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UTF Email Archive
All UTF class-related emails will be posted here for easy reference. They are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Thursday October 11; "Update Your Memberships" in the wikis
Hi all,
The next time you log into any of the Mission wikis, click Renew My
Membership on the top right corner. We re-did the permissions to
clean up a little. If you find you can't log in and clicking that
button doesn't help, let me know.
Mariela
Wednesday, October 10; Showing up to class, Friday's Meeting Times
Hi all,
I heard from a few UTFs that lots of you did not show up to class on Wednesday. We would like to think that this is because you couldn't find your room, so I am sending you Friday's class locations again at the end of this email.
It is extremely important that you show up for class. This is not like TEAL, where you will lose a certain number of points if you are not there, but we do consider participation to be extremely important. Also, this is not a class where you can read the textbook on your own and do just as well as someone who is there every day. Discussing your research with your team and coming up with new ideas and theories is EXTREMELY important. For that, you have to be IN class.
If you think your team would do better using the class time for something different, talk to your UTF. You might be able to work something out. This is YOUR class. You decide what to do with your time. What you do, however, determines how much you get out of it and how good your proposed solution is.
You should now be moving on to thinking globally about your problem and coming up with preliminary proposals. You have deadlines coming up (check the website, under Web Design). Your final presentation is two months away. That's about 8 weeks. Not that much time.
These are the classrooms for Friday:
Friday, October 12
56-162 - Team 1
56-167 - Team 2
56-180 - Team 3
56-191 - Team 4
66-154 - Team 5
66-156 - Team 6
66-160 - Team 7
66-168 - Team 89
16-168 - Team 10
Wednesday, October 10; Fwd: Presentation Questions
----- Forwarded message from lisa_s@MIT.EDU -----
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:51:58 -0400
From: Lisa Song <lisa_s@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Lisa Song <lisa_s@MIT.EDU>
Subject: presentation Q's
To: Kathryn Pesce <kpesce@mit.edu>, Levon Thomas <levont@mit.edu>, Kristin
Uhmeyer <uhmeyer@mit.edu>
Hi everyone,
I wrote down these questions/comments during team A's presentation last
week. Just thought I'd share them...I'll be asking my team these tomorrow.
1. Learn more about the economic impacts of your plan. Compare your plan to
existing plans. Can your plan enhance preservation and still have the same
economic impact on fishermen as current quotas/government regulations do?
Can your plan improve preservation and improve the fishermen's current
economic status at the same time?
2. Do you think fishermen will want to act as regulation-control for their
fellow fishermen? (A question you could ask the Gloucester fishermen next
weekend on the field trip)
3. What is your system to monitor the effectiveness of your closed areas?
Will there be a mechanism in place to adapt your plans as you monitor the
fish stocks?
Enjoy the rest of your super-long weekend!
--Lisa
----- End forwarded message -----
Wednesday, October 10 (From Professor Bowring)
Greetings,
I hope you enjoyed your long weekend and that your group meetings today were
fruitful. Some of you managed to hear Daniel Pauly's talk on Tuesday and it
was quite good and very relevant. I have attached two papers by him, one
describes "The Sea around us Project" and the other is a paper on the dangers
of overfishing deep water species. I strongly encourage you to read both of
these, if you have not already done so.
As we move into October each group should now start thinking more about the
problem of fishery collapse on a more global scale. As dire as the situation
is in the Northeast, the situation for much of the rest of the planet is even
worse. Pauly's paper is sobering to say the least. Our planet needs you to
come up with some solutions and very quickly. I have every confidence that the
solutions you propose will be better than current policies. If we are to lose
vast marine ecosystems due to lack of action the consequences for us as a
species could indeed be very serious.
Your presentations on the Mini project were every good and showed your abilities
to synthesize and integrate. However I am sure you have come to appreciate how
much more difficult it will be to scale up to the whole planet.
On Wednesday and Friday the 17th and 19th I would like each group to address
the class with a brief description of their progress to date--their ideas for
interactions with other groups and a beginning sense of where each group is
headed. On Wednesday groups 1-4, and on Friday 5-10 will present to the
class. On Monday the 22nd we will have a whole class discussion about the
problem, the status of the project, and where you would like to go from here.
So you have this Friday the 12th and Monday the 15th to organize your work.
Sam
Wednesday October 10, Mission today 36-144
Hi Team 5,
Welcome back from your long weekend. Great job last week, guys. Please be on
time for our group-only meeting today in 36-144, which is the same building as
your middle-size team meeting last week.
If you have an unavoidable conflict with Mission on a particular day, please
send me an email or let me know some other way and tell me that you're not
expecting to be in class for the day. We're not keeping attendance like they
might in TEAL or a HASS class or something, but it's just courteous and helps
me be aware of what will be going on, and your participation level in general
does have weight on your grade. Also, if there's a problem that's preventing
you from getting to class, I can help try to work it out with you. However,
your team will function best with full participation, especially as we meet
solely as a team for the next stretch to develop your team plans and wiki.
Topics of discussion for today: last week's presentation, use of the wiki/email
and group work strategy, and where to move forward as a team.
Friday we will be in 66-154. No more big group meetings at least for the rest of
the week.
-Kristin
Friday, October 5; Subject: 34-101 today
Meet today in 34-101 at 3 for the final group presentation.
-Kristin