[Sigia-l] Card Sort Exercise suggestions?

[James Melzer]

I would recommend a card sort of 'academic subjects' with your students.
The site could be a .edu university catalog, a .org education site, or a
.com textbook site. 

Everyone has at least a passing knowledge of all the subjects, but
enough diversity and flexibility remains to allow for discussion and
disagreement. I am responsible for my university's graduate catalog, so
I can say with some authority that people have a wide range of opinions
about how academic subjects should be organized. 

Print a list of grad or undergrad programs from a couple universities if
you want some overlapping labels for things. Most major universities
have between 50 and 100 programs (at least in the US), which should keep
your students busy for an hour. 

-- 

James Melzer

jmelzer at umd.edu
http://info.umd.edu/~jmelzer



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From: Andrew Otwell <andrew at heyotwell.com>

> I'm having trouble finding a site that lends itself to an hour or so of work
> (so maybe 75 or so pages/cards). I want to avoid food topics or animal
> topics, since this is a group of Swedish students, and for many people food
> names and animal names are difficult to learn thoroughly. (I don't want to
> go through the "tomato as vegetable or fruit" discussion with them,
> either...)
> 
> Any suggestions for a good smallish set of content?

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