Attendees (welcome to any newbies)
- Vanessa (@mozzadrella)
- Dirk
- Bekka
- Jane (@janedaily - i only update with snarky comments though)
- John
- Philipp
- Pieter
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Standups What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)
- Alison
- Bekka
- HR
- Taxes (death and...or death by?)
- Berlin berlin berlin
- John
- Offline until 3 June
- Putting together dev plans with Dirk today
- Making contacts with potential short term developers
- Lots of edu related stuff in NYC while I'm there
- Philipp
- HR hell(heaven)
- School of Data Hewlett proposal (sent off)
- Berlin accomodation wrangling
- New project -> Headless MOOC / The Mechanical Kurt
- Dirk
- Working on course creation
- Support for removing course administrators
- Support for marking new courses as tests
- avoid notifications and activity updates
- Ordered a Raspberrypi (not edible) today: cool! ooooooooh please tell us about it!!!
- Jane
- School of Open will be at Berlin, maybe part of Mozilla's Summer of Code
- School of Open prep for various conferences (Open Ed, Mozilla Festival? (possibly), OKFestival, and kick-off workshop w/Open Policy Institute (CC thing))
- School of Open challenges/courses ongoing progress will (hopefully) happen regardless, so please add your ideas for challenges here: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Open_Challenges
- Jane, we should talk: Molly starts working for Open.Michigan tomorrow and will be helping them figure out how to convert their dScribe training/process (http://open.umich.edu/dScribe) to SOO challenges. great Ok let's schedule a separate call!
- Will work to update http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open with above plus more detail
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- @jessykate
- will miss the call (on a flight!)
- great chat w june from UMD yesterday. really inspired me around what we can do and learn with our data, and just how unique and interesting it is.
- also some great ideas for structuring future metrics gathering on p2pu and CERN/p2pu study this summer.
- but, plane boarding now, so will fill y'all in later :p
- hi jessy - safe travels! look fwd to hearing more about the conversation with june.
- :D i'm a big fan of his (and yours of course) ;-) uh huh :p look fwd to brain dumping :). see you! bye bye!
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
- Exciting new courses to check out (Alison)
- Development priorities (Dirk)
- A few short term fixes - removing admins and other requests that have come through from the mailing list
- Course creation
- Cohorts -
- use cohorts to develop the first "core service" (using a modular architecture approach)
- first example: a cohort works through a challenge together (and could generalize to other things in future)
- further out: specify the different modules that make up the architecture, and define interfaces and how things fit together
- Vanessa -> what's the plan for being able to group people who want to be grouped together (someone arrives at P2PU with 15 friends)
- John -> challenge builders can manage this
- down the line, we can build apps which allow people to manage and build cohorts.
- The key point here is that if in future we decide to do something that looks different from "challenges" we can still use the group creation / management features we are building now (with the challenges use case)
- Working towards a modular platform
- P2PU.org provides core functionality (user accounts, friendship mangement, recognition etc) and there will be a boundary between this and the learning materials
- This won't seem like much to the end users, but in terms of the way people contribute and the way it looks, it will make a big difference
- State of the mustard (Philipp)
- 5% down overall (challenge of following a strong month like April) (i still haven't gotten my jar in the mail)
- but roughly level new user account creation (300-400 new users / week since end of January - there were 2 big spikes, one in April)
- No changes yet to the way we track metrics, they'll be like this for a little while.
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).
- Berlin Office Update [Bekka/Philipp]
- Office space -> Agora collective http://www.agoracollective.org/agora-space/
- Accommodation
- Organized an anchor flat for 3 people close to the office (may put another person into it)
- Will also use this as default spot for joint dinners (iron chef berlin -> niels)
- For everyone else, grouped them based on dates and asked them to self-organize
- We reimburse against receipts up to 40 USD / night
- Scratchpad for Ideas -> http://pad.p2pu.org/berlin-scratchpad
- Piet: What about us (who haven't received an email). Bekka -> Everyone should have an email later today.
- Tactics -> people willing to sleep in 2 person/same bed situations can find good spots
- 2 people own rooms might struggle
- 3 people with one on a couch/fold out will have no problems
- if you have trouble finding something, try looking for spots with one more person than you expect, and you'll be more likely to find good spots
- School of Open update [Jane] (very beta landing page: http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/) Another domain school like SoSI / Math/SoW etc
- There is no project manager right now. But there will be one. I (Jane) will be it. ;-) (Hooray!) YaY!
- School of Open will be at Berlin
- maybe part of Mozilla's Summer of Code
- Possible to have a School of Open event in Berlin along with Mozilla
- Piet and Molly will be working on this in Berlin, w/Chloe.. Michelle Thorne to attend
- School of Open prep for various conferences (Open Ed, Mozilla Festival? (possibly), OKFestival (Helsinki), and kick-off workshop w/Open Policy Institute (CC thing - TBA))
- School of Open challenges/courses ongoing progress will (hopefully) happen regardless, so please add your ideas for challenges here: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Open_Challenges
- Will work to update http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open with above plus more detail
- Question: Is there anything you need in terms of the platform, and if so, is there a timeframe for this so we can start planning
- More categories to separate content on landing page
- Design for badges will be a feature at some point, but not immediatly.
- Do you expect to use cohorts in these courses? (At least for the copyright courses I think there is - Delia is driving that) yes! sounds like a good idea, though first i've heard of it on this call (cohorts + challenges is a course) - ah i see. perfect!
- NEXT STEPS: Jane to work on a rough timeline on the pad
- Vanessa's (Turkish) Learning Delight -> Research Playground
- Mitch Resnick's All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten*
- head of the Lifelong Kindergarten, MIT Media Lab place where Vanessa is interning
- And he's convinced that kindergarten is awesome, but concerned that it's becoming more about preparation, which is not cool
- Kindergarten-style learning teaches kids to be creative thinkers
- It is also teaches them to be constructors - but where is the connect/lego/etc for teens/graduates/adults
- Great presentation where he talks about the history of kindergarten (and a bunch of other things, incl. scratch):
- Article http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12828081/CC2007-handout%20copy.pdf
- Has this been added to the Researchers's Homestead yet?
- Another article of his has--specifically about the Learning Spiral (but I will add it)
- I've had this article open in my browser for about 3 months - I'll read it now.
- Focus on the engagemnent of girls with technology
- Recommendations: P2PU should have inbuilt places for sharing work
- P2PU should be the starting point with all the tools but allow people to take their tools in a variety of different directions
- http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/89426 (and new Scratch 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-MOKts6t0&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
- Question:
- Can scratch be applied to learning (building) *anything*?
- Let me rephrase - is scratch a good way to learn French?
- Science Leadership acadmey is in a school in Philadelphia and the Scratch-based learning is being used for everything
- Even learning Spanish includes making a map
General discussion and questions
- Anything else that just needs to be said out loud