Introducting Today’s Team Activity (5:00-5:05)

(typically Tuesday of week 3)

This activity works with the paper that you were assigned to read:

https://pconrad.github.io/files/paper028.pdf.

Each of you contributed some text to a repo when working on p06 and h01.

As a reminder, for h01 you wrote a summary of material from Section 4 of this paper: https://pconrad.github.io/files/paper028.pdf

Here are those repos:

Team	NOTES repo	Slack
f26-01	NOTES-f26-01	Slack
f26-02	NOTES-f26-02	Slack
f26-03	NOTES-f26-03	Slack
f26-04	NOTES-f26-04	Slack
f26-05	NOTES-f26-05	Slack
f26-06	NOTES-f26-06	Slack
f26-07	NOTES-f26-07	Slack
f26-08	NOTES-f26-08	Slack
f26-09	NOTES-f26-09	Slack
f26-10	NOTES-f26-10	Slack
f26-11	NOTES-f26-11	Slack
f26-12	NOTES-f26-12	Slack
f26-13	NOTES-f26-13	Slack
f26-14	NOTES-f26-14	Slack
f26-15	NOTES-f26-15	Slack

For a reminder of the main themes of each section, click the triangle.

Section	Title	Academia	Industry
4.1	What: Differences in Scope	well-defined, fixed scope	vague, open-ended, evolving scope
4.2	When: Short vs. Long Time Spans	short time spans (days, weeks)	long time spans (months, years)
4.3	Who: Individual vs. Large Team	individuals, pairs, small groups	larger teams
4.4	Why: Learning vs. User Needs	to learn something	to address a user need
4.5	How: Ad-Hoc vs. Professional	ad-hoc tools and practices	professional tools and formal practices
4.6	How Big: Small vs. Large Codebases	small programs	large complex systems

Here’s an overview:

Step 1,2,3: In teams of people that read the same section of the paper as you, discuss that section.
Step 4: At your original tables, discuss the whole paper.

Step 1: Organizing your First Group (Sixteen different teams of six) (5:05-5:10)

Your first breakout group will be with other people that read the same section as you.

Your seating arrangment for this activity is as follows:

Section	Table for all of 5pm section (teams 1-8)	Table for all of 6pm section (teams 9-16)
4.1	1	11
4.2	2	12
4.3	3	13
4.4	4	14
4.5	5	15
4.6	6	16

(Tables 7,8,9,10 will be unused during this activity.)

If you want, you can take your chair with you (and store your “stuff” on the ledge inside the chair).

If you (or one of the folks in the discussion) is on Zoom: Use the breakout room that corresponds to the table number.

Each group should choose one person as the “time keeper”, and a second person as the “scribe”.

Then, go on the course slack, https://ucsb-cs156-f26.slack.com. You should find that there is a dropdown where you locate channels.

Find the slack channel for your table/group and join it, e.g. #ltd-4-1-table-01, #ltd-4-2-table-12, etc. Please note that you will not necessarily see the channel: you’ll have to search for it and then join it You can use the search bar at the top of the Slack interface (with the 🔍 icon next to it).

Once you’ve joined that channel, make a post with your name and pronouns, and identifying which group you are a part of (by your table number). There will be up to eight of you per group if there is full attendance, so you may need to squish in a bit at the tables.

Step 2a: Extra Steps for the timekeeper (5:10-5:15)

Take note of any team members that are participating via zoom.

But: Regardless of whether you have members on zoom or everyone is in person, the timekeeper should

Grab the keyboard/mouse for the computer at your team’s table
Use it to join the zoom session and join the breakout room corresponding to your table number (remember that the information to join the zoom session from an ILP 2211 table computer is on Canvas, at the top of the main CS156 course page)
Log into Slack and join the channel for the table (the one labelled #ltd-4-4-table-04 for example).
(Make a note to log out of Slack when you are finished!)

That way everyone at the table can see the zoom room and the slack channel.

Step 2b: Extra Steps for the scribe (5:10-5:15)

The scribe should, from their own computer:

In case there are online participants (and there will be at least one!) log into to the zoom session and join the zoom room for the table. Turn on your mic and camera so the online particpants can listen in and contribute.
Log into Slack and join the channel for the table (the one labelled #ltd-4-4-table-04 for example)
Share your screen so that as you take notes, everyone can follow along.
On the slack channel for the table #ltd-4-4-table-04, make a note of who is present and absent. There should typically be one representative from each team (1-8 or 9-15); you don’t have to look up the names, but please make a note of which teams are represented, and which are not.

Step 2c: Individual (everyone), (5:10-5:15)

Find your team’s NOTES repo, and your contribution to it (i.e. your h01 work). Read it over again, and perhaps also skim the section of the paper, to remind you about what you read, and what you wrote.

