This document contains checklists for the people involved in instructor discussion sessions. The full procedure is described on this page.
Discussion sessions are organized and conducted through this etherpad:
http://pad.carpentries.org/community-discussions
- Sign on as close to the start time as you can.
- Confirm that your fellow host is present (if there is one) and who will be leading/taking notes
- (Optional) If a group is very large and you have a co-host, you can split the group in two, using the Breakout Rooms feature in Zoom.
- Copy the agenda from the bottom of the etherpad to the space under your time slot
- Lead the discussion
- We recommend following the main points of the agenda, but feel free to let discussion go where people want. Not all the questions need to be answered by everyone.
- Don't feel like you have to answer all the questions as the host - draw on the other discussion participants to answer each other's questions.
- If someone is attending as part of their training checkout, prompt them to ask a question.
- Try to leave enough time at the end for the final agenda item.
- Take notes
- Archive the etherpad by clicking on the star in the top right corner.
- Fill out the host questionnaire
- Note: Please copy the list of attendees (including all attendees but removing no-shows) and paste it into question 7 of the questionnaire.
- This questionnaire will automatically send an email to the mentoring co-chairs and to [email protected].
- Clear the information from your session (date/time, attendees, notes) from the etherpad.
- (Optional) write a blog post about interesting points that came up in discussion; see this template as a starting point.