5 April 2012
DIAL IN
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Attendees (welcome to any newbies)
- Vanessa (wave!)
- Philipp
- John
- Bekka
- Dirk
- Alan
- Zuzel
- Chloe (on etherpad only)
Standups
What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)
- Alison
- Bekka
- Hewlett Interim report
- Budget updates
- Berlin planning
- General admin
- John
- School of Data Website
- Terms Discussion
- Summer intern references
- Getting small projects ready for dev to fill space between bigger community projects
- Philipp
- Hewlett Interim Report (Year 1)
- P2PU strategy scenarios for board meeting
- Connected learning seminar with Howard Rheingold / Mimi Ito
- College Unbound call and planned visit (http://collegeunbound.org/)
- Zuzel
- Recovered http://pad.p2pu.org/community with the notes from august 18th to december 8th (2011) -woohoo! Thanks, Zuzel! Applaus!
- Crunching numbers for Hewlett interim report
- Sent pull request for our friends in the openbadges project
- Dirk
- Getting to know the lernanta codebase
- Exploring the functionality of lernanta (p2pu site)
- created some test data
- looking at how badges work and how we can enable multiple submit badges
- Started with a few courses
- Submitted my first code contribution (not very big :) -- it is merged! Yay!
- Almost finished with all onboarding tasks
- Alan
- Berlin Apps for SoSI folks in
- Finalizing Laura's contract with Echoing Green / Ashoka to work on the "guidebooks" project
- Cross-university minor proposal drafting for Sullivan Foundation
- Drafting sponsor docs for Hub social innovation peer-learning group program
- Add your name (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
- Welcome Dirk!
- He's calling in from Durban, which is awesome (mango trees, papaya trees, sharks...) no sharks in Durban (oh yes!)
- We're delighted to have him joining us
- Thanks!
- Exciting new courses to check out (Alison)
- Away (will cover under state of the mustard)
- Philipp -> recommended that everyone check out College Unbound (http://collegeunbound.org/) - a project to help give college credits / interested in figuring out ways to use P2PU for their students and give credits for participation in P2PU courses. Initial content focus probably (a) writing, (b) problem solving, (c) early childhood development.
- Development priorities (Zuzel)
- Weekend release:
- OBI integration update (disabled, penindg release at beta.openbadges.org there are currently in staging phase)
- Bagdes can be marked to be available in all challenges
- Log people in after successful sign up (non-mandatory email confirmation by following link)
- https setup with forced redirect to https on some pages (e.g., login, register)
- Loading time improvements: moving more notifications logic into the celery task (and the broccoli?) - http://celeryproject.org/
- Upgrading to django 1.4 if time permits (could be enabling timezone support)
- Next:
- Improvements to creation of challenges
- Dirk working on:
- https://trello.com/card/allow-multiple-reviews-for-cumulative-badges/4ed8ff4175e6467872117dcc/31
- will add some cards based on john's input soon (stuff like Sign-up, encouraging profile completion (profile creation... what is currently the dashboard), Sign up for a new account and you'll see what I mean, Small profile enhancements, URL Design)
- Trying to convert Intro to Learnanta study group into a challenge so it's easier for new volunteers to participate - Zuzel working on screencasts
- State of the mustard (Philipp)
- March:
- April -> Only 5 days into the month / projections slightly below last month (in italics because too early to be reliable)
- Since we haven't completed a full week should be taken with a grain of salt
- 1 course with > 10 comments / day: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-virtual-worlds-games-and-education-tour/
- Bekka -> Is this an example of how P2PU can scale? We may not know all the people who get involved and actively growing the community. Could be an example for the next phase of P2PU.
- Vanessa -> they introduce a lot of new tools and seem to do so without a lot of friction - this is worth taking a look at, to see how they do it without losing people.
- Next step: Philipp will ask Ali to invite someone from that group to a community call
- New courses (26/3 - 1/4)
- 21 test or "i want to learn"
- 15 under development
- 0 went from new course to live within one week (probably not realistic to expect)
- Many "I want to learn" courses, e.g.
- Traffic nuggets
- > 10% visits from India (2nd spot after US)
- Might coincide with the start of the Google Ad words campaign?
- I've been getting *a lot* of bots in Writing for Web (possibly also Google Ad words campaign-related)
- In March 11% of visits came from India (8% paid / google adwords)
- 6% visits from users with spanish browsers (from many different countries)
- 1% visits from china
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).
- Story time [John]
- Weve had an ongoing problem at P2PU where we don't know what to call things. We're trying to figure out what words to use consistently across the site
- Started by brainstorming some terms, some are standard, others less so
- People added their thoughts and versions, and +1s (want to prompt lingering in the "problem space" :)
- But it's important that we don't think about terms in isolation, but rather think about them in terms of each other.
- Vanessa suggested "Think, pair, share" methodology (link?) http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/think/
- Idea is to get people to think of a narrative about a new user to P2PU and what their experience is
- Excellent idea - really like it! +1 (hard to make happen, but if we all model it, i think it can get traction)
- Philipp is partnering with Nadeem tomorrow
- VMG meeting with Jessy today
- John called out Alan, but he hasn't responded yet (Is Alan on this call?) (I was but I lost the internet in this coffee shop, I'm sorry guys!)
- Bekka will do this as soon as she gets the spreadsheets out of the way
- VMG: Brainstorming has challenges / limitations as a mechanism to generate new / good ideas. This is a different approach.
- Red/Yellow/Green methodology is also useful as a way of gauging people's responses, possibly more than the current back & forth on single thread
- Community call [Philipp]
- Topics people would like to discuss in future community calls (not a brainstorm)
- P2PU - The Lab (next week/Philipp)--*can't wait* to hear more about this
- Terms (report back from story time/John)
- Someone from Virtual Worlds course talks about their experience
- Maybe add another community input topic from one of the cards in the project pipeline that could be coming into the community input stage?
- Weekly research finding: presenting a recent paper of interest to the group--ie project-based learning, data visualization and learner engagement, etc (VMG can do this) - fantastic! bonus points and star (but carefully introduced not to interfere with your motivation) L. O. L. --noted
- Take the "articles I have read" update and turn it into a quick verbal discussion - I hardly ever follow those links, but if someone talks about something, I'm more likely to engage with it (someone still has time to read?) - Some of us do it and call it work....
- Group design critique? Like the "good ideas" document Ali had--we look at other learning environments and discuss their merits/drawbacks--or even not from the realm of e-learning. How does Mailchimp prompt users to complete tasks? Airbnb?
- Next steps:
- Philipp + Bekka to duke it out / Chief community call wrangler to move this forward ;-)
General discussion and questions
- Anything else that just needs to be said out loud