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Discussions can be used to coordinate study groups and group projects or other types of collaborative work. Discussions can be private spaces for students or include instructor and/or teaching assistant engagement.
Students should have specific roles and responsibilities if they are engaging in group work. You may choose to assign roles or ask students to select roles in their groups.
Schedule regular check-ins with groups to ensure that they are working as intended.
Establish project milestones. Ask groups to submit intermediary deliverables to demonstrate their progress.
Give students a means to leave an unproductive group. This may be a weekly survey in which they indicate their satisfaction with their group or an open invitation to talk to you about group dynamics in office hours.
This is where your team will communicate about this project. Your Team Zoom meeting link should be posted here along with the link to your Copy of the worksheet. You may share your COPY of the worksheet with your whole team using their emails or simply post the public link here.
For your first post, please introduce yourself, why you selected this major, what role (Facilitator, Editor, Scribe) you feel that best suits your personality and why.
Please upload your completed Exam 1 Review Sheet Here. You can upload a pdf version or post your Google Doc Sharing Link here. Be sure the permissions are set correctly so that your Professor can access and comment/edit the document.
Only one Study Group Review sheet needs to be submitted per group. The scribe should submit the assignment and the facilitator should make sure it's submitted on time and accessible by the Professor.
Everyone in the group who participated in the project will receive grade points for this assignment. Please be sure to include all group members names at the top of the document and include absences information.
Project Set Up and Research Discussion
This is a group project. You need to go to the People tool in the left sidebar menu, then select the GROUP tab at the top. Scroll down until you see the Groups listed for the Algorithmic Bias Report. Because of the size of this class, there will be two groups listed for each topic. You should select the JOIN link—this will allow you to view the small group discussion forum where your group will work on this project together. Here is more information on how to join a Group in Canvas.
The project directions are included in the assignment directions: (click here to review). For today, we will just select our groups, assign team jobs, and set up the Team Google document.
Go to People/Groups and select JOIN next to the Algorithm Bias Report topic (these groups are marked with snowflakes and lady bugs) you are most interested in working on. Then return to this discussion assignment. Now you will have access to your small group discussion forum. If you don't join the Group, then you won't have access to the small group discussion forum.
Add your email and contact information and preferred Team Job to the discussion forum.
Students should also identify which of the following team jobs they prefer:
Scribe**—responsible for setting up Google Docs and inviting all members. This person should also manage the organizational structure and formatting of the document and submits the final project to the Canvas Assignment.
Facilitator—manages the team communication and schedules the Zoom meeting. This person also acts as the timekeeper to ensure the project meets the deadlines and is uploaded to the Canvas assignment on time.
Researcher—contributes to and comments on the group research and analysis for the project.
Editor—makes sure that the rules of citation and attribution, as well as grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, are followed.
The Scribe should invite all members to the Google Doc and post this link in the Discussion forum for easy access.
**Scribes can also post the Public/UCSC Sharing link in the reply box of the discussion forum and have everyone just add contact information directly to the Google Doc.
Facilitators should set up a re-occurring Zoom meeting and post this link at the top of Google Doc.
The team needs to add their contact information and assigned jobs to the Google Doc. The facilitator should organize a day and time that works best for everyone to meet and discuss this project BEFORE this assignment is due in WEEK FOUR.
Consider using this discussion forum and/or your shared Google Doc to add research and information leading up to the project.
Consider meeting regularly to form a support/study group this quarter.
Post your Zoom link in the reply box of the discussion forum for easy access. You can also send an Announcement from your small Group Discussion area to the whole group that includes a reminder for your meeting time and your Zoom link.
Scribes- after your group has identified who will do what (jobs) via the discussion forum and the date and time for your Zoom meeting, please organize this information at the TOP of your Google document. Facilitators, please add your Zoom meeting link to this document so that you are all connected. This document will be utilized to organize the content for your Team project.
Facilitators—set up a re-occurring Zoom meeting for your team to work collaboratively on this project. Please note the date in Canvas when your final draft is due and make sure your whole team knows this deadline.
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