lect00

Next Lecture

lect00, Mon 01/07

First day of class

Announcements

• Sorry, no crashers: enrollment is final
• Must attend your actual enrolled discussion section
  • And work with folks enrolled in that section
• Open lab hours schedule

Goals

• You’ll meet several of your classmates that you haven’t met before
• You’ll generate and evaluate some project ideas

Today, we’ll divide into discussion sections, and do some activities that will help with team formation and project idea generation:

We will do these activities in three groups of 26, by discussion section.

Handouts

Actually, we handed out ic01 first (these are numbered in the wrong order), and then ic00 only after ic01 was finished.

• ic00: Meet your Teammates
• ic01: Project Idea Sheet

Instructor Instructions

Seating arrangement

Divide chairs first into separate sections of the room, by discussion section.

Then, arrange students so that you can acheive a kind of “speed dating” setup, where the students in one set of chairs stays stationary, while the students in the other set rotate every 5-10 minutes.

Then, WITHIN each discussion section, arrange chairs into any

• two rows facing each other (e.g. for 26 students, 13 pairs of chairs facing each other)
• multiple rows facing each other (e.g. for 26 students, one row of 6 pairs of chairs facing each other (12 students) and another of 7 pairs of chairs facing each other (14 students)
• an outer circle and and inner circle (this is the best arrangement, but may require more space than the space available; inner circle might get too cramped)

Initial writing activity (done in silence)

The initial writing activity is done individually, in silence, with no discussion.

It is to come up with a project idea.

Subsequent activity

In this activity, students swap project ideas and THEN rotate once.

• Each pair of students now holds a project idea different from the one they or the person initially across from them wrote.
• They then discuss the project ideas they now hold with each other.
• They also do a brief interview with each other.
• They write down the results of these interactions, including both a rating of the project idea
• And then they iterate; swapping project ideas, and rotating AGAIN

Repeat this 5 times, so that each project idea has been rated and reviewed 5 times.