Challenge Party: Badge Edition | Feb 23
NOTE: We're going to start the meeting on the meeting etherpad, here:http://pad.p2pu.org/community-20120223 and then revert to this pad for the Challenge Party, so please use both!
Attendees
John
Brylie
Carla (v. limited participation)
Dirk
Philipp
Vanessa
Zuzel
Introductions [5 min]
- Chloe breaking it down for us ...
- What is a Challenge Party?
- It's our way of bringing people together to work on challenges and the other aspects of challenge creation
- What did we do last time?
- What will we be doing today?
- We're going to create badges for skills wich are associated with the deliverables of the tasks in the challenge.
- Badges? What does that mean...
- We're working on a feature that will allow all challenge creators to add badges to their challenge.
- Today, we'll take challenges that are already existing on p2pu.org, and think about the right kind of badges to associate with them
What type of badges will we be adding to our Challenges today? badges that are meant to recognize skills and should be linked to the deliverables of a task. They are awarded by mentors and peers based on a rubric evaluation in a 1-4 scale as well as an endorsement. Look at this example http://p2pu.org/en/badges/super-blogger/
and this example http://p2pu.org/en/badges/html-basic/
We may also design "rubriks" - rubriks are sets of evaluation criteria (with different quality levels, e.g. a scale 1-4)
Questions? <add here your question>
Take the Dance Floor [30 mins]
Copy paste and fill in the sections in pink below with information about your Challenge.
Pitch it in 3 minutes; explain what is the Challenge about, what skills do learners gain, what are they making to prove they have mastered these skills and most importantly what badges can they apply for.
After each pitch, there is a quick round of feedback <keep notes below, under each challenge description>
Possible Guiding Questions;
What does this badge tell us about a peer?
How are the badges suggested representative of the audience?
Would you apply for it?
Is the evidence requested adequate?
Are there any other badges you would like to suggest to your peers?
If you don't have a challenge to share already:
Check out other peoples Challenges and leave feedback
Make up a Challenge on the spot
Vote for your favorite badge from the entries below!
Challenge: <title of your challenge>
Creator: <your name>
Description <what is your Challenge about? >
Link <add a link to your Challenge on p2pu.org if you have one>
Skills < add a list of skills that learners are gaining in your challenge > Tip: Think of skills in a 21st century way and connect them to both mastery of a specific piece of content, but also add skills such as "critical thinking", "filtering information", “working in a team”, “problem solving” and “design thinking.”
Assessment < what are your learners MAKING that proves that they have mastered the above skills?>
Badges:
Title <blow us away with an awesome title, you might even win a surprise>
Description < keep this short&sweet>
Requirements < how many peers should be required to give a positive endorsement of this badge in order for someone to receive it? 3, 2, or 1?>
Rubric < write a question that a reviewer could answer by rating someone on a scale of 1 to 4, i.e. how good are your peers disco moves?>
Challenge: DIY U: Build a personal learning plan
Creator: Alison
Description Build a personal learning plan. Make your dream come true.
Link http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/
Skills Networking in 2.0, design thinking, self-directed learning (accomplishing tasks), innovating the 'career path'
Assessment Participants make a personal learning plan and show their work from it. "work" means the user displays something they've made, or status they've acquired becuase of the goals setin thei plan.
Badges:
Title
Lesson Planner / Processor / Factory Badge Badge
Carrot & Stick Badge (Carrot cake and Chocolate stick? +1)
Lesson Baker +1
Networker (for networking in 2.0) geared towards social media +1
Network Weaver +1
Carreer Path Innovator
Dreamer (this is clever ...i thought)
Realist - for the person who describes their current skills best
Challenge:Learn how to contribute to science / Become a Citizen Scientist
Creator: Bekka
Description Be a part of scientific projects from all over the world
Link: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/learn-how-to-contribute-to-science/
Skills: Understanding the concept of citizen science, making contributions to citizen science (beyond just being a passive server space supplier)
Assessment Participants explain why they choose projects
Badges:
galactic scientist badge!
