COMMUNITY CALL 16 AUGUST 2012
Attendees (welcome to any newbies)
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- Vanessa (will call in)
- Dirk
- jessy
- Paul Allison @paulallison
- Bekka
Standups What have you been up to? Short written notes (we'll discuss only if there are questions)
- Bekka
- Finance handover to Ryan (our new finance guy)
- Discussions with Vanessa about planning and
- Vanessa
- Finalizing the assessment plan
- DML research competition stuff
- Course creation interviews and user tests--still in process!
- Testing the new home page mockups--take it and share!
- Helping School of Open with assessment and skills mapping.
- Jane
- Chris
- Philipp
- Dirk
- Platform direction - see blog/mailing list
- Project pipeline
- Learn page
- Some stats :)
- jessy
- finally documenting webfest, berlin discussions and work
- eating messy ice cream (and pondering improved metability properties - ie, reduced)
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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 (Bekka)
- Development priorities (Dirk)
- Busy with
- Learn page - course discovery
- CSS framework
- Core platform, simplify and polish what we have
- Learn page
- Merging of courses-->course creation research will be presented at next call :)
- Translation
- State of the mustard (Philipp) / Other stats from P2PU staffers
- VerifyApp Stats: http://cl.ly/IlvU
- Test A: 896 views/88 responses
- Test B: 488 views/60 responses
- Total users: 37399
- Confirmed email address: 33760
- Deleted users: 541
- Active this month: 915
- Last activity during August: 1734
- Last activity during July: 1553
- Last activity during June: 1258
- Total number of comments: 20927
- Number of users that made a comment: 2473
- during August: 177
- during July: 344
- during June: 295
- during May: 271
- during April: 277
- Top number of comments by a single user:
- 1st - 952 , 2nd - 596 , 3rd - 587 , 4th - 539 , 5th - 261 , 6th - 173 , 7th - 162 , 8th - 160 , 9th - 155 , 10th - 152
- Total number of courses: 1642
- Total number of draft courses: 1313
- Number of users that are organizers: 1608
- Number of users that created more than 1 course: 223
- Number of users that created only 1 course: 1385
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).
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General discussion and questions
- Paul Allison has joined us - yay!
- The iterative process of building courses and badges is almost like a publishing effort - is there any way I can control the badges?
- eg: I wanted to change the terminology I use on a badge - and wondering how easy that is?
- Or if I have a badge that has a rubric and want to use a boilerplate rubric that will be negotiated with other teachers/peers
- Dirk -> Currently, you'll have to ask P2PU to help do this via the helpdesk
- Dirk -> technically, that's not a huge problem.
- Updating terminology/graphic should be easy, but if it's already been pushed to the digital backpack it might raise some more problems.
- Paul -> I realise that this is both a pedagogical issue and a technical issue if we want to keep negotiating the robrics
- Dirk -> one solution might be to have an "alpha" and a "beta" badges, so people know that alpha badges are works in progress
- Paul -> Vanessa and I had discussed the possibility of setting up a school but I'm not sure what the implications of this might be