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TEAM ACTIVITY 2: Innovate as a Team

Welcome back! We hope today is a productive day getting to know your team and coding.

Day 2 summary:

Please complete the warm-up with your team, briefly review today’s objectives, and carefully read the Day 2 and Day 3 report out items to guide your efforts.

Objectives for Day 2

  1. Work together to decide on the data sets you will use. Reminder: Use a decision-making technique discussed during Day 1. Kaner’s Gradient of Agreement is below for reference.
  2. Practice joining your datasets together.
  3. Discuss and try creating interesting graphics.
  4. Report back on your results at the end of the day. Today’s report back is short and focused on your team process. The Day 3 report back is more detailed.

Morning Warm-up

Please share the following informaton with your team. (No need to write down your responses this time) - Name - Pronouns - Reflecting on Day 1, what is something that surprised you?

Decision-Making

Use the gradient of agreement (Kaner 20214) to make decisions as a team.

Gradients of agreement

Day 2 Report Back

Day 2 report-back questions are about the team process. We are interested in your team’s unique experience. Below are some prompts you might consider. You don't need to address all of them - choose which ones you want to present. Please limit your reflection to 2-3 mins.

  1. What worked well for your team?
  2. Respectful listening across members, laying out groundwork for long term goals first, which then directed our work for the day. Took into consideration what everyone in the group expected/ needed/ wanted from this work.

  3. What’s one thing you would change?

  4. Did your group ever have an “ah-ha” moment? What led up to that moment?

  5. Converging on our question yesterday was an "ah ha" moment. We also got a lot of traction when we started thinking about what our long-term goal(s) should be and identifying RFPs and funding helped us set up short-term goals.
  6. Did your group experience the groan zone? What is one tip you want to share with future groups at the Summit about getting through the groan zone?
  7. No groan zone, made constructive progress throughout! It helped that we kept finding things to do and work on. Getting into the data and getting our hands dirty was helpful. Everyone was able to share their expertise.

Looking Ahead: Day 3 Report Back

These are the prompts for the final Report Back tomorrow (Day 3) - start thinking about these questions as you work today. Each group will share their Day 3 GitHub page on the screen and give a 4 minute presentation.

  • Project Title:
  • Research Question:
  • One interesting graphic/finding:
  • What are you thinking about doing next with your team? Long-term, short-term?
  • What’s missing: what resources, people, data sets, etc. does your team need?

Reminder

There is the opportunity for groups to continue working on their projects as an ESIIL Working Group. If you love your team and want to continue working together, considering submitting a Working Group Application this fall. See the ESIIL website for more information: https://esiil.org/working-groups.

Last update: 2024-05-20