Retrospective notes for March 2016 Workshop at Carbon Five

[Anna neyzberg]

March 2016 Notes

Student Retro

- great food!

- high vol:student ratio

- take turns presenting (iron)

- amazing space!

- friendly volunteers

- people enjoy teaching others

- good level spread (purple)

- actually learning a lot!

- straightforward curricula/good for looking back

- titanium, helium volunteers were great

- helium group had good icebreaker

- white board to illustrate

# :/

- add examples of Rails sites to intro

- fresh veggies would be nice

- clearer itinerary for the day

- alternatives to RoR

- try and integrate Ruby intro material into the project more (blue)

- less project or more time (green/blue)

- ^ better breakpoints at the end

- temperature control (zinc = warm; argon = cold)

- more icebreaker at beginning

- brief volunteer intro during intro (maybe during installfest?)

- description of colors on sign up sheet

- optional quiz to help self-place

- more descriptive names?

- reminder of what the colors mean during intro

- have equipment set up ahead of time; make a checklist for this and add to organizer duties

- share link after signup

# :(

- some TAs not as experienced (yellow)

- ran out of food

Teacher Retro

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Carbon Five is awesome! Ventilation Food was great! Variety was good, not just pizza Even for Installfest Students were great, new faces Student/Teacher ratio great Sorting was smooth despite done today A/V equipment is stellar IRON room had great whiteboards Co-Teaching with a writing/presenter format worked well TAs being pro-active Students were engaged	“Do Not Erase” signs would be helpful Teacher notes on curriculum after workshop would be good for actively working on curriculum Perhaps with such a big teacher/student ratio, students can choose projects to work on.   RSVP System needs to be addressed.	Pre-sorting was confusing/misleading for teachers in terms of curriculum Lack of available whiteboards/writing space in some rooms Blue curriculum too big for teachers to teach Student no shows BridgeTroll being more accessible leads to more RSVP’s but not necessarily confirmed attendance Students may have not seen their RSVP cancel e-mail Ventilation wasn’t that good for other rooms Retro times should be more presented and transparented

RSVP System Ideas

• 24 hour window reminder for cancellation?

• Double confirmation?

• No Show Dashboard item for BridgeTroll organizers/admins/ops

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