During last week’s #eltchat about coursebooks and their value/imposition, a number of us were enticed by @chucksandy’s tweet about his dogme class. A number of us buzzed in and told he we wanted to be “a fly on his classroom wall”. Read more about it in the fun etymological/philosophical/DOGMatic post I wrote here.
Since then, many have continued to show interest, and Chuck has helped keep the ball rolling, commenting on that post with:
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“It’s been a week since the initial idea of playing / learning together first came up on #eltchat so let’s take the idea forward while there’s still some “buzz” in the air. Though I’m really buzzed myself by the number of people who think it would be fun to be a fly on my classroom wall, I really do think it would be more useful and fun to collaborate on something together and to do that in a sharing the dogme / embodying Genshai kind of all in it together for the learning kind of way. To get started, let’s do this:
Would everyone who’s interested in getting involved in this project please do three things?
1) leave a comment below indicating where you’re teaching / age group you work with.
2) send me an email to charnelsan mac .com with DOGME FLIES in the subject heading.
3) in the body of the email suggest at least one idea for a collaborative student project.
I’ll then create a google.doc or equivalent with everyone’s ideas listed and invite everyone to join in and collaborate on this doc. What I’m thinking is that we might then divide up into YL / Teen / Adult groups and work in our group to flesh out ideas. Once we get a few solid ideas put together, we can put those to our students who can then decide (maybe by voting?) on which of the projects they’d like to do.
The “project” can be very loosely defined and structured w/ only some samples of possible outcomes modeled (e.g. samples of a podcast / brochure / etc). Then it would be the getting there with our own groups (and maybe across groups) and the way we all share / collaborate / work / play together where the dogme-actics come in.
Thoughts?
Who’s in?
Chuck
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So, if you are interested I’d encourage you to join us in step 1, 2, 3 above, starting with a comment below. I’ll start 
… oh and yes “Dogme freakin’ Rox”, and so does Chuck !
MERCI, dude :)
PS Dogme has a new facebook page with tons of blog links, check it out: click me
