Social discussion of CS in K-12

[George Reese <reese AT illinois.edu>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Lash 
[mailto:lashtodd AT champaignschools.org]
 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 3:58 PM
To: George Reese; 
csPiggers AT lists.mste.illinois.edu
Subject: RE: [csPiggers] follow-up on Wednesday's session at Quality
(longish)

George,

Thanks so much for taking the time to put all this together. Also, kudus for
using the way underutilized "fortnightly" in your write-up ;) Thanks, Todd

Todd Lash
Librarian
Kenwood Elementary School
1001 Stratford Dr.
Champaign, IL 61821
217.351.3815
kenwoodlibrary.wordpress.com

"Todo tu tiempo es libre."  Unknown

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Subject: [csPiggers] follow-up on Wednesday's session at Quality (longish)

On Wednesday, a group of us made it to the Quality Bar for a beer and
discussion.
Apologies to Joe Muskin, who showed up a bit after 7:45 at the Blind Pig.
There was some confusion about venue. Here are some of the decisions the
group mad according to my almost-legible notes.

1. I suggested meeting at Kenwood for lunch, but Jessica and Todd quite
appropriately noted that they would not be able to focus on a meeting while
the responsibilities of students were so close at hand. Of course, that's
correct.

2. We did, however, agree that we should have a more business-oriented
session as well as the social meetings. I have constructed a doodle poll
asking about one-hour blocks at 4 and 5 PM on each of the weekends. Please
fill out which are the least bad (as opposed to impossible) days for these
fortnightly gatherings. There should be both an agenda and minutes taken at
these meetings.
http://doodle.com/9396nby3kit32tz4
Please fill out the poll as though it were asking about regular weekly
meetings, not a meeting next week as the dates indicate.

3. The social sessions, which we all agree are both fun and important, will
continue this semester at 6 PM on Thursdays. Jessica and Todd are going to
decide on the different locations and inform the group.  We also discussed
social meetings for breakfast or dinner on a weekend. Not everyone is up for
those, but we agree that it's important to have some of the social occasions
in different circumstances from bars. Discussions will continue.

4. We all agree that the meetings should be open.
You can view a minimally obfuscated list of email addresses of subscribers
to CSpiggers here:
https://lists.mste.illinois.edu/roster/cspiggers
Please let me know who else to add or invite to the list.
We don't want to leave out anyone who might be interested, even if all they
would want is the notes from the fortnightly business meetings.

George

George Reese
Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE)
505 East Green St.
Suite 102
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-6604




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