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Discord

Community vs. Students

The Discord Student Community has access to:

  • Live lectures
  • Office hours
  • Learning lab

And the Students in the Mentorship Program additionally have access to:

  • Open DM communication with Instructors and Mentors
  • Individual assistance in Learning Lab
  • Projects guidance
  • High expectations: weekly deadlines
  • Routine opportunities to share feedback
  • Promised good experience

Mentors

Mentor Orientation (first week of Bit Camp)

  • You will meet the mentors during the Mentor Orientation
  • Introduce students to their mentors in group chats on Discord
  • Students meet with mentors once a week once project phase starts
    • They must submit reflections on meeting to instructors

Live Lectures (livestreaming)

Navigating StreamYard

Livestream

Scheduling 2021

With 5 Camps happening at the same time, every weekday will be dedicated to one Camp:

  • Monday 5-6pm PST - Intro to Serverless
  • Tuesday 4-5pm PST - Intro to JS
  • Wednesday 5-6pm PST - Intro to NoSQL
  • Thursday 6-7pm PST - Building Slack Apps
  • Friday NEED TO SCHEDULE - Intro to GameDev

Office Hours

Held on Discord voice channels (VC)

  • Recommended that instructor have their own VC when enough students join and when questions become more specific (e.g. for projects)
  • Required for students in Mentorship Program

Lightning Talks

Students in Mentorship Program get to present their projects!

Logistics:

  • Invite mentors to participate and either of Daniel or Shreya to MC event
  • Schedule date and time midway through Camp and inform Shreya (request Eventbrite page and marketing)
  • Create event in Notion's Master Events Tracker and tag all instructors and supervisors

Preparation:

  • Students need to submit recorded demo of project as soon as project is complete available
  • Intro slides:
    • What is Bit Project? What is Bit Camp? What was this Camp about?
    • One slide per instructor and mentor involved
    • Introduce all students participating with names of projects
  • Body slides - give each student their own slide deck to minimize editing errors
  • Concluding slides:
    • Upcoming events or announcements
    • Gratitudes to mentors and partners
  • Schedule 2 group practice rehearsals
    • 1 - everyone watching everyone else present + discuss feedback
    • 2 - one long rehearsal on StreamYard where students join one at a time, present, get final feedback, and can leave as the next person presents
  • Schedule technical rehearsal for mentors and practice their introductions for stream

Quality Assurance:

  • Review 1: @Emily Chen @Beau Hayes-Pollard
  • Review 2: @Daniel Kim @Shreya Gupta
  • Design Check: @Nadiah Mohammed

Presentation:

  • Make sure you have access to StreamYard before the day of the webinar
  • Start livestreaming at the dot and wait for 3-5 mins to let people join
  • Check public chat and respond at appropriate times (leave off-topic questions to end)
  • Communicate with other streaming people through private chat

Project Submissions

TBA in March

Student Experience

Instructors are responsible for ensuring that students in the Mentorship Program have the best experience possible. For this, we require each Camp's instructors to:

  • Collect progress reports and feedback on a weekly basis
  • Conduct one virtual video call 1:1 meeting mid-way through the Camp

The purpose of this is to ensure that the instructors are fully aware of any struggles that the students are facing so that they can tailor the experience accordingly.

Student Orientation

Meeting the Students

  • Scribble.io for 15-20 mins
  • Introductions when you get bored:
    • Name
    • Education Stuff
    • Two truths & a lie (game)
  • This is the time to socialize and get comfy

Introducing Yourselves

  • Depth is valuable for the students
    • Shows them that you’re more than just a person who wrote the curriculum + you care about their experience
    • Helps them open up to you later as well
  • Opportunity to make yourself stand out
  • Basic intros
    • Depth:
      • Background & interests?
      • What brought you into tech?
      • What has your experience with Bit Camp been like?
      • Why is your work important to you?

Introducing the Curriculum

  • Describe the structure of the Camp
  • Demo GitHub Learning Lab
  • Start the Learning Lab (make initial practice commit)
  • Set the expectations for this Camp
    • Communication is key!

Discord

  • Screenshare Discord
  • Explain how you’re going to use the different channels
  • Have the students send “hello” messages in the private channel dedicated to this group
  • They should feel confident sending messages to each other, not just the mentors/you