[p2pu-dev] P2PU Homepage

João Menezes tonyhomes at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 23:22:41 UTC 2011


Thank you, Philipp, great to be back in action :)


2011/11/17 Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>

> Joao: Great to hear from you again and congratulations regarding the
> degree.
>
> We've been speaking a lot about increasing the sense of community and
> using color more strategically fits very well with that suggestion.
>
> P
>
> 2011/11/5 João Menezes <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>
>> Hey there everyone, [?]
>> Sorry for my absence lately, I'm about to get my degree this month and
>> I've been rushing with it for some time now.
>>
>> Great to see evolution with P2PU Design-related topics. I remember
>> commenting something about P2PU branding in the past, and I see we can
>> explore it a bit more. As participating in P2PU is something cool and fun,
>> there could be more spots of color in it. I'm not saying color must replace
>> the minimalist interface we currently have neither get in the way of any
>> elements. As color is an emotional/subjective resource, it has the ability
>> to make P2PU unique.
>>
>> Here are some references I took from Abduzeedo.com that explore both
>> simplistic and colorful interface elements (being them banners, photos,
>> icons, headliners, etc):
>>
>> https://booki.sh/
>> http://wearepandr.com/
>> http://10k.aneventapart.com/
>> http://virb.com/
>> http://pinpointsocial.com/
>> http://columnfivemedia.com/
>> http://duet.me/
>> http://foodsense.is/
>>
>> Again, I'm not saying the website must be the antique collection of
>> colorful boxes we had last year. I just feel it connects better with the
>> spirit of P2PU being more emotional and not so systemic.
>>
>> Keep it up!
>> João
>>
>>
>> PS: Heard there are some P2PU sessions at Mozilla Festival this year -
>> way to go! :)
>>
>>
>> 2011/11/3 Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org>
>>
>>> A few points. There's a few too may threads to interject them in between
>>> the lines.
>>>
>>> Overall this looks great!
>>>
>>> I like the infographic that tells the story of "how it works". Perhaps
>>> the "recognition" button should have a badge icon instead of a graduation
>>> cap?
>>>
>>> I have issues with the "as featured in"  stream of publications that
>>> have featured us. Most pubs have mentioned us in passing in articles that
>>> focus on the bigger picture of education and haven't actually directly
>>> endorsed our mission anyhow.
>>>
>>> A visitor should get a strong sense of a DIY community upon first glance
>>> of P2PU. This is way more important and, like Jessy, I feel it's missing
>>> from the front page. I'd rather see a brief showcase of people and courses.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> >What needs to be changed? What needs to be removed?
>>>>
>>>> Read till end.
>>>>
>>>> There was an interesting post on Reddit today from an intern at the
>>>> Khan Academy on the subject of using "*Machine Learning to Assess
>>>> Student Mastery*". While repetition and testing is not the paradigm
>>>> P2PU uses, it is interesting to see the level of mathematics (logistic
>>>> regression) being applied to assess student proficiency at Khan. In the
>>>> results section of the post, A/B testing was mentioned as being used to
>>>> evaluate different math models for calculating learner proficiency. This
>>>> apparently isn't the only area where A/B testing is used at Khan to drive
>>>> decisions.
>>>>
>>>> To put A/B testing in perspective of web site design decisions, check
>>>> out three slides in this presentation starting on slide 7 where two
>>>> different registration forms are presented:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/3296257?startSlide=7
>>>>
>>>> Well apparently Ben Kamens - lead dev at Khan - is using a A/B testing
>>>> framework at Khan:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/kamens/gae_bingo
>>>>
>>>> This framework makes it dead simple to inject alternatives into the
>>>> Khan platform and to automatically collect data from a sample of users
>>>> concerning which alternative has the better outcome or metric.
>>>>
>>>> This framework runs seamlessly on Google's App Engine (Khan runs on App
>>>> Engine) but is allegedly framework agnostic (works with webapp, Django,
>>>> Flask, whatever).
>>>>
>>>> So to comment on the original question "*What needs to be changed?
>>>> What needs to be removed?*" it would be very interesting and cutting
>>>> edge to answer some of these questions based on live A/B testing of the
>>>> P2PU platform.
>>>>
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>>>
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