Collabrative Class Making

I am posting this before editing because i just want to get it out into the world I will cross out this part once I feel that I have tried thouroly to edit my remarks. Also this is just rambling I just let my self work through this , I haven't really check for logical incosistancies or even wheter or not I have thought through all the ramifacations yet.

collabrative class making

in response to question about current status of writign track and in particular what to do with beca 670

I think in any give class its presumptive to assume anything about students before they show up. I think that it is exactly these assumptions that get us all into trouble. For example students will be held to lower and lower standards because teachers continue to assume the worse(Mayby?). To fight that I would like suggest that we do something like collabrative slyabys making.
If a slybus is a contract between the tecaher and the student then I do belive that the student should have some ability to negotiate the contract. I know that this is way against the rules, that students aren't suppose to question the actually enviroment they are taught in. I am not the only one to think this way, see Jerry Farber article.
If then we all agree that students are to be included in this process we should build the sylybus together. How could this work. I will use beca 670 as an example. We first start out by talking about goals. The teacher has goals for the students and the students clearyly had goals for themselves, as the classroom showed us. I think that if on the first day we talk about the goals and then how the class was devised we can cleary develop and agenda or a simple list of topics.
After we have developed this quick list we can then go through the list and find out if any of the students know about these things already. In the cast of making links. I think there were at least 2 - 3 students, mayby more, that kenw how to make a link. As we all saw one teacher was wildly spread thin and it took the better part of the class too teach links. I think links shouldn't take more then a half hour , but I am just a student and a techie. I understand that it is completley possible that I underestimated the time it would take. In the end though I think there is a solution. Instead of having one teacher teach everybody place the people who know how to link into the teacher position for that topics. In the case of links we could have broken the class apart after one group demonstraiton and then had 3 groups. And then the teacher could roam between the leaders after there has already been a filter of the day teacher(or student teacher).
We could then apply this type modle to every topic that came up. This would allow us to rapidly cover the technical aspests of the class. Leaving more time for the class wide discussions and working on the main projects.