10.21 - To, Cc, Bcc

We started class today by doing an activity called "Royals."

Royals

In this activity, everyone got a card which they put on their forehead. No one looked at their card or could tell another person what their card said. Everyone then began to mingle. The rules to mingling though were that people should treat other people in accordance with the status on their cards. 

Royal cards (queen, king, jack) were to be treated very well, then tens or nines would be treated quite well and so on down to the 2s who people could talk to, but they didn't have to worry about being polite or formal or what not (no one should be rude or mean). 

If a card of a higher rank walked up, people should direct their attention to that person and bring them into the conversation. If a card of a lower rank walked up, people could include them as they saw fit.

We ran through this activity twice, with people trying to guess what card they had based on how others treated them. In our debrief we talked about the different ways people interacted, how it felt to be treated at the different levels, and then how this applies to our work in Civic Action. The highlights of this discussion were as follows:

- High school has hierarchies like this where everyone wants to talk to certain royal/popular people and people avoid talking to "low scoring" people.
- In the project teams, people might occupy different spaces within the high school hierarchy, but everyone should treat everyone else as equals.
- In some of these projects, we are helping less fortunate people, but we should not make those people feel like they are being helped because they are "2"s, but because we value them and want to help them (like "royals").

I then talked a bit about another way these hierarchies can play out and be represented through email. We talked about how to use the "To," "Cc," and "Bcc" features on an email and what those do in terms of including someone on an email, asking things of them, keeping them in the loop, and putting them in a position of power in terms of being part of a conversation. Select slides from that presentation are as follows:

 

 

We talked a bit about how "Cc"ing someone on an email puts them in a position of power since they are asked to observe, but not participate in a conversation. "Bcc"ing puts someone in a very high position since it includes them in the conversation and makes it a secret to someone else. Sending someone an email should be an act that puts someone on the same page as everyone else.

Next, project teams met to review what tasks they had completed, what tasks were up next for completion, and if they had any additional questions.

Homework:

Work as determined by your project team.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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