Plans and Scheduling

[elz]

Okay, so, picking a schedule!

There are 24 lecture videos for the class, so what I'd like to aim to do is start with lecture #1 next week (11/2), do two a week on Mondays and Wednesdays, take a break around Christmas and New Year's and finish up the first week in February.

I'm thinking that if there are enough people who have different scheduling needs, we could try to split it up something like this:

a) Twice a week, start in November - finish early February
b) Once a week, start in November - finish end of April
c) Twice a week, start in January - finish March/April

Then also if you had to jump in and out at any point, you could pick back up with whichever pace fit best.

The tricky part about learning on your own, at least for me, is the lack of dates to have to stick to and the lack of anything prodding me to put down the novel, turn off the CSI rerun, etc. and do some serious reading or lecture-watching. So you want enough flexibility that you don't get overwhelmed, but not so much that you get... underwhelmed.

Thoughts?

Comments

[rodo]

I'd like to try twice a week, starting November. No idea if I'll manage to keep to the schedule, but I really think it's worth a try.

Are there any posts planned for the dates where the participants can ask questions/bitch/post their results, etc.? Because it would probably help me a lot if I could interact with others during the time. I have no problem doing things on schedule, as long as it involves others.

[elz]

Oh, absolutely! I was thinking one post per lecture + reading assignment + problem set (we could separate those out, but I'd worry about spamming people). Hopefully that way we can collectively bust through any thorny problems we might run into, too.

[badgerbag]

I'm figuring that hanging out on IRC might motivate us and give us a backchannel! come make fun of the prof's bad jokes with me!