Einstein Badge!
Boinc! Boinc! Badge
Particle Smasher badge+1+1 +1 +1 +1+1
commited data time in Boinc
love this name I want one!
Title <blow us away with an awesome title, you might even win a surprise>
Description You've smashed the particle barrier (haha!), and have devoted "x" amount of peer-reviewd time to science projects on BOINC
Requirements: Once users have started contributing & posted a response to this task, and used Boincstats.com to show much time they have contributed, 3 peers should review them.
Rubric: How well has this person understood the project that they have chosen to volunteer with, and have they met the time requirement?
Feedback: -Complete newcomers to citizen science might be unclear as to what it is. I guess this goes to the context question. Maybe link to the projects you refer to in the first task?
-What kind of data do folks usually contribute? I think this could inform the badge name.
Challenge: Writing for the Web
Creator: Audrey Watters & Vanessa Gennarelli
Description Writing for the Web is a different set of skills
Link to googledoc (draft) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWgCh05DT08O8VQbJScms0jGqPKR-al9TVX-K5j9bmM/edit?disco=AAAAAEfB11E
Skills Engaging others, reforming opinions, finding web voice, learning nettiquette
TASK: Find your web voice.
Problem. You have to start somewhere--select a blogging platform!
Problem. List things you either a.) care about or b.) want to learn more about. Perfect subject for a blog!
Reflection:
TASK: Web writing is a different animal.
Problem: Find a report or study on Google Scholar and summarize it for a blog post. Post your link to your summary here.
Reflection: What’s different about your summary versus the original article? Consider length. Tone. How does the post appear, visually, that is different from the article?
Reflection: If you were peer reviewing the article what would you criticize about it? How does that differ from your blog summary?
TASK: Medium. Message./Choose your weapon.
Problem. Find a blog post you disagree with. Decide how to respond--will it be with a comment? A blog post of your own? Go ahead and do so.
Reflection: How does your response differ from other ways to communicate (email, or text). What made you decide to choose the way you did?
TASK: We’re all connected. (Linking)
Example: there are several ways to use links in a blog post. Sometimes a link is all you need to make your point.
PROBLEM: Draft one version of a post, and then go back and revise it to include several links to the information you reference.
REFLECTION: How are the versions different? What do you say that’s obvious, and what do you let the link say for you?
REFLECTION: What message does linking send? To the person you’ve linked from? To your reader?
TASK: Point of View.
Problem. Select a recent favorite blog post. How would you articulate it’s point of view? How does it differ from your own? Write a response from your point of view.
Reflection:
TASK: Engage your audience--2
Problem: You’ve changed your mind in light of what someone has posted to your blog. How do you address it?
Assessment
Badges: Need help with this--have a few ideas, but would love community help
WWWriter ooooooo!+1+1
Reformer-ator
Blog-sphere Navigator
Com-mentor+1
http://p2pu.org/en/badges/super-blogger/ - mozilla's, will there be confusion if we add other blogger badges? i think we should have a P2PU super blogger badge (we probably don't need a mozilla super bl
I also like the animal theme, i.e. Singing Bird = find your voice task
Song: ..."Eye of the Tiger"--fired up to learn (thanks P).
Feedback notes:
think about making things interesting (is GoogleScholar interesting?)
Assessment: how to hold someone's attention (on the web, attention spans are fleeting)
Aggregate/gather how p2puers engage conflict
Too many deliverables--need to refine tasks
Challenge: Make digital music! Build your first synthesizer with Pure Data
Creator John
Description Making digital music with PureData, a visual signal processing environment
Link ...
