The last few months I have been busy with my final project about large scale curriculum design. In the frame of this project, I am going to the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley to join the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading (SEEDS) team.
SEEDS is a large scale curriculum development initiative which aims to help children in the middle-primary grades develop the inquiry skills needed to make sense of the physical world while building fundamental literacy skills. Their products are highly praised, as is their design process. But their work is hardly known among the instructional design and design research communities. (see also: http://lawrencehallofscience.org/node/3107).
To share my time in Berkeley with you, I made a new blog which can be found here: http://maaikeh.blogspot.com/. I intend to post stories and photos every now and then :)
Cheers!
Maaike
