Master Retreat
November 6th, 2009 by derjanIn half an hour I will enter my car to go to Verden. Or better said the Schullandheim Verdener Brunnen. 50 junior master, 1 senior and 10 lecturers will join (hopefully).
So here is the Agenda:
Until 11h: Travel to Youth Hostel
11-12h: rooms etc.
12-13h: Lunch
13-13.30h: Agenda
13.30h-15h: Mutual presentation of students (MW)
15-15.30h: Coffee break
15.30h-17h: Q&A about the Master program (AB)
17-18h: Initial meeting of the 5 Master projects (sepearate rooms!) -> individual agenda by the project supervisors
18-19h: Joint Dinner preparation
19h-20.30h: Dinner (we will be having a grill party outside so please cover yourself appropriately
after 20.30h: Fun (both organised by the new Master of the Uni as a miniproject exercise)
SATURDAY
8.30-9.30h: Breakfast
9.30h-11.30h: Kick-off Workshop for the 5 Master projects (individual agenda)
11.30-11.45h: Coffee Break
11.45-12.45h: Mutual presentation of the project ideas / visions (10 minutes each)
13.00-14.00h: Lunch
As we students had to decide to prepare dinner or the entertainment evening I joined the entertainment group. We ha´ve an very flexible outline. But I can give an repot after that ( including Flickr documentation 
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:29
mhm! i see… retreat != retreat. the retreat i meant was a weekend to discuss problems within the whole digital media program. the participants where ~20 lecturers and ~5 students…
your retreat sounds to be more fun, though
November 9th, 2009 at 0:10
Oh, we had !
It was very exciting, actually. But sadly, only a few students of the University of Arts showed up. Roland Kerstein catched some up later at friday evening and returned with them to Verden, so that more than 40 students participated.
We had some very productive meetings with the groups and also our first kick-off meeting for the upcoming master project which were presented to the whole audience afterwards.
But as in any case: One point of the agenda drove us all crazy. One hour of how to survive our burocratic mess of inter-university affairs, “Scheins”, registration of modules… that dark side of the digital media. So we reached the point of no return and skipped to grilling and entertainment afterwards. Some boxes of beer were organized … you´ll know
It was hopefully a pleasure to all of us 
For my instance: The poker game I organized lasted up till 1:30 a.m.. And they finished with an split-pot to find an end 
It was like the journey to an open minded hostel somewhere. Very international and accidentally all within this hostel studied the same subject.
Sharing Ideas, socializing. And to retrieve an overview of what is currently going on. Seems to be a very motivated group !