Skills remixing, abstraction, composition (using multiple components), signals
Badges:
Title Remixer
Description You reused another user's original component
Requirements Include a link to the original patches that you used
Rubric < write a question that a reviewer could answer by rating someone on a scale of 1 to 4, i.e. how good are your peers disco moves?>
Title Component Builder[I love this]
Description You created a self contained patch that is useful to others
Requirements
Author applies for the badge with one (or more) samples of re-use by another user.
Author uploads the original component to the PD community
Rubric Does the author demonstrate re-use of his/her original component
Title Producer Noisemaster !! Modular Synthesist
Description You brought the Rukus! Turn it up to eleven. It might not be music, but you made some noise
Requirements
Apply for the badge with an audio clip upload and patch upload
Rubric Does the uploaded patch make the noise?
Title: Mathematician (how about Mathemusician +1)
Description: math wiz using the theory and maths of music to create harmonies
Requirements: generating something slightly tolerable (hahahah, tolerable - you're laughing now, you won't be laughing when you run that course!)
Rubric: Points for mathematical correctness.
Title: Alchemist +1
Description: person who can make music out of real world data
Requirements: program that can download data and output music
Feedback Notes
Lean towards interesting names... I need help with that!
Maybe eliminate the number of badge
can you automate checking people's work
possible, not very easy though
Challenge: Open Governance - Learn to Act like a Baboon
Creator: Philipp
Description: Communities have values and norms. In order grow stronger while growing bigger, there needs to be a mechanism for transfering these norms to new community members. Examples are community agreements (Debian has this), implicit norms that are enforced by the community, or explicit value pages etc.
Link: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-governance-learn-to-act-like-a-baboon/
Skills:
Empathy - understand the motivations of other contributors to an open community project
Ability to identify governance structures of open collaborative communities
Assessments:
A community agreement for a community that you are a member of
Make a fake West Wing video
Badges:
Title: Apprentice Governor
Requirements: Work created in the course was applied to a real world use case
Rubrik:
How well did the community contract include good practices from other contracts?
How concise?
How compelling?
How clear?
Assessment: Badge awarded based on peer review
Videographer (or Leo McGary/ Toby Ziegler badge)
Requirements: Post your fake West Wing video
Rubrik:
Does the video highlight an interesting leadership challenge?
How well does the character solve the challenge?
How well does the character mimic an existing West Wing character? -- It is good that there are more than one criteria in the rubric which will probably help reviewers to have a more clear idea of what to look for in the submissions
Feedback:
People may be uncomfortable doing this (camera shy, humble)--Maybe they animate the scene instead?
Cultural barrier(s)
Can you use Lego?
Don't think this needs to apply to everyone, this is a good thing
Nit-Picker (and eater) (folks will line up for this one) +1+1
Baboons accept new members of a group by grooming (and eating what they find!)
Have you "groomed" a new member? (maybe a little creepy?) WAY CREEPY
Assessment: Awarded based on feedback from peers (how well did you get groomed?)
Song: Kumbaya (the 1980 Joan Baez version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MiD_U4CHQ
Feedback:
Like that skills badge included
Alison: Not sure the camera / video badge works for everyone (some people are camera shy)
John: It would be good to have a collection of impersonation challenges
Having context / narrative is a good tool to attach meaning to a challenge and make them more fun.
Collections are fun to look at and people will want to contribute their own (encourages peer to peer interaction)
After hours chill-out [10 min]
General feedback (type your feedback here)
Badge Award & Ceremony
Ali won this badge -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/6777094466/in/photostream
Prize: Chloe will help with illustration of Ali's badge (which is Bekka's challenge's badge)
What's next?
Challenge Creators contact Chloe > send full versions of their Challenges and Badge fields as described above+ badge image 150 by 150 pix.
Should these be in SVG format?
SVG would 'future proof' the badge creation process.
Inkscape is a libre SVG design studio. http://inkscape.org/
In the meantime -> use this to collaborate > http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/ (join if you haven't already)
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Challenge Creation Kick off Party Feb 9
Introductions [5 min]
Chloe breaking it down for us ...
What is a Challenge Creation Kick off Party?
