[OSCTC-planning] framing our tutorials

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Pariksheet - your idea is a good one, but generally speaking we try not to
pre-load event organizers with things to do.  Communicating with students,
having them do an activity, and then organizing them based on that activity
is probably too much for the average organizer to handle.  A good approach
for special events, though!

If you clicked through my other post (<
http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/osctc-planning/2014-July/000090.html>)
you'll see that the finding a project activity is not yet integrated into
the morning tutorials.  If I have the time over the next few weeks, I'll
take a stab at figuring out what that would look like.


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Heidi Ellis <ellis at wne.edu> wrote:

>  Hi Folks,
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> I like the idea of partnering the learning of the communication tools with
> an actual project. I would plan to introduce the activities rather than
> just “encounter” them as this would highlight their importance. I do have
> some thoughts:
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> 1.       It might make sense when actually running the activity, to pick
> one or more projects to use as an example. I have found that folks can
> spend a lot of time looking through projects and so providing some
> direction there might be helpful. Another thought is to use projects
> provided by the mentors or have students suggest projects.
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> 2.       I might structure the IRC activity to use #openhatch rather than
> the project’s IRC channel because 1) folks in the project channel might not
> appreciate having their channel used for student learning; and 2) students
> might feel more intimidated by participating in a “real” channel.  What I
> do when teaching this is to use two channels. One is the project’s channel
> to show what is happening there and the second is a channel for students to
> talk amongst themselves.
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> 3.       I’d do the version control and issue tracker with the ”real”
> project.
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> Just my two cents. J
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> Heidi
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> *From:* osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org [mailto:
> osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org] *On Behalf Of *Shauna
> Gordon-McKeon
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:40 PM
> *To:* Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
> *Subject:* [OSCTC-planning] framing our tutorials
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> We've gotten a few comments that our morning tutorials, which cover IRC,
> issue trackers, reading issue reports, and using version control, are a bit
> abstract - they're not rooted in the process of contributing and therefore
> they're less interesting and harder to learn about for students.
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> A little while back we made the 'Finding a Project' activity:
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> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Finding_a_Project
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> What do folks think about framing the morning tutorials with this
> activity?  Students would start the day by finding projects, and they'd
> cover the different activities - IRC, issue trackers, version control - as
> they came up.
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> Alternatively, we could keep this where it is at the beginning of the
> contributions workshop, or remove it entirely.
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> ~ Shauna
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