Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/Oct-25-2010

Oct 25, 2010 Meeting Agenda

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Agenda

• Call for agenda items

PROJECTS

• School of Webcraft: end of Fall semester (Pippa)
  • What did we learn? What happens next?
  • Participant Survey: What questions should we ask?
    
  • http://pad.p2pu.org/evaluationquestions
    

EVENTS

9 DAYS TO DRUMBEAT FESTIVAL!

• New content on the Festival blog
• Drumbeat Festival update (Mark / Nathan)
  • report on Science Fair

DRUMBEAT FACEBOOK APP

• Carlo Frinolli
  
  • Check it out here
  • Post feedback on community list thread here

IDEAS for NEXT WEEK'S MEETING

• Ideas for next week's discussion topic / guest presentation etc?
  • Alina & Paul have posted ideas in this community list thread
  • Nov 15: Invite Heather Leson from CrisisCommons & Andrew from MobileActive.org, author of "How Useful is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing"?

Notes

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"We're doing the right thing" lots of demand traditional education failing -- not teaching

employment situation

need lots of focus on basic skills entry level of what HTML is what CSS what is stp what is a server?

what sucked?

significant numbers of drop-outs didn't know what it meant to be a participant technology isn't up to scratch

strategies: stack overflow question and answer interface pushing video and live as way to meet up doesn't work so well get rid of tokbox trying to run live video chat between 10 - 20 people

technology with best response: google groups more open version of google groups and more specific to educators

technology really cool: etherpad is awesome

Atul Varma: developed HTLM pad

more demand for "changing a WordPress template vs. build an application"

common use cases for beginner-level demand

people wanting language so that they can speak to a web developer. finding it hard to articulate as client or co-worker what they want a web developer to do.

"how to talk to web developers"

making social contract part of process for signing up for class