Instructor Orientation Recap
The Powerpoint presentation we used for the Orientation can be found here.
Important Action Items
1. Instructor Bios (due May 25th)
2. Session Sign-Up (by June 1st)
3. Curriculum Commitee Sign-Ups (by June 1st)
4. CalSO Sign-Ups: (by June 1st)
5. Section Bios (by June 4th)
1. Instructor Bios (due May 25th, [This Sunday!])
Email yours, along with a 120x120 photo of yourself, to davidliang@gmail.com, carnive@gmail.com, schlooooo@gmail.com
The Bios are going to be used to both introduce yourself to other instructors and entice the young'uns to sign up for your section over some other section. The fields that we're going to have are:
Name: (John Smith / John Doe / Trogdor)
Year: (Freshman / Sophomore / Junior / Senior / Super-Senior)
Major: (Just to be safe, let's just spell the whole thing out: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Materials Science and Engineering)
Involved in: (Cal Ballroom Dancing, ISPE, Not Golden Key unless you actually go to their meetings)
About me: (This is your main happy talking place. Go nuts)
Contact me about: (Any number of things: Finding research with a professor / Doubling in L&S / Where to go on a first date)
Simple, right? Here's an example from last year:
Michelle Danger Lew
Major: IEOR and Econ
Year: Junior
Involved in: SWE, TBP, APM, IIE, UC Martial Arts Program, Cal Gymnastics Club
About me: I love Disneyland more than Brian Loo does! Just kidding. No one does. But really, about moi: I'm probably narcoleptic. The effect seems to be amplified in class and on public transportation, but I've developed an excellent sixth sense regarding exactly when to wake up to get off at the correct stop (although a couple of times, I haven't been sure if I've gone around a full loop on the perimeter bus, or if I just got on). I love movies indiscriminately. If I were a Power Ranger, I'd be the original yellow one, cause we all know she's the only one who could actually fight. Except maybe the white ranger. And the pink ranger at least could do gymnastics. My favorite things in the world are San Francisco, Girl Scout cookies, airports, Mango-a-Go-Go, gymnastics, taekwondo, making playlists, Modge Podge, and Firefly... and for now, the only guilty pleasure I will admit to is High School Musical.
Contact me about: Doubling in L&S, getting jobs and internships, stuff to do in San Francisco
2. Session Sign-Up (by June 1st)
Bios will be up on this website by the 26th. At the same time, we'll be sharing with you a Google spreadsheet. Get to know each other, pick who you want to teach with, and then sign up for a section, just like you did with interviews.
3. Curriculum Commitee Sign-Ups (by June 1st)
If you're interested in helping out with the curriculum, shoot us an e-mail. David, Michelle, Mike, and anyone who's interested will take the first crack at it this week, and then put everything up on a wiki to get everything all finalized.
4. CalSO Sign-Ups: (by June 1st)
This one is important! The McLaughlin engineering advisors meet with freshmen during CalSO, and they would love it if they had an actual engineers present to help them decide which classes to take. This is by far our best way to get froshies to sign up for E98: by being useful from the get-go. If any of you are around for any of these dates and times, please let us know. Because there are six engineering advisors, we need at least 6 instructors to help out per session.
Calso Dates:
June 9th (1-3pm)
June 16th (1-3pm)
June 20th (1-3pm)
After you've signed up for a section, give your own section a blurb. It doesn't have to be very long, just something that you gives the combined three of you your own section identity.
Again, e-mail these to us at davidliang@gmail.com, carnive@gmail.com, schlooooo@gmail.com .
An example of Mike's design:
The Section 14 Buccaneers: David, Michelle, and Mike were once fearsome pirates before they decided to go to Berkeley. As captains of their respective vessels, they knew a thing or two about working in organizations, and decided to join engineering clubs. After taming seven separate societies, they're ready to introduce a younger generation to the Yo Ho Hos of student life. Also, they know how to party hearty.