What is a Challenge?
What is this? http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/
Questions?
Party Playlist [5 min each]
Add your name + your challenge idea + your song (bonus if you have a link to one you are currently working)
If you don't have a challenge to share already:
Help put together the soundtrack (vote for your favorite songs)
Make one up on the spot
Challenge: <title of your challenge>
Creator: <your name>
Idea: <what's the idea here? give us your pitch! add a link if you have one>
Song: <the soundtrack>
Challenge: TBD
Creator: Laura
Idea: https://mozlearning.etherpad.mozilla.org/hackasaurus-p2pu-challenge
Song: Hail to the Chief!
Feedback notes:
Gunner: make participants feel like they are in control of what they learn
Bekka: use politics narrative as a context, primary race, earn different stages of political campaigning
Challenge: DIY U: Build a Personal Learning Plan http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/
Creator: ALISON
Idea: Build a plan to get more value (and possibly a credential) from your personal learning.
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mb102V1F0 ("I believe I can fly")
Feedback Notes:
Add maybe some introduction task, where everyone says who they are and what they are going to be teaching
Challenge: First Steps with QuickBooks
Creator: Bekka Kahn
Idea: Non-profit people are not always money people, but basic bookkeeping is essential for any org, no matter how big or small. The challenge is to learn the basics of QuickBooks for non-profits. This is for people who find themselves in this position, and need to learn skills, and skilled people willing to share their knowledge.
First draft: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/bookkeeping-and-basic-accounting-for-non-profits/ (switched from study group)
Song: Money! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j3xITvYQY> great choice ;) thanks!
Questions: Is this appropriate for a challenge?
Should it be broken into smaller, individual tasks?
Is the fact that it is based on one software package a problem?
Feedback Notes:
http://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query=finance
Phil - Not losing track of stuff can be like a game. Topic is definitely appropriate for a challenge.
Will you learn the basics of GAAP? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_accepted_accounting_principles
I suppose so - it's the basic stuff
I met with these people http://www.gogirlfinance.com/ they are making a game for money literacy, they might be interested to work with you on financially literacy challenges for women...
Have different people suggest different solutions/platforms as the "making" part of your challenge, have them share other platform
Challenge: Open Governance - Learn to Act like a Baboon
Creator: Philipp
Idea: Communities have values and norms. In order grow stronger while growing bigger, there needs to be a mechanism for transfering these norms to new community members. Examples are community agreements (Debian has this), implicit norms that are enforced by the community, or explicit value pages etc.
Learning Goals:
Empathy - understand the motivations of other contributors to an open community project
Identify governance structures of open collaborative communities
Articulate a community-contract
Ability to make a small video (bonus)
Badges:
Apprentice Governor
Work created in the course was applied to a real world use case
Badge awarded based on peer review
Videographer
Awarded based on feedback from peers
Old notes:
What will you learn: How to identify and evaluate different mechanisms for norms transfer in communities
What you will do:
Learn about norms transfer in baboon communities
Review existing examples and check out interview with Mako (who wrote the Debian one)
Find more examples for norms transfer
What do you make? A community agreement for a community that you are a member of
Embarassingly early draft -> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-governance-learn-to-act-like-a-baboon/
Song: Kumbaya (the 1980 Joan Baez version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MiD_U4CHQ
Questions / Need help:
Is the "make" part interesting enough? What about something crazy - like making a mock up video of a news show in an imaginary state ...
Need more tasks to get people through this
Feedback Notes:
Chloe: Like the mockumentary idea - representing the community in some way. Could use storify or popcorn to make the videos. If you do video, provide guidelines. Video should have introduction. Some kind of story. Make a storyboard. Find your community heroes. Protagonists for your story. What do they do?
Philipp: Maybe a video that tells the story of a community faced with a challenge.
Bekka: Don't worry about wanting people to make similar things.
