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 +=====TO DO LIST=====
  
 +**NEXT WEEK GOALS:**
 +  - Get a [[astro300_f10:courseoutline|skeleton of the entire course]]: Fill out list of topics.
 +  - Finish more detailed outline of bootcamp.
 +
 +**AUGUST GOALS:**
 +  - Get first three meetings ready
 +
 +Important dates for C10
 +---------
 +  - Thursday, Aug 26 : First day of sections
 +  - Friday, Aug 27 : First day of lecture
 +  - Wee of Sep 20  : First quiz
 +  - Monday, Oct 11 : First midterm
 +
 +Unassigned
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 + 
 +
 +Aaron
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 +  - <del>Campus GSI workshop dates</del> **Friday before classes start...**
 +  - <del>E-mail Alex about course info, syllabus</del> **...Got it...**
 +  - <del> Draft some more ideas for the pedagogy seminar </del> **...see below...**
 +  - <del>Ask Alex about funds for Evans</del> **...His wallet is ours...**
 +  - Draft interest gauging E-mail for seminar
 +  - Check Evans for what needs to be replaced
 +  - Put up day 2 lesson plan. 
 +  - Edit day 1 lesson plan.
 +
 +Josh
 +---------
 +  - What room is available for Ay300? <del>What times are available</del>? 
 +  - <del>What could conflict with the bootcamp? Bloom's Boot camp?</del> **Bloom BC is on the weekend.. Email sent to first-years, UGSIs may still have conflicts...**
 +  - <del>Talk to Dexter about funds</del> **We have $200 for the class supplies, and appt/bonuses may increase.**
 +  - <del>Figure out Boot Camp dates (consider campus-wide GSI training, JBloom's Python boot camp?)</del>
 +  - <del>Schedule (tentatively) class time, day, and room based on times of astro classes and any popular physics classes (see [[http://schedule.berkeley.edu|Berkeley Schedule]])</del> **Looks like Mondays 4-6pm as in past years.**
 +  - Get personal whiteboards/whiteboard paper for our class and Evans (x6-24?)
 +  - Edit day 2 lesson plan.
 +
 +Seminar Ideas
 +----------
 +  - Textbooks (Possible speakers: Filippenko, Stahler, de Pater)
 +  - Using original sources in the classroom (Possible speaker: Chiang)
 +  - The (graduate level) interactive classroom: Using group discussion and other active learning techniques with graduate courses
 +  - Teaching large classes
 +  - Teaching what you don't know: What do you do when you're asked to teach a subject that is not your area of expertise? 
 +  - The role of faculty as advisers: project, dissertation and thesis guidance (developing autonomy, adaptability, control, self-efficacy)
 +  - Learning styles and preferences. What works and what doesn't work in each instance?
 +  - Balancing a research career with teaching (i.e., teaching and not perishing).

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