[p2pu-webcraft] Exciting New Courses at P2PU

Wed Apr 18 17:00:44 UTC 2012

*Hello Webcrafters!*

*P2PU is excited to announce a treasure chest of new courses and
challenges<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/?all_languages=on&featured=community>that
cover our widest range of topics yet.
*
In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to make
courses more social,
scalable<http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/09/30/loads-of-learning/>and
easier
to find<http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2012/03/16/finding-courses-challenges-just-got-easier/>.
We’ve jazzed up learner profiles where you can add your P2PU badges to
your Mozilla
Backpack <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/FAQs>. You can visit P2PU.org in
English, Spanish and help
out<http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2012/02/14/p2pu-in-het-nederlands-en-espanol/>with
Swedish, Dutch, and Chinese translations. A P2PU ambassador
program <http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/12/06/567/> is under way. The School
of Data<http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2012/02/08/announcing-the-okfn-p2pu-school-of-data/>and
School
of Open <http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/11/29/the-school-of-open/> are
soon to pilot their first courses..

*Here’s highlights of some of the great
courses<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/?all_languages=on&featured=community>you
can expect to find from your peers at P2PU:
*

*Entrepreneurial
Marketing*<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/entrepreneurial-mktg-mission-and-vision/>
In this challenge, you will craft a mission and vision statement for  your
enterprise. This will be the foundation for all the marketing for your
enterprise, be it a business, a non-profit, an event, a  hobby, a special
project, or any pursuit that needs marketing.

*Design Your First Big
Game*<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/keep-calm-and-start-playing/>
Are you ready to get out on the streets and re-imagine your cityscape?  Use
a bench as your headquarters, play with projections on the walls, plan maps
using chalk, jump over imaginary obstacles, defend a  fountain, dance in
front of changing traffic lights and hide a treasure under a bus stop!

*Writing for the Web* <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-for-the-web/>
Writing for the web requires a new set of skills. Wondering how to make
the  shift? Interested in writing for a digital audience? Not sure about
expressing your ideas and opinions in a public forum? This challenge is
for you. In this challenge, you’ll discover how to write for the web,
engage others in a dialogue, get up to speed on netiquette, and share  your
ideas.  You’ll acquire instincts about web writing that will guide you as
mediums and formats change.

*Curating Content* <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/curating-content/>
How  many times have you tried to check a quick fact online and then lost
an hour following links and checking unhelpful websites? The
proliferation of paid search results and content mills makes it   difficult
to find what you want. Like traditional museum and gallery   curators,
digital curators acquire useful works and artifacts that fit   into their
collections. Get started organizing online content and  explore curation
tools in Curating Content. **

*Become a Citizen Scientist with
BOINC*<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/learn-how-to-contribute-to-science/>
This challenge will show you how to download, install and run the  software
you need to enable you to join citizen science projects.
**
 <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-researchers-abode/>

*The Indie Researchers Homestead*
<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-researchers-abode/>**
Join the ranks of the curious – from Newton to Darwin. In this set of Open
Science challenges you assert your right and intention to document and hone
your curiosity by starting a research notebook for your ideas, curating a
reading list and exploring research literature.

*Hack the P2PU **C**ode*<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/introduction-to-contributing-to-lernata/>
This challenge will show you how to install and modify Lernanta, the
software responsible for everything you see at http://p2pu.org.

*Open Badges 101* <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-world-of-open-badges/>
Perhaps you’ve heard about Open Badges, but you’re not sure where to turn
to find out more. The Open Badges 101 Challenge gives you a basic
introduction to the topic and advice on how to get connected to the open
badges community.
**
*And here’s some of the offerings from your peers at School of
Ed<http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-ed-pilot/>and School
of Webcraft <http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/>:***

*Global Classrooms Collaborations for
Elementary<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/elem-classroom-collaborations/>&
Secondary
Schools <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/secon-classroom-collaborations/>*
In these challenges, elementary & secondary teachers from around the world
will discuss, design, and establish collaborations between their
classrooms.

*Certified Networked
Teacher*<https://www.p2pu.org/en/groups/certified-networked-teacher/>
The use of web tools in networked learning has become an important 21st
century skills for teachers.  The challenge ‘Certified Networked Teacher’
will give you the ability to envision a new future based on the use of web
tools in a networked learning scenario.  You will then be ready to take on
syndicated education in distributed learning environments as an ‘Advanced
Networked Teacher’.  On expert level you will be a central node in
networked learning and change how we understand education in the future.

*Collaborative Lesson Planning*
<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/collaborative-lesson-planning-2/>
In this remix of two 2010/2011 P2PU courses teachers walk through the first
steps of publishing their lesson plans online and collaborating  with
others on them! Its broken down into 4 easy tasks and by the end, teachers
will have published a lesson plan online and collaborated on a peer’s plan.

*Webmaking 101 Series*<http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/webmaking-101/>
Embark on a set of Challenges that will help you understand how basic  HTML
elements work, and guide you through using the tools to create your  first
webpage from scratch.
 <http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/hackasaurus/>

*Hackasaurus!*<http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/hackasaurus/>
Mozilla is developing curriculum, badges, and software to help people learn
webmaking skills through making. At the core of this initiative is  a
commitment towards supporting and encouraging others to reuse our learning
offering to teach web literacy within their communities. These Hackasaurus
Challenges are designed to support you in running events for  an initial
set of our learning content and tools.

*Programming with the Twitter API*<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/programming-101/>
This challenge will guide you through tasks that involve searching  for and
reading documentation online, executing an API call to a dynamic data
source, processing the results in a language of your  choice, and printing
them out to a terminal.

*Head over to P2PU.org <http://p2pu.org/en/groups/> to see the full list of
offerings from your peers. And while you’re at it, invite a friend! Here’s
some information for you to share with friends and family about P2PU:*

P2PU is a lab for the future of learning. Our community members design free
courses, use open learning materials and collaboratively build our open
platform. You can find a P2PU community member on every non-polar
continent, and visit the site in 5 languages. Our community is open and
volunteer driven. Involvement starts with participating in courses and
moves deeper into designing courses, working on site development and
framing governance choices for the organization.

*About Courses & Challenges
*

There are no limitations to the subjects that can be learned at P2PU.
You’ll find schools focused on the future of web development, mathematics,
social innovation, and education. You’ll find a multitude of courses and
challenges for subjects you didn’t even know you could master – like
city-wide game design, creative activism, open mapping and poetic thinking.
For learners, the P2PU experience is not like any other. Though
self-direction is needed, collaboration is key. Work is peer assessed and
credit is given in the form of badges – emblems of accomplishment that you
can carry across the web.  Badges are designed by the community and given
by peers. Courses are improved by the peers who take them, and can be
remixed and remastered by anyone.

*Why Join*

At P2PU we believe everyone has something to offer. Come learn from our
amazing community, and in turn let us learn from you! We are not just a
platform, we are a community driven to redefine and expand how we learn and
who we learn with.

Check out our newest offerings at
p2pu.org<http://p2pu.org/en/groups/?all_languages=on&featured=community>
.

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Alison
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