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lect00, Mon 01/06

First day of class

Announcements

Goals

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

We handed out ic00 first, and then ic01 only after ic00 was finished.

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

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.

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