[p2pu-webcraft] What are the core topics that should always have active study groups?

Dan Diebolt dandiebolt at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 14:49:41 UTC 2011


The problem with holding courses or study groups on any these development
topics is they each require specific infrastructure, resources and tools
where there little or no support in the P2PU platform. Any potential course
organizer has to come up with their own external resources outside the P2PU
platform to facilitate a course.

If you want to expand WebCraft topics using the existing P2PU platform
features (basically limited to exchanging narrative messages) think
about covering design topics rather than development topics. One route to
design topics might be to create a study group that discusses and explores
in greater depth a design podcast such as The Big Web Show by Dan Benjamin
(founder of 5by5) and Jeffrey Zeldman (founder of A List Apart). In fact the
last show discussing typography has a nice 10 minute segment on self
directed learning vs college training for web designers:

The Big Web Show (MINUS -30:30)
http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/46

<http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/46>Another approach might be to create a
discussion group that discuss tools (git, jsfiddle, firebug, verifiers,
lints, etc) that assist various webcraft tasks. These topics could be very
short and more suited to narrative presentation.
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