Seminars

Reflection seminars, prosamm14

There are eight mandatory reflection seminars in the course. See the detailed schedule for the entire list. The instructions for each seminar will be placed in the sub-menu to "Seminars" one week before the deadline for posting the reflection document. In the reflection seminars you will meet in groups of about a dozen students and a computer science teacher (mentor). Half of the students are studying their first year of the Master's program and half of the students are studying their second year.

Before each seminar, you need to do the following:

• Read the instructions for the seminar.
• Read the material that you are asked to read about the topic for the seminar. There may also be some videos to view.
• Write a reflection document, answering and reflecting on the questions of the seminar. The document should be about 700 words. You may also be asked to fill in a questionnaire or similar things.
• Put the document on your Google Drive and make it readable och commentable by others.
• Put the URL to the Google document in a text file in your group's seminar directory.
• Read the reflection documents of the other group members and write at least one comment in each document.

After these preparations you should go to the seminar and actively discuss the topic. 

Scoring

One of the intended learning outcomes of the course is that you should plan and carry out assignments within stipulated time. Therefore it is very important that you submit the reflection documents and comment on the other documents on time. 

At each reflection seminar you can accumulate points as follows:
1 point for timely and correctly submitted reflection document,
2 points for commenting the other reflection documents
1 point for a well done reflection document (which is submitted on time) 
1 point for active participation in the seminar, 

-2 points if the written reflection is not submitted within one week after the seminar (but it must be submitted sooner or later),
-2 points if you have not participated in the seminar and have not submitted a written reflection on others' reflections (at least two pages) within one week after the seminar (those not participating must submit it sooner or later).
At most, one can get 5 points and a minimum of -4 points.
On examination the side (to the left) describes the reporting area of the seminar data results should be interpreted.
What if you can not come to the seminar?

If you know in advance that you absolutely can not do with the scheduled time, you should timely contact the course instructor who then try to find a time with a different group. If you can not, you must submit a two-page reflection on others' reflections instead. If you mail it to your Mentor within one week of the seminar, you get no points deduction. Otherwise, you get a score of -2.
You should still file your written reflection in time to get the points associated with it.
What happens if you do not submit your written reflection on time?

The course is based on everyone submitting their reflection texts in time. If you do not, then you have the option to file it up to a week after the seminar. If you leave it even later to get a score of -2. Sooner or later, you must submit it to be finished with the course.
How about if you study abroad?

If you are on exchange studies, perform reflection seminars remotely. Then you get the chance to share your experiences of the exchange studies to the rest of the group.
Pay attention to when it's time for submissions of written reflections of the course (a few weeks in each period). Prior to submission, read the instructions on the web, read, reflect and write, but rather to reflect on the courses at KTH as you reflect over the exchange studies and judgment courses you read abroad. You should write a little more than usual (750-900 words), but on the other hand, you do not attend the reflection seminar. You will of course still read what the other team members wrote in their reflections. The mentor enter the result on submission of both the column for the written reflection and column for seminar participation.