Planting Design Seminar Instructions for Working Groups

Dear seminar participants, in the following you will find the basic information for getting you started with the 'real'process of this seminar. I hope you will enjoy your group work and learn a lot from each other in addition to the lectures of this seminar. Best wishes, Ellen

Register on the Seminar Wiki

• The first step is to get registered on this wiki. Only registered users are able to edit pages and to create new texts and content elements. Please click on 'create account'.
• Important: you can only register on the wiki before 12th of November 2013. We will stop this function again because otherwise our wiki will receive Spam registrations.

Getting familiar with the wiki

This wiki uses the same software as Wikipedia, so maybe you are already familiar with this. Please check the help page for a first introduction. The best way is learning by doing.

Where is my working group?

• For privacy protection reasons we do not publish the working group members with full details on this wiki.
• The PDF file with the working groups has been send to you by e-mail. Please contact the seminar coordinator in case you have not received this information.
• Please check this file and find your working group and your group members. You will be working with this group until the end of this seminar.

Roles in the working group

The working group list proposes a distribution of roles. This basiscally aims to help you in the collaborative process. However, the roles are not fixed and you may agree within your group on changing them in case there are good reasons for this.

The roles are as follows:

• • Coordinator: The coordinator organises the group communication and arranges additional meetings (i.e. Skype or similar) during which group discussions can take place. He/she also needs to have the deadlines in mind and remind the other group members about these.
  • Manage Assignment 2: this person needs to take care that the concept map of the lecture is made. He/she may propose a draft to which to others can comment. Each group will prepare only one lecture concept map. You find the date of 'your' lecture in the group list.
  • Propose site for assignment 4: the last group assignment is to work on a collaborative planting desing proposal. This person is supposed to propose a potential site to the group. This site my related to the cases presented in assignment 3.