Our First Meeting

Once we finally sorted out the whole Kelsey-Kelsey debacle, Laura joined our team and it was full speed ahead!

We met Tuesday, November 8th with Marcie in Furcolo Hall, the education building. We decided to arrive a little bit early so that we could discuss team norms as well as schedule good meeting times before speaking with her.

In general, we found that Tuesday right after class, Wednesday morning, and Friday in the late afternoon work best. Tuesday will be our primary meeting time, while the other two days will serve as backup times should we run into any snags. I was designated tech lead, while Janey volunteered to be the main contact person (between our group and Megan/Marcie).

After meeting with Marcie, we had a better idea of what we'd be working on as the initial description given to us was kind of vague. Essentially, we would be helping her develop teaching workshops for the teachers over at Peck to help them simplify the everyday tasks they have to perform (such as creating a gradebook, which can be done in Microsoft Excel to save time). Ideas were also hatched to create training videos to help promote sustainability after these workshops end - this is to ensure that any teachers who forget what they were taught, or ones that were unable to attend any of the workshops altogether can teach the material themselves. The initial challenges that Marcie anticipated were the varying technical skill levels among teachers slowing the process down, as well as working around the teachers' schedules as these were issues with the workshops they held the previous year.

While we are still unclear on all the details, hopefully we'll be able to visualize a more concrete project once we meet with Megan at Peck and hear firsthand about their needs.