets Project\u201d: a land-based project that uses Google Earth to allow students to virtually visit the area they must redesign. Student groups were assigned a \u201cbad street\u201d \u2013 one of many streets around the world that are renowned in planning circles to be poorly designed \u2013 and they had to work together, using principles of planning, to \u201cfix\u201d it. They had to break it apart, make changes to make it better. To change it into a Great Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of this low-stakes assignment was to initiate students to the planning profession and to build community within the cohort. In reflecting on this experience, Pam believes these objectives were met. In fact, students produced results of remarkable quality because of the nature of the task and the accessibility to rich and robust online information. Students  rose to the challenge, utilized remarkable creativity and gelled as a community of professional practice, recreating the atmosphere of togetherness that is vital to a cohort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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