[Campus-hartnell-staff] planning another Open Source Comes to Campus event for the fall

Tue Sep 9 00:02:35 UTC 2014

Hi Shauna,

I'm cc'ing Sathya Narayanan, faculty at CSUMB. He will be better able to
answer those sorts of questions :)

Best,
Katie

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We're happy to talk about it.  My guess is that it will be too much work
> for either Asheesh or myself to take on, but there may be someone else in
> the OpenHatch community interested in leading it -- and it is possible that
> we'll be able to make time for Asheesh or myself to work on it, too.
>  Relevant to that decision is the question: What would be the out of class
> responsibilities expected of an instructor?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Katie Cunningham <kcunningham at csumb.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shauna,
>>
>> No problem. The idea is that someone from OpenHatch leads the class.
>>
>> Thanks for discussing this new and different idea,
>>
>> Katie
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Katie,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay in responding - I was away for the weekend.  I'll
>>> talk about this more with Asheesh during our weekly meeting tomorrow, but I
>>> do have some questions.  Most importantly: are you asking whether someone
>>> from OpenHatch is interested in leading the class, or whether we can help
>>> you lead such a class?
>>>
>>> best
>>> Shauna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Katie Cunningham <kcunningham at csumb.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Shauna,
>>>>
>>>> OSCTC has been a topic of significant discussion recently.
>>>>
>>>> The major idea that has been discussed and which I want to present to
>>>> you is the incorporation of OSCTC into a one credit course taught at CSUMB.
>>>> A series of one credit courses involving hands-on technical topics is a new
>>>> initiative by Dr. Sathya Narayanan (CSUMB faculty). The idea is that
>>>> students meet for 2 full Saturdays (16 hours total) for face time with the
>>>> instructor and do homework or pre-class work of 25-30 hours outside of
>>>> class. The course instructor is paid a stipend. If this is something
>>>> OpenHatch is interested in, the spring semester could be a potential target
>>>> date.
>>>>
>>>> The advantages of this idea are that students are interacting with open
>>>> source in a more ongoing fashion, with results tied to an immediate result
>>>> (a grade). Of course, it may take more planning than a typical OSCTC
>>>> session. The first one of these courses is a one credit course about
>>>> Salesforce happening this semester. About 40 students are signed up,
>>>> including ~23 CSIT-In-3 students.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if this is something Openhatch is worth pursuing. Also let
>>>> me know if you have any questions or clarifications. I imagine that if
>>>> Openhatch is interested in the spring course, it probably makes sense to
>>>> scratch the fall OSCTC event to decrease workload.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Katie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just bumping this up - no rush, as we're still 2+ months out.  Did you
>>>>> meet with Prof Welch and, if so, any thoughts about how to proceed?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Katie Cunningham <
>>>>> kcunningham at csumb.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Great :) Prof. Joe Welch wants to discuss OSCTC next week, so after
>>>>>> that I'll have a better idea about the approach.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>> Katie
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That sounds great.  I'll put you down for the Saturday in November.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There's plenty of time to plan since you've picked the November
>>>>>>> date, so please don't feel rushed to respond.  Reply at your convenience.
>>>>>>>  :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Katie Cunningham <
>>>>>>> kcunningham at csumb.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for moving the thread over Shauna :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I forgot to mention in the earlier email that the November weekend
>>>>>>>> would work best for us, since it gives our freshmen more time to be exposed
>>>>>>>> to CS. Several students go to church on Sunday (a student just talked to me
>>>>>>>> about making an attendance app for Sunday School :), so Saturday is
>>>>>>>> preferred.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> More on the rest in a bit...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -Katie
>>>>>>>>
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