The link to the paper is here: https://pconrad.github.io/files/paper028.pdf

Next, you’ll each share with the group your responses to this question”

Question: Based on what you’ve learned from this paper, what skills would be helpful for students to learn in this class to be well prepared for industry

The timekeeper should give each member of the room exactly 3 minutes to share their responses to this question. You can reaffirm what others have said, but its even better if you can add something that wasn’t already mentioned.

The timekeeper should go last, and someone else should time them.
The scribe should ask someone else to scribe while they give their report.

When each person has finished:

Make a p09 Step 3 Done! post in your table’s ltd team channel (e.g. #ltd-4-1-table-01).
The scribe should also make a post on the #help-lecture-discussion channel to indicate that the group is finished, e.g. ltd-4-1-table-01 p09 Step 3 Done!

Stay at your table until the signal is given, and then everyone will move back to their original team tables.

Important: Scribe: Log out of Slack on the table computer before moving back!

Step 4: (Second Breakout Group; original teams, 5:35-5:55)

When the instructor signals, everyone gets up and returns to their original team tables, zoom rooms and slack channels. If you borrowed chairs from another table, please return them to their original tables.

Again, choose a scribe and timekeeper, and post the names of those folks to your team channel, along with the names of who is present/absent. (If everyone is present you can just say: “everyone present”; actively participating synchronously on zoom counts as being “present”).

Then, each member of the team should report on their portion of the paper, starting with section 4.1, then 4.2, etc.

Important: If your team has no-one that covered that section, or that member of your team is absent, please take a moment as a team to look over the posts on the channel for that section, and as a team, come up with a summary.

Again, give each team member at most 3 minutes (strictly).

The scribe should write a summary in the team’s slack channel capturing the discussion.

You may refer to the notes from the #ltd-4-1-table-01, #ltd-4-2-table-12 etc. channels on the slack channel on Slack, or just report from you own memory, as you see fit.

Step 5: (Still in Second Breakout Group, 5:55-6:10)

Now, in your same breakout room, locate your team’s Google Drive folder, and find a document in there called “Learning Goals - Team xxx” (for your team).

In that document, make a list (as a group) of (at least) six learning goals you have between now and the end of the course, i.e. things that you want to “be able to do” by the end of this course.

They may relate 1-1 to the six themes in the paper, or they may be different; the point is that they are things that are meaningful to the members of your group, knowing what you know from your own experiences, as well as what you’ve learned from this paper, and the discussion with your peers.

Example:

By the end of the course, we will be able to:
* Use GitHub to manage group work in a team (how)
* Understand how to get started with a new large code base (how big)
etc.

Ideally, you’d come up with at least one learning goal that corresponds to each of the six sections of the paper. It’s ok if you have more than six.

When you are done, make a post in the team’s slack channel and on #help-lecture-discussionwith p09 Step 5: Done!

Step 6: Finishing up (6:10-6:15)

When that’s done, you are almost finished with today’s lecture activity; last steps are for the scribe:

Scribe: be sure that your team’s channel contains (1) a post with the scribe / timekeeper and attendance for today’s activity (2) summary of what your team members reported back (3) learning goals for your team. (4) the p09 Step 5: Done! post

Once that’s done, grab the URL of the Learning Goals document and post that to Canvas at the link: P09 on Canvas.

Step 7: What then?

Then you are done with today’s class… but before you leave:

Check the #all-ucsb-cs156-f26 channel and your team channel on Slack for any announcements.
Check your team channel on Slack, as well as looking for any DMs from the instructional staff, or your teammates.

Grading Rubric:

For full credit, each group should:

Submit a link to a learning goals document
Learning Goals document should have at least six relevant learning goals.
The team slack channel should have the items indicated in the instructions above.

In addition, each individual should have participated in the activity, both in the ltd- part, and the team part; individuals that did not participate synchronsly on the date of the activity cannot make it up later.

Instructor Reminders

Be sure there are zoom breakout rooms that correspond to table numbers
Be sure that when you open zoom breakout rooms, that you click “allow participants to choose own room” before opening them.

Be sure to create these channels on Slack before class:

ltd-4-1-table-01
ltd-4-1-table-11
ltd-4-2-table-02
ltd-4-2-table-12
ltd-4-3-table-03
ltd-4-3-table-13
ltd-4-4-table-04
ltd-4-4-table-14
ltd-4-5-table-05
ltd-4-5-table-15
ltd-4-6-table-06
ltd-4-6-table-16

Check that students have finished the prior homework and remind them if they haven’t (so that most of them have)
Make a document called “Learning Goals - {team}” and place in each of the team Google Drive folders.