Just got back from our second meeting. Thanks for coming everyone; it was really great to see you all. My apologies for going overtime.
I've added a couple of slides about this wiki to the presentation. Here's the updated version. If you have any suggestions on how this presentation can be improved, please feel free to post them in this thread. I'm sure some of you are far more tech-savvy than me. As with everything else we're developing, we'd like to leave this presentation for the next generation of TAFs.
For those who couldn't make it to the meeting today, we basically worked in small groups and discussed what each group is going to do to complete their respective module. We merged module teams such that we now have only four teams, three of which are responsible for two modules each. Here are the new teams:
- Module 1 & Module 3: Michelle, Carol, Mehdi, Steven, Gurveen, Ginger and Travers.
- Module 4 & Module 5: Christina Law, Don, JOnathan, Jeanine, Poorani, Urvi and Arjun.
- Module 2 & Module 7: Laurence, Trish, Jiaguan, Christina Neuner , Shawn, Abbie and Carrie Anne.
- Module 6: Greg, Mark, Heather and Michal.
A few important points (that I can recall) from these discussions were:
- Module 7 will be broken up into two modules. Creating assignments will be separated from grading.
- Module 1 (Roles, responsibilities, and rewards of TA-ing) will highlight the rewards of TA-ing with focus on near-term rewards.
- Module 6 (Teaching with technology) will talk about assessing the usefulness of technology.
If there are other important points that I'm missing, feel free to post them. I believe each team will be coordinating their efforts over the email (or you can use this forum).
Our next meeting in scheduled for Wednesday, January 23, 2:00-4:00pm.
Hope everybody's semester ends well and …. happy holidays!