recipes for COaTI
this morning I was thinking about the upcoming COaTI and the work that I'm doing now to try to weave together the different curriculum strands into clearer themes running throughout the three sessions. All the elements are there, though as always some need more work to get them to a place where I'm happy.
I'm a very visual person, and I love notecards, so I was thinking about writing out a shot description of each session on a notecard and arranging them all on a big table so I could see the whole program and have the ability to move things around to see how the flow worked. As I was imagining this, my brain thought "hey, this is kind of like having a box of recipes on notecards." Followed shortly by "hey, I wonder if I could use recipe software to manage COaTI curriculum."
It would work something like this: basically, each session would be a recipe. Every recipe has a title (session title), description, ingredients (materials needed), and instructions for cooking (methodology). When its time to assemble the facilitation plan, I'd just select the recipes I wanted in the order I wanted them, and the software would produce:
- the "menu" - a list of the sessions and a description of each which would be agenda we send to participants.
- the shopping list - the materials we need to assemble for the COaTI.
- The list of recipes - in this case the facilitation plan for that COaTI.
I think it just might work. What do you think?


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