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title: week 0 with returning MDFs
tags: [planning, cd]

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## goals
* design ILP
* design and practice "trailer" for ILP
    * like a teaser activity
    * gives sense of what the lab is going to be
* LL Basics for MDFs
    * activity performed in the studio
    * assignment/instructional design
    * these activities are more for thinking about the labs/those forms

## when - the required stuff
* Monday: launch (9am start)
    * what are the requirements for returning MDFs?
    * what are the MDF basics we should identify, practice and communicate?
    * what is the prompt for the week?
* Tuesday/Wednesday: work, but come in for an interview
* Thursday, August 17: run through and wrap party (9am-5pm)
    * 9: coffee
    * 10, 11, 1, 2, 3: 5 lab tasters
    * 4: happy hr and reflect

## what do we want them to do
* lab planning
    * working closely with LL staff to compile docs needed for initial learning projects
* help making LL menu of options for incoming MDFs?
    * get list of all the studio mechanics we could imagine wanting new mdfs to know about as they start to design things for their depts
* doing stuff in the studio/developing mechanics and workshop ideas
    * developing new mechanics for 2023/2024
    * jessi lead us through a few things if she's here?

## tentative schedule
* tuesday, august 15
    * define initial learning projects with LL staff
    * start to build things in the lab zones
* wednesday, august 16
    * some optional tool-based sessions if anyone is around/excited to learn things together?
* thursday, august 17
    * work on workshops/in the studio?

## returners
* take leadership role in labs
* they've been here and can reflect on their experiences
    * what they wish they knew
    * what they think new folks should know

## to say
* monday
    * launch
* tuesday
    * work with your partner
* wednesday
    * people could figure it out 
        * you'll want to hold time to work with your staff partner and figure out a schedule here that works for you both
* thursday
    * run-through
        * 45 minutes
        * skip through basics
        * one an hour for five hours
        * then party
    * wrap party
* optional reflection on friday or during happy hour

## week 0 catering logistics
* coffee and lunch for monday and thursday
* happy hour thursday

## draft msg

we are so excited to start another year with all of you! 

because you're so central to everything we do here, and because you're going to take on more of a leadership role in the labs, we wanted to launch the labs with you during the week of August 14!

The goals for this week are to:
* think together about the LL basics for MDFs (what are the things that MDFs need to know, think about, be able to do, etc.)
* launch each of the core labs for 2023/2024, designing an initial learning project with your LL staff lab co-leader and create some initial documentation that will help other folks learn
* design an activity that uses the LL studio to teach us in the form your lab is focused on

Here's what we're thinking as a schedule for that week:
* Monday, August 14 at 9 am
    * we all meet up in the LL studio to launch the week
    * and have coffee!
* Tuesday, August 15 and Wednesday, August 16
    * you and your LL staff co-leader will decide when to work together on your plans for the lab (both the initial learning project and the teaser activity that will help others know what that lab is "about")
* Thursday, August 17
    * at 9, we have coffee!
    * 10, 11, 1 pm, 2pm, 3pm
        * each lab pairining will run us through a 45-minute activitiy that helps us learn in the particular form your lab is organized around
