Example Courses to Highlight for APR 18

Announcement: 

Make smart friends. Learn with your peers at P2PU.

P2PU has a treasure chest of new courses and challenges that can't be missed!

Become a citizen scientist or a master content curator. Dust off that blog with advice from expert writers. Make an open music video or design a city-wide game for thousands of people to play.  Get your business out there with your new entrepreneurial marketing skills. Improve your teaching, expand your networks, design lesson plans with others. Get involved with Open Badges. Write your first novel... in public. Learn web design from the ground up. Share your brain power with the world and Make a P2PU challenge of your own. Become a superhero version of your self. 

This is only the tip of the iceberg. Drop by P2PU and sign up for something awesome today. 

COMMUNITY

• Entrepreneurial Marketing
• 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, which can be it a business, a non-profit, an event, a  hobby, a special project, or any pursuit that needs marketing. which is almost everything.
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• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/entrepreneurial-mktg-mission-and-vision/
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• Design Your First Big Game
• 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!
• https://p2pu.org/en/groups/keep-calm-and-start-playing/
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• 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.
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-for-the-web/
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• 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. 
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/curating-content/
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• How to Make a Screencast
• This hands-on course will teach you how to script a video tutorial,  professionally record your computer screen, add quality narration and  produce a polished Screencast that tutors, shows and sells any product  or process you care about.
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/how-to-make-screencasts/
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• Become a Citizen Scientist with BOINC
• This challenge will show you how to download, install and run the  software you need to enable you to join citizen science projects.
• https://p2pu.org/en/groups/learn-how-to-contribute-to-science/
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• Open Research / Indie Research
  • Researchers Homestead (links to the other challenges)
  • http://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-researchers-abode/
  • Start a Research Notebook
    • Join the ranks of the curious - from Newton to Darwin. In this challenge  you assert your right and intention to document and hone your curiosity  by starting a research notebook for your ideas. 
    • http://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-research-start-a-research-notebook/
  • Create a Reading List: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-research-create-a-reading-list/content/assemble/
  • Reading Research Literature: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/reading-research-literature/content/read-and-annotate-a-paper/

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• Hack the P2PU Code
• This challenge will show you how to install and modify Lernanta, the software responsible for everything you see at http://p2pu.org.
• https://p2pu.org/en/groups/introduction-to-contributing-to-lernata/
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• Open Badges 101
• Perhaps you've heard about Open Badges, but you're not sure where to turn to find out more. The Open Badges 101 Challange gives you a basic introduction to the topic and advice on how to get connected to the open badges community. 
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-world-of-open-badges/ 
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• Collaborative Lesson Planning (CLP)
• 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!!
• https://p2pu.org/en/groups/collaborative-lesson-planning-2/
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• Cf.
• Fall 2010 P2PU Collaborative Lesson Planning (CLP) Course http://archive.p2pu.org/general/collaborative-lesson-planning
• Spring 2011 P2PU CLP Course http://archive.p2pu.org/general/collaborative-lesson-planning-0
• Ongoing CLP Study Group https://p2pu.org/en/groups/collaborative-lesson-planning/

SCHOOLS

• School of Ed
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• Global Classrooms Collaborations
• In these challenges, elementary & secondary teachers from around the world will discuss, design, and establish collaborations between their classrooms.
• Elementary Schools: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/elem-classroom-collaborations/
• Secondary Schools: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/secon-classroom-collaborations/
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• 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.
• https://www.p2pu.org/en/groups/certified-networked-teacher/
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• Webcraft
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• Webmaking 101 Series
• 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/webmaking-101/
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• 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.
• http://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/sets/hackasaurus/
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• Programming with the Twitter API
• 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.
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/programming-101/
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• School of Open (Pilot)
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• Viva la Open Music Video
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• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/music-video/
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