> way the team is prepped and maybe one or more "ambassdors" within the > team who speak standard English and willing to serve as point people > to handle tne basic noob questions and route questions that need > expertise to the experts in the teams could go a long way to > scaffolding the students and the profs.
Personally, one of the things I found *most* useful in working with Matt's class at Allegheny in the past month was that Matt and Darren were able to handle the basic newbie questions themselves, in the classroom (very basic stuff like wiki/IRC usage, VM setup, etc). These are the sorts of questions that all professors should be able to answer after they've been through POSSE, in terms of general "how to participate in FOSS" skills. That way, community members not from the school will be able to spend their time answering newbie questions specific to the project. Matt also made *the* most gorgeous VM setup screencast ever - how to build good scaffolding for novices is something open source communities will need to learn more, if we hope to scale and be able to bring more classes in. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
