Setting up Slack for the term
We will use Slack for asynchronous communication outside class. In particular, you can expect to use Slack for:
- reading late-breaking announcements, corrections, suggestions, etc. that I will post periodically in the #announcements channel
- posting your reading reactions
- posting questions in the #questions channel (and responding to your classmates' questions, if you wish)
- contacting me via direct message (I'm usually quicker to respond to Slack DM than to email)
- coordinating with partners on those occasions when you have partner assignments
Do these setup tasks
- I sent you an email invitation to Slack before the term started. Follow the instructions in that email to accept the invitation.
- If you didn't receive the invitation, let me know via email right away!
- Either install the Slack app on your work computer and/or your mobile device or bookmark our Slack workspace in your browsers if you prefer using the web interface. Make a plan ensuring that you'll check Slack once per day.
- Edit your Slack Profile:
- Change your displayed name to your full preferred name (for example, I changed mine from "jondich" to "Jeff Ondich")
- If you're comfortable doing so, upload a profile picture of yourself so your classmates and I can recognize you.
- If it's common for people to mispronounce your name, I would be grateful if you would provide a name recording and/or pronunciation hints.
- Post a short introduction to yourself in the #general channel. Here's what I would like
you to include.
- Name and, if you wish, preferred pronouns
- What's one non-tech-related thing you like to do for fun?
- Who's a musician or writer or artist that makes your life better?
- Anything else you want to say.
- Please do not talk about computer stuff in this post. There will be plenty of opportunity for that later.
That's it
Happy communicating!