Saturday, August 30, 2014

The New School Year

During the first week of school, design thinking began to be visible about both of our campuses. Several faculty members included the graphic on their syllabi and/or on their Haiku (student LMS) pages, or they printed off a color version and had it displayed in their room. As one wandered the campus and visited classrooms, it was easy to spot the logo here and there.

However, our Linda Vista library staff and faculty went above and beyond - the library building is centrally located, and the front windows are visible from many areas on campus. It gets a lot of visual attention day in and day out. Here was their start-of-school display:




Furthermore, in a handful of classrooms, some of our attendees from the mini conference were already breathing life into the design thinking steps with their students in all three divisions. In a few classrooms, students were engaged in a design thinking activity on the very first day of school! Very exciting. As it's the start of the year, faculty are in overdrive, however, we hope to feature a faculty member's reflections on using design thinking during Week One shared here very soon.