[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] Notes from This Week's Community Call

[Alison Cole]

>
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>    - How does the course review process work? Is there a how-to / guide
>    somewhere?
>
>

>
>    - People need more guidance about using the technology within the
>    system - like how to place a YouTube embed so that it doesn't look weird,
>    and how to use graphics to unify the theme of their course, we've talked
>    about personal branding, and it can be really simple, but people don't know
>    about them.
>
>
>    - PA -> I think it might be useful to help people know how to get in
>    contact with other people. And also it's important to let people know that
>    it's okay to open it up before it's "done" (if a course is ever really
>    "done")
>
>
>    - BK/VMG to build basic course review rubrik
>
> This is far out, but I'd love it if course design advice were embedded
into the design process and examples of great courses were little pop ups
(new windows) I could explore. When I'm done designing my course gets sent
to the community for review, however, I have the power to run it without
waiting for feedback. Review shouldn't be too rubrik-ized. I think this
time could be better spent on embedding help where it's needed.
A






On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:

> We was on fire! Fire, I tell you...
> Thanks to everyone who attended (especially power-users Paul and Leah)
> As always, the full transcript and notes can be found on the etherpad:
> http://pad.p2pu.org/p/community-20120830
> *
> *
> *Attendees (welcome to any newbies)*
>
>
>    - Bekka
>
>
>    - Vanessa
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>    - Philipp
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>
>    - Piet (on pad)
>
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>    - Dirk
>
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>    - Paul
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>    - Chris
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>    - Leah
>
>
> *Standups **What have you been up to? Short **written** notes (we'll
> discuss only if there are questions)*
>
>
>    - Bekka
>
>
>    - Finance handover: SPREADSHEETS! SPREADSHEETS!
>
>
>    - Contacting course organisers
>
>
>    - Berlin write-up
>
>
>    - Course reviews
>
>
>    - Vanessa
>
>
>    - Mechanical MOOOOOOC: 3,000 signups!!!!!!
>
>
>    - Drafting email messages for content
>
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>    - Talking to potential research groups
>
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>    - MIT/SoundCloud/P2PU event planning--tshirts!
>
>
>    - Course Creation Research--almost finished
>
>
>    - Chris
>
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>    - CSS framework
>
>
>    - Implementing Alex's mockups
>
>
>    - Will be released later today (in current state)
>
>
>    - Philipp
>
>
>    - Catching up on finance (P2PU to submit its first tax returns) but
>    main kudos to Bekka
>
>
>    - MOOC Certification discussion with OpenStudy
>
>
>    - Getting ready for US migration (leaving CPT 14 sept, arrive US 22
>    sept)
>
>
>    - Dirk
>
>
>    - Release -
>    http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/28/release-notes-tagging-languages-another-school-happy-days/
>
>
>    - There will be only one course
>
>
>    - Badges
>
>
>    - Pieter
>
>
>    - on Monday with Luka C., submitted a letter of intent to the Digital
>    Media & Learning badge research competition
>
>
>    - our on-going notes with the actual 250-word letter at the bottom:
>    http://pad.p2pu.org/p/DML-research-comp
>
>
>    - we're waiting to hear back from the DML folks -- they'll probably
>    reach out to P2PU organizers about our letter at some point
>
>
>    - finalized a few courses for the School of Open and publicly
>    published them on P2PU (with great help from Jane, Molly, Emily, and Dave)
>
>
>    - exploring ways to tie P2PU into Open.Michigan activities, mainly
>    through the School of Open and School of Data efforts; added a new
>    "practice" section to our site: http://open.umich.edu/share/practice
>
>
>    - we'll be encouraging new grad students at U-M to try the "Get CC
>    Savvy" course at P2PU during their orientation tomorrow
>
>
>    - Add your name if you have any news (optional)
>
>
> *News of the week **Written** notes on what's going on in our world
> (bring up special announcements on the call)*
>
>
>    - Blog posts you wrote
>
>
>    - Articles you read
>
>
>    - Initiatives you heard about
>
>
> *Key updates*  *Super short updates about P2PU*
>
>
>    - Exciting new courses to check out or review (Bekka)
>
>
>    - https://p2pu.org/en/groups/technovation-kickoff/ (still under
>    development but getting ready to go live - any and all feedback to them
