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

[Jos Flores]

Hey guys,

Some very exciting stuff in the notes, as usual.

Happy New Year to all!

cheers,
José



On 3 January 2013 16:59, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:
> Happy New Year, good people of P2PU!
>
> 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.
>
> As always, the full set of notes and chat transcript can be found on the
> etherpad. Which is here: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/community-20130103
>
>
>
>
> P2PU Community Call
> 3 January 2013
> General Progress Report
>
> Attendees
>
> Vanessa
> Dirk
> Bekka
> Philipp
> Luka
> Chris
>
>
> Agenda
>
> 4 Ps and an i Report Back
>
> Progress (what we've been working on)
>
> Q: What's the status of School of Data MOOC?
>
> We need to have a kickoff meeting (tmr) about tech needs for that--Scoda
> wants to launch ASAP
> They have a curriculum, and a recommended grouping script
> Issues will be:
> Who buys the URL
> Who hosts the signup page
> Signup copy:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_-vMBOr-DDUkxyJPSdwn58O3f-j-WISTIuhDCGqmL4/edit#
> Where people will post their work to--will it be wordpress or p2pu.org?
> Badges & P2PU profiles--there's some duplication here
> Linking content--using bit.ly links to track engagement
> Is bit.ly better than the tracking from mailgun? Mailgun has great link
> tracking - not sure if bitly is better though
> Shouldn't we just use mailgun (since we built the MOOController party to
> make automatic link tracking possible) - Agreed
> Potential solution from Chris--admin account in Mailgun
> Naming the mechanical mooc groups
>
> OnPhD - this is very cool, btw - https://p2pu.org/en/groups/onphd-candidacy/
> Content strategy
>
> Reading list:
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-checklist-for-content-work/
> https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Content%20Strategy/Kissane%2C%20Elements%20of%20Content%20Strategy/elements-of-content-strategy.pdf?w=0e1e01af
> Planned outcomes: content calendar, content outcomes/metrics for success
>
> Renewed our membership of OCWC
> Monitoring busy courses (loads of activity in the following courses this
> week:
>
> Badge maker
> Programming with Twitter API
> Technovation Challenge
> Webmaking 101
>
> MOOC Sequence 3 grouping
> Doing a confirmation email step for this sequence
> MOOC Blog Post
> Updated tech plan 2013 -
> https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1AoM5tp36f6cqSvuvFRzEehPOinColGeSXsmxVnrefOQ/edit
>
> please add comment in the doc - dirk will relook and upload next week
>
> 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.
>
> Hiring student assistants
> Overall framing
> http://mas714.media.mit.edu/syllabus
>
>
> Priorities (focus for next week)
>
> Badges dev hiring!!!
> Assessment Manifesto---get 'er DONE
> Content Strategy planning w Bekka tmr +1
> Mechanical MOOC curriculum review
> Decide on tech help for badges
> Newsletter
> Communications calendar
> Survey design
> rescheduled meeting with IndyHall Adam
> Post tech plan to blog next week
> Finish development process document
> Work on translation course
> P2PU Strategy call summary / post
> MOOC next stpes - funding proposal
> Media Lab course
> MOOC Grouping early next week
> CSS Framework
> MOOC Controller planning call (Saturday)
> School of Data MOOC
>
>
>
> Problems (walls I ran into on the way)
>
> 9AM, 1 Jan 2013 felt like I had run into a wall
> VMG is in an intensive course for the next two weeks - so give her a break!
>
>
>
> Process (org stuff)
>
> Share questions before call
>
>
>
> Ideas (what's on the horizon)
>
> FYI team--Vanessa is going to be speaking at the Content Strategy Conference
> (Confab): http://confabevents.com/events/minneapolis-2013/speakers/
> Also DML Badges meeting--->truth, Mozz is headed to LA to ROCK DML
> Philipp is speaking about The Future of the Future of the Future of the
> University / Jan 30, Berlin, http://collaboratory.de
> Register for the event ->
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF92Z0E3S0oybjJ4RjRWdnk5TzJMVHc6MA
> 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).
> Surveying the Mechanical MOOC 0
> Steve Carson ran a survey with first batch of Gentle Intro to Python folks.
> June and Steve are looking at the data.
> 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.
>
>
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