Pareto Project Updates
This is the original guide we used to set up your Pareto Projects:
Click here to read the updated Google Doc.
When I built that guide, the goal was to split your projects into two rounds, which you can see in the original calendar. We also set “deliverable” deadlines, focusing on what you could create and present, in writing or in person, by certain dates.
A couple of months later, I’d like to shift the calendar for these projects. Here is the updated version, which you’ve seen in class and online already:
Course Calendar
Remember that our shift to a GAP score every three weeks shifted our specific lessons and assignments a little bit, and that also applies to your Pareto Projects. We will now take one Friday every three weeks to check in on your progress. On those days, you will be in the iLC, where you will be able to spread out and use those resources as you see fit.
Remember, too, that you have spent a considerable amount of time in this course working on organization. When we meet in the iLC on those designated Fridays, you are responsible for setting the agenda and being productive. You must bring your own device, for instance, since we will no longer have a class set of Chromebooks. You must plan in advance for anything else you’ll need.
To help get you in that frame of mind, we have reserved the iLC for every Friday in March. We need to explore that space and see what it offers us in terms of collaborative and innovative learning. That means that you should plan to bring everything you need directly to the iLC, not Room 210, on the following dates:
- March 3 | Pareto Project Checkpoint
- March 10 | GAP 3B Due
- March 17
- March 24 | Pareto Project Checkpoint
- March 31 | GAP 3C Due
You will be able to choose to focus on anything course-related while we are in the iLC, but there are assignments and checkpoints associated with certain Fridays. It’s like everything else in here: There is tremendous freedom and a precise structure. You need both.
Pareto Project Deadlines
Your new deadline for these projects is June 2. On that date, you will finish your projects and begin talking to us about what’s next. You might present to your peers, publish an essay, launch a YouTube channel — we will figure out what fits your work at that time.
For the first Friday after our shift — March 3 — you need to assess the state of your project. Answer the following questions:
- To what extent have your project goals changed over the last two months?
- What have you accomplished?
- What have you learned?
- Finally, what’s your next step, and how are you using the iLC on Friday, March 3, to accomplish that next step?
#4 can be something you write now, on Thursday, in preparation for the iLC, or something you write over the weekend, looking back at your work on Friday. Write your answers in a Google Doc and attach it to the Google Classroom assignment that probably led you to this post.
Ask questions about this work or the Pareto Project overall in the comments below.