Weekly Workflow

There are three basic components to our seminar:

  1. This website
    • Main resource
    • Homework
  2. Live streams
    • Weekly presentations
  3. Group sessions
    • Interactive sessions in smaller groups

I. This Website

This website is going to be the main repository for information. I am planning for this to become a sort of blog-book-collection-of-articles-Frankenstein-monster. It will essentially replace most PDF materials you are familiar with from regular semesters, such as presentation slides. All homework will be published here, too. My aim is to make the experience as integrated as possible and tell the story of our class in a coherent way throughout the semesters.

II. Live streams

Every week at the scheduled seminar time—Mondays 16:00-18:00—, I will live-stream my main presentation on Discord. For the most part, this will be like our regular seminar, except that we are not all in the same room. Other than that, everyone can ask questions with or without microphone, and it will be as interactive as usual (or even more so).

For now, I am not planning to upload full recordings. I might upload edited pieces from time to time to Blackboard. However, I will integrate anything interesting that comes up during the live session into this website. So no one is going to miss out on interesting questions or spontaneous discussions that develop during a live session.

III. Group sessions

The main live sessions are going to be a bit shorter on average. This will give us time to have additional sessions in smaller groups. I have no definite plan for these yet other than having video calls in order to make everything a bit more personal. We will see how things are going after our first meeting.