Decon+Collaboration

Collaboration between Laurie Kent and Michelle Holloway
 * January 23, 2012** - Laurie intiates contact via email to ask about partnering.


 * January 24, 2012** - Michelle replies yes to partnering and gives Laurie her personal email address and cell phone number. laurie replies back with her personal email and cell number.


 * February 1, 2012** - Laurie contacts Michellev ia email to ask if we are still partnering. Information was being added to the class wiki.


 * March 11, 2012** - Laurie emails Michelle to confirm that we are still partners for 3.2 and that we would have an elementary concentration.

**March 18, 2012** - Contact was made by Laurie via email to see of a possible face to face would work.
 * March 14, 2012** - Michelle emails Laurie that everything posted to the class wiki looks good and gives her personal email and cell phone number again.

**March 19, 2012** - Michelle responded to let her know where she lives near her and would be up for a face to face meeting to work on the project. We also discussed which wiki would be used for the project. Laurie responded and suggested we do Main Idea as our reading comprehension strategy. We also discussed meeting face to face on March 25.

**March 20, 2012** - Michelle agreed via email to the face to face meeting.

**March 22, 2012** - Laurie emailed asking that we use Michelle's wiki since hers was being used in her final portfolio. She also wanted to confirm meeting face to face on March 25. Michelle replied to her email agreeing to which wiki would be used and confirming face to face meeting.

**March 23, 2012** - Michelle emails Laurie with ideas of books to use for a main idea lesson. Michelle also suggests that we use emerging level. There was an email discussion of possibly doing sensory images over main idea. Michelle also suggested using Mindomo for the mind mapping tool.

**March 24, 2012** - Laurie emails Michelle about emergency appendectomy; this leading to cancellation of face to face. Mcihelle replied and mentioned starting the mind map.

**March 25, 2012** - Laurie emails to let Michelle know she is still in the hospital and cannot meet face to face.

**March 26, 2012** - Michelle emails Laurie a share link to share the mindomo mindmap. Laurie emails back stating that it looks good so far. Michelle texts Laurie to see if there is an interest in meeting face to face. Laurie calls Michelle and the mind map is discussed as well as where to go from this point.

**March 27, 2012** - Laurie emails Michelle reminding her to copy and paste the graphic organizer into the wiki. Laurie also emails for clarification on what specifically this part of the project entails. We decided that we begin with p. 104-105 in our textbook.

**March 28, 2012** - Laurie and Michelle email back and forth clarifying what needs to be done and to figure out where the mind map fits in. Laurie calls Michelle to further discuss the project. Michelle texts Laurie about work that has been done on this collaboration page as well as mention the TWU outage. Michelle also texts Laurie about work that has been added to the graphic organizer.

**March 29, 2012** - Michelle and Laurie text back and forth regarding what still needs to be done on the graphic organizer. Michelle adds to the graphic organizer while Laurie works on the mind map.