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

Mon Sep 3 17:16:30 UTC 2012

+1 Allison. In fact, I'll be suggesting as much in the course creation
research & design this week on the community call.

VMG

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:

>
>>    - How does the course review process work? Is there a how-to / guide
>>    somewhere?
>>
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>>
>>    - 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.
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> 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
>>
>>
>>    - Philipp
>>
>>
>>    - Piet (on pad)
>>
>>
>>    - Dirk
>>
>>
>>    - Paul
>>
>>
>>    - Chris
>>
>>
>>    - 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
>>
>>
>>    - Talking to potential research groups
>>
>>
>>    - MIT/SoundCloud/P2PU event planning--tshirts!
>>
>>
>>    - Course Creation Research--almost finished
>>
>>
>>    - Chris
>>
>>
>>    - 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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