Happy New Year, good people of P2PU!<div><br></div><div>Here are the notes from this week's call - which was just about a perfect call - we covered loads of ground, answered big questions, thought about stuff, and ended with about 20 minutes to spare. Ideal, really. Thanks to everyone who joined us. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As always, the full set of notes and chat transcript can be found on the etherpad. Which is here: <a href="http://pad.p2pu.org/p/community-20130103">http://pad.p2pu.org/p/community-20130103</a></div><div>
<br></div><div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>P2PU Community Call</b></div><div><b>3 January 2013</b></div><div><b>General Progress Report</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attendees</b></div>
<div><br></div><div><ul><li>Vanessa</li><li>Dirk</li><li>Bekka</li><li>Philipp</li><li>Luka</li><li>Chris</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Agenda</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>4 Ps and an i Report Back</b></div><div>
<br></div><div><u>Progress (what we've been working on)</u></div><div><ul><li>Q: What's the status of School of Data MOOC?</li><ul><li>We need to have a kickoff meeting (tmr) about tech needs for that--Scoda wants to launch ASAP</li>
<li>They have a curriculum, and a recommended grouping script</li><li>Issues will be:</li><li>Who buys the URL</li><li>Who hosts the signup page</li><li>Signup copy: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_-vMBOr-DDUkxyJPSdwn58O3f-j-WISTIuhDCGqmL4/edit#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_-vMBOr-DDUkxyJPSdwn58O3f-j-WISTIuhDCGqmL4/edit#</a></li>
<li>Where people will post their work to--will it be wordpress or <a href="http://p2pu.org">p2pu.org</a>?</li><li>Badges & P2PU profiles--there's some duplication here</li><li>Linking content--using <a href="http://bit.ly">bit.ly</a> links to track engagement</li>
<li>Is <a href="http://bit.ly">bit.ly</a> better than the tracking from mailgun? Mailgun has great link tracking - not sure if bitly is better though</li><li>Shouldn't we just use mailgun (since we built the MOOController party to make automatic link tracking possible) - Agreed</li>
<li>Potential solution from Chris--admin account in Mailgun</li><li>Naming the mechanical mooc groups</li></ul><li>OnPhD - this is very cool, btw - <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/onphd-candidacy/">https://p2pu.org/en/groups/onphd-candidacy/</a></li>
<li>Content strategy</li><ul><li>Reading list:</li><li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-checklist-for-content-work/">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-checklist-for-content-work/</a></li><li><a href="https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Content%20Strategy/Kissane%2C%20Elements%20of%20Content%20Strategy/elements-of-content-strategy.pdf?w=0e1e01af">https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Content%20Strategy/Kissane%2C%20Elements%20of%20Content%20Strategy/elements-of-content-strategy.pdf?w=0e1e01af</a></li>
<li>Planned outcomes: content calendar, content outcomes/metrics for success</li></ul><li>Renewed our membership of OCWC </li><li>Monitoring busy courses (loads of activity in the following courses this week:</li><ul><li>
Badge maker</li><li>Programming with Twitter API</li><li>Technovation Challenge</li><li>Webmaking 101</li></ul><li>MOOC Sequence 3 grouping</li><li>Doing a confirmation email step for this sequence</li><li>MOOC Blog Post</li>
<li>Updated tech plan 2013 - <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1AoM5tp36f6cqSvuvFRzEehPOinColGeSXsmxVnrefOQ/edit">https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1AoM5tp36f6cqSvuvFRzEehPOinColGeSXsmxVnrefOQ/edit</a></li>
<ul><li>please add comment in the doc - dirk will relook and upload next week</li></ul><li>MIT Media Lab / P2PU course - this is a course about creative learning technologies - it will be messy and hacked together, probably with video stuff and using Google + tools.</li>
<ul><li>Hiring student assistants </li><li>Overall framing</li><li><a href="http://mas714.media.mit.edu/syllabus">http://mas714.media.mit.edu/syllabus</a></li></ul></ul></div><div><br></div><div><u>Priorities (focus for next week)</u></div>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><ul><li>Badges dev hiring!!!</li><li>Assessment Manifesto---get 'er DONE</li><li>Content Strategy planning w Bekka tmr +1</li><li>Mechanical MOOC curriculum review</li>
<li>Decide on tech help for badges</li><li>Newsletter</li><li>Communications calendar</li><li>Survey design</li><li>rescheduled meeting with IndyHall Adam</li><li>Post tech plan to blog next week</li><li>Finish development process document</li>
<li>Work on translation course</li><li>P2PU Strategy call summary / post</li><li>MOOC next stpes - funding proposal</li><li>Media Lab course</li><li>MOOC Grouping early next week</li><li>CSS Framework</li><li>MOOC Controller planning call (Saturday)</li>
<li>School of Data MOOC</li></ul></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><u>Problems (walls I ran into on the way)</u></div><div><ul><li>9AM, 1 Jan 2013 felt like I had run into a wall</li><li>VMG is in an intensive course for the next two weeks - so give her a break!</li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><u>Process (org stuff)</u></div><div><ul><li>Share questions before call</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><u>Ideas (what's on the horizon) </u></div><div>
<ul><li>FYI team--Vanessa is going to be speaking at the Content Strategy Conference (Confab): <a href="http://confabevents.com/events/minneapolis-2013/speakers/">http://confabevents.com/events/minneapolis-2013/speakers/</a></li>
<li>Also DML Badges meeting--->truth, Mozz is headed to LA to ROCK DML</li><li>Philipp is speaking about The Future of the Future of the Future of the University / Jan 30, Berlin, <a href="http://collaboratory.de">http://collaboratory.de</a></li>
<li>Register for the event -> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF92Z0E3S0oybjJ4RjRWdnk5TzJMVHc6MA">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF92Z0E3S0oybjJ4RjRWdnk5TzJMVHc6MA</a></li>
<li>They're a think tank about internet & society (Humboldt University, Google, etc.) and just ran a working group about learning, P will speak about learning and the future of learning and digital learning and probably drink some beer (definitely drink some beer, but not too much).</li>
<li>Surveying the Mechanical MOOC 0</li><li>Steve Carson ran a survey with first batch of Gentle Intro to Python folks. June and Steve are looking at the data. </li><li>Did we have any input into the types of questions asked? I think we have a lot of stuff we want to know from our users, and it makes sense for us to ask them questions more often, and well, rather than less often. </li>
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