[OSCTC-planning] new curriculum page for event websites, and curriculum browser

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

The materials are really good! I like that you’ve included “extras” for folks who get done with the regular work early. I also like that there are self-guided versions.  Nice work!!

I went through most of the material, but not all. Found a few minor things:

1.       In the “Practice navigating from the command line” section for Windows and OS X, it would help to describe how to get the command line open. I know that a fair number of students may not know this.

2.       The Logos in the Self-Guided tour portion of “What is Open Source” are very large. Only two fit in the screen. I’m using Firefox 3.0.  The Logos were fine in the same slide in the regular slide deck.

3.       For some reason, the Newcomer Tasks is in really small font:
http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/setup/#/

Great job!
Heidi

From: osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org [mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org] On Behalf Of Shauna Gordon-McKeon
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:12 PM
To: Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
Subject: [OSCTC-planning] new curriculum page for event websites, and curriculum browser

I've been working to get more of our curriculum online, and part of that has been creating a couple of meta-tools for viewing that curriculum.

I would love to hear feedback on the aesthetics, usability, and content of these sites.  If you click through to specific activities -- which I encourage you to do! -- you may find some of them in an unpolished state.  But there's a rough draft of everything linked to.  And a self-guided version of all standard events. Yay!

Feedback can be given here, informally, or on the tracker, more formally -- whatever you prefer: https://github.com/openhatch/open-source-comes-to-campus/issues

Tool #1: Curriculum Pages for Event Websites

I've created a template that we can use at each event to help students view and follow along with the day's curriculum.  You can view a sample version here:

http://example-osctc-site.github.io/curriculum/

Tool #2:  Curriculum Browser

I've also created a tool that lets organizers sort through our available curriculum to see what we offer.  It's not clear how helpful it will be -- most events run the template curriculum, although repeating schools might be more interesting in switching things up.  That said, it was not much work to create this, so I did.  :)

http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/index.html

Note that by clicking the "View Only Activities "In Construction"" control, you can easily see what we need help with.

I was thinking of adding a category of activities which are, basically, activities/lessons designed by other groups that we'd be happy to have our mentors run if they feel up to it. But I'm not sure if that's in scope for this page.

~ Shauna
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