In Class Experiences

in Parts of Class

What: interactive activities in class.
Why: to give a chance to try out the ideas, and make them more concrete.
When: during synchronous class periods
How: participate in class, and turn in what is asked for
Assessment: We will grade things acceptable/unacceptable/not done. If you make a reasonable attempt you will get a full score. We may try to acknowledge exceptional work. ICEs are part of your class participation. Late Policy: Missing an ICE is not doing it. We may give you the opportunity to try it yourself, but you won’t get the full experience. Drop Policy: We will ignore the lowest two scores (so if you miss two or fewer, we will not notice).

As mentioned under Lectures (Class Meetings), a big part of this class is the interactions during the synchronous class meeting. One of these things will be small exercises where we ask you to design, critique, evaluation, write, … - often collaboratively with your classmates.

Usually, we will collect these to check that you’ve done them. We may not be able to provide feedback (that’s what the interaction will often be about). We also won’t do much assessment, since what makes for a good design is quite subjective.

But, if you miss class, you miss what happened. Talk to a classmate to find out what we talked about. In some cases, we can make the class materials available to you after class, and we might give you partial credit for doing what you can.

But you cannot do an in-class experience without actually being there, and doing/having the experiences is what makes this course. We will drop the lowest 2 scores.

Participation in these activities is important.

Many activities will require you to draw. See Requirements (Things you Need for Class). You can either draw on paper and scan, or draw on a tablet. Do not try to draw with a mouse or touchpad.

We will usually collect some product. Please follow instructions we will give you. We might create a Canvas assignment to upload to, have you put things into a Google Drive document, or some other mechanism.

We generally will not assess the submitted assignments, beyond checking that the student made a reasonable attempt (empty/unacceptable/acceptable). Grading these things is subjective, and we don’t want to force people to have art skills.