Feedback

From doing these activities students will

Be able to solicit specific, actionable feedback from each other
Get ideas for their DSLs by understanding the design decisions of each others' DSLs.

In class Announcements - 5 min (9:00 ~ 9:05)

Warm-up activity

Your 3 copies of your proposal count for your attendance.

Groups and Roles

Scribes

Take notes about what questions led to good feedback for your group to contribute to the wiki page for the discussion
A head scribe may volunteer to "clean up" the synthesized feedback page we make in the large group discussion.

Managers

Keep track of time
Make a role ticket on the Reading repo for everyone in your group

Ambassadors

Presents the unified thoughts of their group
Talks with instructors at the end about meta class management

Small group discussion - 45 min (9:05 ~ 9:50)

For Monday, in addition to reading a paper, you will be submitting written feedback on each others' proposals. In small groups, take about 12 minutes to read each others' proposals. Then, take the remaining time to in turns: say what kind of feedback you are looking for and ask each other clarifying questions you have.

The goal of this activity is to be able to reduce confusion about the proposals upfront in person. Hopefully then, the feedback you submit for Monday's homework will be concrete and content focused. We hope to reduce feedback clarifying what was meant or about how the proposal was written.

For the large group discussion, ambassadors should prepare to propose types of feedback your group anticipates the whole class will benefit from.

Large group discussion - 15min (9:50 ~ 10:05)

We will convene and synthesize a list of types of feedback that everyone should give for Monday's assignment.

Cool-down activity - 10 min (10:05 ~ 10:15)

All scribes will get together to start their wiki write up to be finished at latest a week from today. You will find writing down what folks wanted to get feedback on useful for doing Monday's homework.

All managers will get together and make tickets for the course. This can include the tickets from their group discussions as mentioned above, a ticket to follow up on the scribe write up, and any other issues they think will be helpful.

All ambassadors will get together with Matthew and Kathleen to discuss how they think the day went, how they think the pacing went, what they are looking forward to, any worries they might have about the class, etc.