CP5046: Workshop Week 1

Ice breakers, discover potential teammates

Miro basics, Slack basics
Explore potential projects

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 The purpose of this workshop

• Meet your potential teammates – using various “ice breaker”

exercises

• Setup your collaboration tools (Miro, Slack) to get all ready to

embark on your Software development adventure

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 TODO: make sure your familiar with LearnJCU
ETA: some day during Week 1

https://www.jcu.edu.au/learn/guides

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 What is slack?

Slack is a messaging app we use If you haven’t already, please sign up at

for student-staff and student- http://itatjcu.slack.com using your JCU
student communication. email address

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 TODO: check out this quick overview about slack
from Slack’s YouTube channel
ETA: right now (~1min)

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 TODO: What is emotional intelligence?
ETA: right now (~5mins)

• Okay, so we need to do some “team building”

• Some say the key to positive teamwork and

team outcomes is emotional management, for
which “emotional intelligence” is often cited.

• Amongst other things, teams benefit from

understanding how to regulate their own and
their team members’ emotions in a friendly way.

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 Activity 1 of 2: Ice breaker
ETA: 5mins
• Purpose: This activity helps you get to know your classmates.
• Task: In the CP5046 Slack channel, reply to the chat message “INTRODUCTIONS”
and post about yourself. Write your name, JCU email address, a fun fact about

Make sure to come back here and look at everyone’s posts this week 😊
yourself, and add a selfie (or recent picture) of you sitting at your (messy?) desk.

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 What is Miro?
• Miro is one of an ever-expanding set of online
collaboration tools.
• Such tools allow you to quickly share ideas
and designs with other people.
• We like Miro because it has lots of useful
templates, powerful drawing tools, and
sophisticated & integrated learning resources.

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 TODO: setup your Miro Account
ETA: right now (5 mins)
• Okay, first thing you need to do is setup a Miro Account and join our Miro team!
We have made this process easy – please click on the following permanent
“IT@JCU Miro Team” invite link (* ask your local lecturer for this!)
• If you don’t already have a Miro account, you will firstly see a “sign up” page. After
doing that you should see this:
CP5046

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 Note

• It is possible to create and manage your own Miro teams.

• Although, such a Miro team will have limited functionality after
30-days.
• It is possible to apply for a student educational plan.
• However, during this subject, we expect that you focus on using
our local Miro Team!

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 When you create a new Miro board, you will see
something like this:

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 Using Miro Board name
• Each board has a name (the default
name is “untitled”) and represents
an infinite digital whiteboard.
• You add content to a board using
Miro’s object menu.
• The object menu is feature-rich, it
Object menu
allows you add sticky notes, shapes,
text, and many more things!
• You can also paste images, web
page links and a variety of different
types of information into a Miro
board.

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 Using Miro
• After a while you will have added a
large amount of content to a board.
Board preview

• The board preview area is useful to

move around and zoom in/out of that
content.

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 Using Miro
• You can customise how you wish to
navigate a board using the “Navigation
Mode” under the “Settings” menu

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 Using Miro
• Miro includes a “guide” feature.
• This is a built-in help system that includes
various things such as “getting started”
advice and interactive “Tutorials”.
• We highly recommend that you explore
the help system! You will quickly learn
how to use Miro that way!

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 Using Miro
Miro Teams
• After a while, you will have generated CP5046
several Miro boards.
• It’s a good idea to group related boards
within a Miro “Project”.
• Miro boards and Miro projects are
collected within a Miro “Team”.
• You will only need to use our Miro Team
during this subject.

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 Using Miro
• You can share an individual Miro board
with many people – usually they will
also have a Miro account.
• There are a few ways to do this – one
way is by using the “share” button
when viewing a board

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 Self-learning suggestions
• For more, we suggest that you check out the Getting started video series from Miro’s
YouTube channel: Miro's YouTube channel
• This is also available via Miro’s learning academy web resources.

Other resources:
 Learning resources: https://academy.miro.com/learn
 Getting started: https://academy.miro.com/courses/getting-started-with-miro

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 Activity 2 of 2: Find potential teammates
ETA: 30mins
• Start finding your teammates by completing this simple “team formation” exercise. Once you can use the basic
features of Miro and Discord, please open the “CP5046 Team Formation” Miro board (* ask your local lecturer for this!)

• The board contains the instructions for completing this task.

• During this week, please use this Miro Board to help you discover potential teammates. First in best dressed!

• You should be selecting teammates who can complement your strengths and weaknesses!

• Staff are also available to help you find your teammates this week and next week.

• If you have started to find teammates then we suggest that you create a private “Miro Project” for your team
and invite your teammates and staff to it. Please let staff know who are your teammates – you might also
consider creating a private slack channel for your teammates and staff.

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 Purpose of this part of the Workshop
Start thinking about what type of project you wish
your team to focus on this semester

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 List of project from IT@JCU staff

• Local Lecturer will advise!

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 Explore real-world projects

• Do you know someone that needs something they do on paper

turned into a web app or mobile app?

• Do you know someone that needs a game or simulation built

in the Unity game engine?

• ??

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