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# 2022/2023 MDF Program Plans

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## the basics

* we will have a quick meet up in **May**
* we will have a series of formal training workshops in **August** (which you will be paid for)
* over the **Fall and Spring** terms, there will be a mandatory meeting of all MDFs every other Friday
    * in the early part of the Fall, we will encounter many of the "LL Basics"
    * we'll also do a quick show and tell
* over the **Fall and Spring** there will be weekly "Lab" meetings related to some of the major media, tools and projects we work on. These will be determined collectively, based on the projects we need to support, but you can get a sense of the entire array of labs we've had over the years by checking out the slack channels for the labs that are still active asynchronously:
    * [music-lab](https://bokcenter.slack.com/archives/C3SKHT00Y)
    * visual-essay-lab
    * cine-lab
    * [code-lab]
    * [visual-essay-lab]
    * [graphical-abstract-lab]


## timeline



## questions and ideas

* labs: what are they? and which ones?
    * music? sound/audio
    * reality & creative code
    * cine / visual essay / AV / multimodal essay
    * maps / datavis / code?
    * illustration and graphic design, infographics, comics, simple animations
    * theatre / performance / events / presentation
    * games
    * TDM Lab
* project groups: what are they?
* what "units of work" or "deliverables" are we going to name, prioritize and count?
    * prototypes
    * projects
    * microprojects
    * resources
    * tests (on LLUFs)
    * workshops
    * office hours
    * labs
        * sync groups
        * slack channels
    * project groups
    * "show and tells"
    * "show your work"
    * tools
    * media
    * forms
    * 
* August Training
    * Week of August 22-26?
    * Lots of optional stuff but a couple of required things
    * Guest Stars:
        *  Jamie Spear from Digital Accessibility Services
        *  Jeremy
        *  Belle Lipton?


* as leader of _____Lab, we like you to spend 30 minutes a week aggregating some links and sending them to the _____-lab slack channel, look for things like
    * your medium/tool in the news or pop-culture
    * your medium/tool in higher ed
    * new linkedIn Learning and YouTube tutorials on your medium
    * professional work in your medium that's cool and inspiring
    * academic work in your medium

### Bok News Stories about MDFs (to share during meetings):
* [Xiaomeng's graphical abstracts](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/news/graphical-abstracts-teach-neuroscience)
* [Ignacio's podcasting workshops](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/news/flexibility-form-podcasting-spanish-50)
* [Grace's Science Podcasts](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/news/science-through-story-podcasts-oeb50)
* [Clarisse's Game Design](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/news/lessons-game-design-how-should-students-play-your-syllabus)
* [Phil's Virtual Labs](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/news/lab-3d-success-virtual-labs-oeb-126)
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## DATES!
Optional meet-up in May - Thursday, May 19 at 4 pm

THEN - STARTING AUG. 15 - orientation activities over two weeks; some mandatory, some optional 
BOTH FRIDAYS food and end of week happy hour both weeks that is also a show and tell that reveals what we're up to/the work we've done - great way to learn about LL

Mandatory dates: Tues. and Thurs. are mandatory; populated on MWF with optional workshops that give you a taste in different things we do

You can log hours for everything you attend but you don't have to attend all of them and there's no limit on what you can attend and get paid for

MANDATORY ORIENTATIONS
Tuesday, Aug. 16, Thursday Aug. 18
Tuesday, Aug. 23, Thursday Aug. 25
coffee at 9, get started at 9:30, work through 1 pm with lunch included
additional things in the afternoons and throughout the week that are optional
social event on Fridays at 4 with "typical LL show and tell" of things we've made and done that week
YOU'LL BE PAID FOR EVERYTHING! INCLUDING HAPPY HOUR!

Weeks of Aug 15 - 19 and 22-26
* mix of mandatory and optional meetings
    * launch early in week; mid-week check in; end of week show and tell
 * mandatory training in:
    * project docs/hackMD
    * Slack (responsibilities and conventions)
    * Airtable
    * Lab structure and requirements
    * video editing
    * multimodal communications
    * cameras
    * comp/rhet theory
    * instructional design
    * paper, pens, tables
    * iteration, prototyping, agile, etc.
    * microphones

* tastes of more advanced labs:
    * code
    * after effects
    * visual essays
    * atem
    * truss
    * recording
    * session w/ accessibility/ATG

