[p2pu-webcraft] [p2pu-schools] Re: Please review: default decline message for non Webcraft courses and groups

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http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/445-facilitate-school-group-recruiting-process

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:
> +1 for removal of school association in course creation (or making it
> much more obvious, the whole schools thing really confused the
> shuttleworth users)
>
> +1 for avoiding to deny users to do anything
>
> +1 for course creation notifications to go to pippa and anyone else
> who wants them as well (maybe any user on the site can choose to
> receive them?)
>
> P
>
>
> On 22 June 2011 23:12, Alison Jean Cole <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If school organizers would feel overwhelmed by this, I am happy to direct
>> all new courses to appropriate schools. I would much prefer to do this +
>> remove the school option from the course creation page, than deny folks who
>> are prompted to pick a school, but not explained clearly its role. It
>> creates unnecesary negative feedback.
>>
>> ALISON
>> p2pu.org/en/alison/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jessica Ledbetter
>> <jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I totally agree Ali, declining people is bad. They should be invited in
>>>> to Schools
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>> I think admin at p2pu is emailed when new courses are created. Can maybe cc
>>> school organizers (if they're not on the admin list already) for a stopgap
>>> till we get tags.
>>> Also a group organizer can ping the school in question in case her/his
>>> group is missed. Then it'd be handy to have a version of this email
>>> probably.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Alison Jean Cole
>>>> <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Agree with Jessy's feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> My hope is that denial will be a temporary process until we have a good
>>>>> tagging system in place.
>>>>>
>>>>> Schools could then review courses tagged with their topics and invite
>>>>> them to join the school. I would remove "select a school" from the course
>>>>> creation process and replace it with tags. That way we avoid having a
>>>>> negative system in place altogether.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ALISON
>>>>> p2pu.org/en/alison/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jessy Kate Schingler
>>>>> <jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i think it was for p2pu as a whole. i do like the idea that people who
>>>>>> have questions could contact an individual person directly with their
>>>>>> concerns or questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jessy
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> http://jessykate.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Pippa Buchanan
>>>>>> <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> great feedback from jessy - but I accidentally deferred the message in
>>>>>>> the moderation filter. sorry jessy!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> switching the order of the explanation makes sense - thanks for
>>>>>>> pointing that out!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> re volunteer course mentors - i recall us discussing it, but it didn't
>>>>>>> go much further then that. Was this meant to be a general P2PU approach or
>>>>>>> SoW specific?  Once we've got tags in place we'll also be able to point
>>>>>>> organisers towards many other organsiers working on similar topics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> From: Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com>
>>>>>>> To: "School of Webcraft (Sow)" <p2pu-webcraft at lists.p2pu.org>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:43:49 -0400
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [p2pu-webcraft] Please review: default decline message
>>>>>>> for non Webcraft courses and groups
>>>>>>> cool :) here's a couple thoughts:
>>>>>>> i would put the description about SoW and what differentiates it from
>>>>>>> p2pu *before* your decline statement, so that when you say, "it doesn't fit"
>>>>>>> you've already given the context for why.
>>>>>>> also when you say "let the community know" i would have a link to an
>>>>>>> individual person, as well a link to the mailing list. otherwise "community"
>>>>>>> seems a bit vague. i imagine many people won';t want to join a mailing list
>>>>>>> just to worksop their topic and if that's the only option, we might lose
>>>>>>> them, so having a human is useful IMHO.
>>>>>>> didn't we discuss the idea of having volunteer course
>>>>>>> mentors/contacts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jessy
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> http://jessykate.com
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