Alan: Have thought about branding / marketing. Create something and ask yourself ... if this thing we are creating was a car ... a food ... a shirt... what would it be? Example: Car -> cadillac - it's comfortable and slow and big ...
Challenge: Make digital music! Build your first synthesizer with Pure Data
Creator: John
Idea: Brief introduction to PureData and it's primitives
What is a DAC
What is an oscillator
Left and right channels
It's drag and drop
Input - Integer
Connect the dots
Kick it of with a "bang"
Share your synth, try one from your peers
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKDE56Cdv4
Feedback Notes
What about asking people to submit songs/synths as collaborations? Or whole orchestras?
share favorite songs, instruments, styles - inspirations
Is there already a community space / site where people share these synths? -yes, but it's really not great... but should introduce that directory - and get people to post their stuff to the site
make the title more musical
Add some introductory tasks
Challenge: Explore your Empathy
Creator: Alan (on behalf of Laura White)
Idea: exercises you can do to improve your empathy
Shell so far, no work done yet: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/explore-your-empathy/
http://empathy.ashoka.org/series-101
Example tasks
What does it feel like to be invisible?
Complete the Homeless Challenge Project with National Coalition for the Homeless, where economically-privileged people dress down, empty their wallets and spend 48 hours homeless on the streets of Washington, D.C. (wow! that's a pretty high bar)
Complete the Anti-Racism Training through SOAR
Q: shopping cart approach versus linear task list?
Song: How could you be so heartless? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP11SIQhUGw
Feedback Notes
Phil - Important to work together for this challenge, enforce collaboration
Chloe - Follow-up challenges - come up with some kind of solution
"Mentors" could be homeless?
Start with personal interests and then follow with more solution focused challengs
Also, what are they making? This has a lot of media potential, i.e. website, blog, mobile phone app etc, video
Challenge: Programming with APIs
Creator: Jessy with Chloe
Idea apply core programming constructs to a dynamic data source
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/programming-101/
Song
Feedback Notes
Favorite task name "Patience, Young Padawan"
Question -> Is there some way to connect API calls, so that participants would build on each others' work?
jessy loves this idea
philipp suggests "exquisite corpse" API :)
Take the Dance Floor [up to 30 min]
Pitch us your Challenge in 2-3 minutes; explain what is the problem you are asking your peers to solve, what skills will they get out of solving it, what is the context for doing so and what will they be making at the end.
After each pitch, there is a quick round of feedback
Should we keep notes above right under each challenge description? Yes!
Possible Guiding Questions;
What is the big idea?
What is the problem you are asking your learners to solve?
What is the context?
What is the goal?
What are your learners making at the end?
Does it sound fun?
After hours chill-out [10 min]
Question 1 - What are Challenges that the model works really well for? What does it not work for?
Philipp: Not from the examples we saw - but I don't think it's great for rote / fact learning
Jessy: In fact, challenges could work well for rote learning - but rote learning is not a great way to learn
Bekka: Agree with Jessy. Challenges may not work so well in learning that requires a huge amount of solo reading. May not work so well for learning that is discussion based / exploratory.
Philipp: Requires a switch in your head to apply to some content
Question 2 - How can the challenges model/UX be improved? What's missing?
Question 3 - How do we promote challenges?
What's the right "length" of a challenge?
Chloe: Generally - one challenge is better than multiple (you loose users between challenges)
rule of thumb A good number is maximum of about 10 tasks (a 10 steps to do sthg)
General feedback (feel free to type more feedback here)
Party format:
Super useful if people prepare (both to post and to review challenge ideas)
Challenges:
Introductions are useful as a general building block in challenges
What's next?
Do another session in a few weeks
Give people time to complete their challenge drafts
Focus of next session: Adding badges into your challenge
Plan the next party, how, when?
2 weeks from this date
In the meantime -> use this to collaborate > http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/ (join if you haven't already)
Reminder for Philipp:
Clean up after the party -> Copy all of this into the old server