Activity: Check-in & Community Building
(no submission)Purpose:
- Make (more) friends, think about your study group(s), and kickstart our learning community.
- Get familiar with our course
- Verify that you have access to the course's Piazza
You will have ~10 minutes to complete this activity. To facilitate your conversation, you may want to delegate a timekeeper to ensure you get to all of the tasks.
Tasks:
- Team with 1 or 2 of your neighbors – try to make new friend(s)
- Get to know your team. Using the two-breath rule, introduce yourself, share your name, major(s), the year you are in.
- Refer to the course website,
download and complete
a crossword
(and have fun!)
- Be prepared to share your solution to the class
- Be prepared to ask (class-related) questions
- Login to Piazza.
Post a short introduction as a follow-up discussion in the "A bit about myself" note.
Tell us
- Your name, major, and year.
- Where you are from and/or where you are now.
- Your career goals.
- Why you are taking this course.
- One thing you are curious about this course.
- One fun fact about yourself that is not on your resume/CV (and you would like to share).
- [Optional but Highly Recommended]
Please consider embedding a current picture of yourself inline with your Piazza post
- Some of your official photos in Canvas and SIS may look different from your current appearance, or the names you prefer to use may differ from administrative records.
- Including a fresh picture helps your peers, the teaching assistants, and course instructors map your name to your face.
- More importantly, it helps us build a cohesive community of practice that extends inside the classroom, through the semester, and into your post-college professional careers.
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