Consolidation Unit Pitch Market and Studio

Plan for the day:

1. Think for yourself
2. Think with others
3. Make a plan
   • Tasks and roles for the project overall
   • Goals for just today
4. Studio time

Think for yourself

Take just five minutes here; you’ll have more time to flesh it out over the rest of today’s class.

EXT: If you’ve already posted, head into the next section.

Think with others

Now that you’ve spent some time discovering your thoughts about this final unit for yourself, it’s time to share with others – and, possibly, to recruit or join up with some like-minded co-travelers.

We’ll spend a while looping around and back in the margins or aloud.

When we’re reaching a stable point, I’ll ask you to record your team memberships (including solo teams), also in the google doc.

Planning: tasks and roles

With your team (which may have one member, or more), get to planning. You’ll need to have…

1. A brief overview of your baseline project goals, which may be revised from an initial pitch (especially if you’re combining) or may be the initial pitch (if you’re happy with it)
2. A list of smaller tasks you’ll need to accomplish to achieve those goals
   • You can nest these as a bulleted list under your overview.
   • It’s also quite possible you’ll want a nested list. Look for the corners of the puzzle to complete so it doesn’t get overwhelming.
   • You may want to mark additional aspirational targets. What’s your minimum deliverable product, vs your stretch goals beyond that?
3. If you have a team of two or more, proposed roles for each of your team members
   • Last class I’d floated these possible roles: project manager, visual designer, experience designer, programmer, researcher, copy writer. Feel free to start there or adjust as needed.
   • You may also decide it would help to read through this excerpt from Writer/Designer, on ways to facilitate group collaboration.
4. A link to some space where you’ll develop the project: most likely an existing GitHub repository or a new one.

Studio time

If you’re ready to move on and time allows, I’ll get out of your way. :¬)

Choose a subset of your goals for today

As is our custom, please write down today’s goals for in-class time at the beginning of your work session, and expect to come back at the end with an update:

• Of the tasks you’ve listed, which can you achieve in class today?
• If none, how will you use class time to set yourself up for success moving forward? (See below for some possible reading you could do.)

I’ll float around, as usual.

Exit note

Five minutes before the end of class, please loop back to the google doc and make an updated plan: what do you want to have finished for Monday? By Wednesday, when we next have class?

Homework for next time

• Continue with whatever work you set out for yourself to consolidate, integrate, and ideally deepen your learning this semester.
• Post a preview – a beginning – to the repo you linked to in today’s class.
  • If you’re revising, this means you should push at least one new commit.
  • I’m going by project, not person, so teams should divide the labor appropriately… and hold each other to the agreements you’ve made.

EXT: If you haven’t yet done so, please do read Paul Ford on git logs and read back through your own commit history – part of the homework from last class.

EXT: Have you also considered reading back through your studio goals and reflections in the google doc? What about the lesson plans – perhaps especially all those advice blocks from studio days?