[Ltg] [Cltstaff] [Clt] [Cltphds] New LTG Seminar Roster

[Diego Molla]

There's no need to prepare for this. In the AnswerFinder meetings we 
basically follow this formula and nobody of us does any sort of 
preparation (not me, anyway). This way everybody knows what everybody 
else is doing and we can give feedback. Of course there are many more 
PhD students than AnswerFinder members, that's why there is a format to 
follow. But no preparation is required. If you want to spend 2 minutes 
during your 7-minute slot, fine, we go to lunch earlier or someone else 
can spend 12 minutes...

In the LTG format there's no time allocated for feedback but well, we 
are all able to contact each other after the meeting if we want to tell 
them something, aren't we?

Diego

Brett Powley wrote:
> On 26/04/2007, at 6:46 PM, jette viethen wrote:
>
>   
>> Oops, did I miss something?? ... about this monthly PhD student  
>> discussion.
>>     
>
> Yes, I got the feeling that I missed something too.  This does sound,  
> in principle, like a good idea.  But I'm not sure that preparing for  
> a presentation every month, whether I think I need the feedback or  
> not, is a good use of my limited time right now.  Some of the things  
> that spring to mind are:
>
> - short presentations do take time to prepare; I'm not sure I need  
> another couple of hours taken out of my week right now
>
> - even if it's not meant to be, this does sound like yet another  
> progress reporting obligation (as if, as Jette mentioned, we didn't  
> have enough already)
>
> - I am pretty sure that there is already the opportunity to present  
> things informally at LTG if we want or need feedback
>
> - I've been to a lot of mass "present your research briefly"  
> presentations and they are very difficult to keep on time even  
> *without* questions.  I can see that it might be difficult to get  
> useful feedback in a presentation of <a large number of PhD students>  
> x 7 minutes format
>
> - Presenting a few times a year and enlisting extra feedback when I  
> need it suits me at the moment; of all the things I need to help with  
> progress in my PhD, I can't say that doing extra presentations is one  
> that sprung to mind.  But maybe other PhD students think differently
>
>
> While I think that a more regular opportunity for soliciting feedback  
> is a good idea, I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it.
> What do others think?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brett
>
>
>
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