>    would be most welcome!)
>
>
>    - https://p2pu.org/en/groups/devmath/ - a great study group, seems not
>    to be affiliated with School of Ed, but perhaps should be. No participants
>    yet.
>
>
>    - Ruth Rominger is one of the most active contributors to School of Ed
>    - suspect it's just in draft status, and will become part of SoEd in future
>
>
>    - Paul Allison -> course development has such a local aspect and I get
>    feedback from all over the place, and I appreciate the offers, but knowing
>    when to ask is tough.
>
>
>    - Perhaps some clarity from P2PU on who the people who give feedback
>    are would be useful.
>
>
>    - Curriculum design on the secondary teaching level is really
>    iterative - until students get in there and mess around, you never really
>    know. I've put up more boilerplate stuff and am waiting until students get
>    into it to find out.
>
>
>    - But I feel like, in terms of badge development, I feel like I got
>    key feedback at the right times.
>
>
>    - Question to PA: Did you feel you were getting sufficient / good
>    feedback and response to your courses? Would you like more? Different
>    feedback?
>
>
>    - We also had a call with Karen and Paul walking through the
>    curriculum that was very fruitful
>
>
>    - Development priorities (Dirk)
>
>
>    - CSS framework
>
>
>    - This is one of the big things we're still busy with - we should have
>    something to look at on alpha.p2pu.org soonish
>
>
>    - Course unification
>
>
>    - This is the process of merging the two
>
>
>    - State of the mustard (Philipp)
>
>
>    - Nad had to put metrics work on hold
>
>
>    - Stats for Aug slightly down compared to July, but basic metrics we
>    track feel less and less relevant
>
>
>    - More useful / interesting -> Mechanical MOOC 3000 signups
>
>
>    - Hopefully in the next few weeks we'll get more information on
>    activity within courses, which will be more useful.
>
>
> *Agenda **Core of the call. Focused on four types of conversations
> (invited guests, challenges you need help with, proposals you want feedback
> on, ideas you need collaborators for). *
>
>
>    - Any feedback from Campus Party?
>
>
>    - There is a video -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeMY5bw6NB4
>
>
>    - Vanessa -> I spoke to Niels on Tuesday, he thought he was only going
>    to speak for 15 minutes, but they gave him an hour, so he and Paul Osman
>    spoke about dev on P2PU as well. He was back-to-back with the other
>    speaker, which was a bit distracting.
>
>
>    - Next week: course creation presentation
>
>
> *General discussion and questions*
>
>
>    - How does the course review process work? Is there a how-to / guide
>    somewhere?
>
>
>    - Only staff have permission to do reviews right now
>
>
>    - What's holding us back from opening it up?
>
>
>    - BK -> nothing, I think. At least from a pedagogical perspective
>
>
>    - DU: We can manually give permission to let more people do reviews,
>    but opening it up to everyone will require a write-up and will be some work
>    to set up
>
>
>    - Recommend to lift restrictions
>
>
>    - BK -> How about we create a very basic 5 point guideline
>
>
>    - Some general practices (be nice, remember not everyone speaks english,
>    look for skills identified, what are peer interactions, etc) and also
>    simple instruction -> what you are supposed to do ie: "click the
>    review button", let people know where/who the message comes from etc)
>
>
>    -
>    https://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-course/content/bonus-task-playstorm/
>
>
>    - I've only reviewed courses off p2pu.org, in draft form--I'm unclear
>    about how to do it myself
>
>
>    - What are the things we are looking for (checklist) when we review?
>
>
>    - VMG uses guidelines from course design. It's in the "create a
>    course" course.
>    https://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-course/content/bonus-task-playstorm/
>    - and repurposing it would be GREAT!
>
>
>    - Leah -> VMG and I have looked at this rubric and talked about it a
>    lot.
>
>
>    - People need more guidance about using the technology within the
>    system - like how to place a YouTube embed so that it doesn't look weird,
>    and how to use graphics to unify the theme of their course, we've talked
>    about personal branding, and it can be really simple, but people don't know
>    about them.
>
>
>    - PA -> I think it might be useful to help people know how to get in
>    contact with other people. And also it's important to let people know that
>    it's okay to open it up before it's "done" (if a course is ever really
>    "done")
>
>
>    - BK/VMG to build basic course review rubrik
>
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Alison
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