The final presentation for our class has been scheduled. It will be between 7:30 and 9 a.m. on April 21. We will be presenting to a group of area students, at least some of whom will be coming from Yates High School.

I have divided you into three teams to help facilitate our collaborative work on this presentation. The point of these teams is not to free you from having to think about what the other teams are doing, but instead to focus our efforts so as to ensure that we put together a good presentation in the short time we have.

On April 14, by the end of class, we will select the people we want to represent the whole group by speaking to the students on the 21st. I’ll say more about this in class.

For this to work, we need to keep communication between the teams open. Here are two ways to help with that: First, each team should select two representatives who are able to meet briefly with me either in my office hours (Fridays, 2 to 4 p.m.) on April 8 and April 15, or before class on April 7 and April 14 around 1:30 p.m. or 2 p.m. (Make sure your representatives are available at all of those times, and once I know who they are, I will coordinate with the six representatives to schedule two specific meetings.) These brief, touch-base meetings will allow information to be more easily shared between the teams. Second, all of the work that you do as a team should be recorded in Google Docs or slideshows that are shared with me, so that I can then share them with everyone in the class.

Below each team below, I have listed a series of deadlines for your team to meet.
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