[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-webcraft-announce] School of Webcraft Update - Study Groups, Badges and Derbys! Oh My!
Pippa Buchanan
Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 14:23:25 UTC 2011
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On 27 June 2011 23:35, Matt Thompson <mthompson2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great! Thanks Pippa. Can you add some links to the agenda that helps give
> people a bit of a tour of what Lernata is all about and showing off its best
> current features?
>
>
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> On 2011-06-27, at 9:40 AM, Pippa Buchanan wrote:
>
> Hey Matt,
> sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. I'm able to make it for
> the call today and am happy to invite feedback about the new site and
> particularly the alpha version of the Webcraft pages.
>
> Zuzel, John, are either of you able to make it to the call to discuss the
> greater Lernanta / P2PU project aspect of this?
>
> Pippa
>
> On 27 June 2011 22:51, Matt Thompson <mthompson2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is anyone able to take us on a bit of a tour in today's Drumbeat call?
>>
>> --Matt
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>> On 2011-06-24, at 10:25 AM, Matt Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Pippa. Can we do an item on this in Monday's Drumbeat call? It's great
>> news (and a really well-written blog post.)
>> *http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Drumbeat-Monday-community-call-June*
>>
>> Would also love to have Zuzel and anyone from the tech development side
>> present to talk about the process that led us here.
>>
>> CCing Paul Osman as well. So that we can include the link from Batucada to
>> Lernata.
>>
>> --Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2011-06-23, at 11:48 AM, Pippa Buchanan wrote:
>>
>> To view this update in a browser, click here<http://learninglearning.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/school-of-webcraft-update-23062011/>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *School of Webcraft has a new home!*
>>
>> As part of the P2PU community, the School of Webcraft made the transition
>> to our new, custom built Lernanta platform last weekend. Hooray!
>>
>> From all of us here at School of Webcraft we'd like to thank P2PU's
>> Technical Lead, Zuzel and our amazing team of volunteer contributors for all
>> their hard work so far. We're looking forward to all the great new features
>> to come!
>>
>> *Got an idea of how to make the School of Webcraft's new pages rock?*
>> Let us know your ideas in the Webcraft discussion list<http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-webcraft>
>> !
>> Join, Branch, or Create a New Group
>>
>> So far, *over 25 groups* and courses have been setup on the new School of
>> Webcraft site and range from *learners asking for help* as they *program
>> for the first time*, through to more formal courses and structured study
>> groups:
>>
>> - HTML and CSS From The Beginning<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/html-css-from-the-beginning/>
>> - Let's GIT Together <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/lets-git-together/>
>> - Federated Social Web<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/federated-social-web/>
>> - View all School of Webcraft groups<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/all/?school=school-of-webcraft>
>> - Can't find what you're looking for?
>> - Create your own<http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/create/?school=school-of-webcraft>School of Webcraft group.
>>
>> Remember, the content for all groups on P2PU are *always open to explore*,
>> even if you're not a participant and the group is already full. If you
>> really like what a group is learning, you can *make your own version* of
>> it, invite participants and create your own versions of existing tasks to
>> work through together.
>>
>> To find out more about creating groups and *making your own branch* of an
>> existing group, watch this screencast on Creating a Study Group at P2PU<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/p2pu-help-desk/content/how-to-start-a-study-group-on-p2pu/>
>> .
>> Help review our upcoming School of Webcraft badges
>>
>> Along with the Mozilla Open Badges <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges>project we're working on the 2nd phase in our pilot phase of
>> *web developer badges*. Erin, our badge lead has written up the draft
>> badge criteria and now we need *you* to review them.
>>
>> To give feedback on the draft criteria for badges on HTML, CSS,
>> Popcorn.js, HTML5 and CSS3 visit Erin's blog post<http://erinknight.com/post/6297138742/new-badges-and-assessments-help-needed>
>> .
>> Learn cool new web technologies and enter the MDN Dev Derby!
>>
>> *MDN* is the codename of our friends over at Mozilla Developers Network<https://developer.mozilla.org/>
>> .
>>
>> - MDN run the *Hacks <http://hacks.mozilla.org/> blog* featuring cool
>> things built with Mozilla Firefox and the *open web*.
>> - They curate the *Mozilla Docs Centre<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs>
>> *: one of the *best technical resources* for Web Developers *ever*.
>> - And now, every month they're running the *Dev Derby<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/devderby>
>> * - a *web demo competition*!
>>
>> In *July* the Dev Derby is focused on *HTML5 *. MDN curated *great
>> resources <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/devderby#resources>*about the new video features which would be
>> *perfect* as the basis for a *School of Webcraft study group*. We'd love
>> to see some School of Webcraft participants *get their demos featured* in
>> July's derby!
>>
>> To get started *learning* and preparing your *HTML5 demo* for a chance to
>> win some *pretty wicked prizes* from MDN, create a study group<http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/create/?school=school-of-webcraft>.
>> Remember to *check out MDN <https://developer.mozilla.org/>* for the
>> documentation and *learning resources* you'll need for your group.
>> Get Involved
>>
>> There are lots of great ways to get involved with School of Webcraft and
>> help build our community of web developers.
>>
>> - *Start a learning project at School of Webcraft*
>> It’s easy, just create a P2PU account and follow the prompts<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/?school=school-of-webcraft>
>> .
>> - *Got a question about School of Webcraft? *
>> Check out our Frequently Asked Questions<http://p2pu.org/webcraft/school-webcraft-frequently-asked-questions>
>> .**
>> - *Join the Webcraft Discussion List*
>> To participate in ongoing discussions about the project, sign-up here<http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-webcraft>
>> .
>> - *Dying to just hack? *
>> Learn more at the Contributing to Lernanta<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/introduction-to-contributing-to-lernata/>group.
>> Submit a bug on the tracker<http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta>
>> Contribute to the code at Github <https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta>
>>
>> Do you have some exciting news, or a request for help we should be sharing
>> in our Webcraft updates? Don't keep it a secret, let us know<p2pu-webcraft at lists.p2pu.org>
>> !
>>
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