On 04/07/2011 01:08 PM, Jim Bowring wrote: > To that end, I direct you to the class wiki, from which you can reach > the class website, the student blogs, and the team wikis. This is a > first-time work-in-progress and I encourage input to myself and to my > students. I intend to build on this model for spring 2012 and beyond. > > http://csci462-2011.wikispaces.com/
Thanks for sharing your class with us, Jim - I hadn't heard about what you were doing before, but this is *wonderful*. The blog reflections your students have written are great - are they aggregated anywhere? I see you linked to the wikipedia page on Planet blog aggregators in the resources section for the 2nd class at http://stono.cs.cofc.edu/~bowring/classes/csci 462/2011 Spring/csci-462-spring-2011.html - but couldn't find an aggregator for the class itself, which might be an easier way of keeping up in the future rather than clicking through each blog post individually. Also, are their blog entries open-content licensed? I'm not sure if that's something that's desired, but it would make it much easier to remix their comments into publications, materials for other courses, etc. and give them proper attribution. I saw that some of your students were working on Sugar Activities, specifically Lemonade Stand and Fortune Hunter. Both of those were started by students at RIT, actually - they have a course devoted to Sugar Activity development, for which the syllabus is open-licensed here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/RIT/The_Course. Steve Jacobs and Dave Shein, the two professors who have taught the class, are on this mailing list and may have other comments. We also had a POSSE last summer in Worcester State which was Sugar-focused, for which Walter Bender was one of the instructors - so the alumni of that POSSE (Peter Froehlich, Karl Wurst, Nadimpalli Mahadev, Kristina Striegnitz, Jerry Breecher, Mihaela Sabin, Gary Pollice, and Aparna Mahadev) may have some thoughts as well. The Textbook project has basically fallen silent - I don't think we've actually heard much in the way of feedback from actual class usage of it before, so it was neat to see you actually using the book and exercises. What would you like to see done with the Textbook? You're not too far from Raleigh, where we have another POSSE going on this summer (July 23-24) - have you thought about applying? (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Apply) I think you'd like working with some of the other faculty attendees who we already know are coming - Karl and Kristina (and probably Mihaela) from the Sugar-focused POSSE will be coming (and your class sounds similar to Karl's), Andrea may be able to hook you up with RIT faculty and students who started the projects your class contributed to this term. >From what I heard from your comments at POSSCON, you're likely to bring a good perspective on what makes TOS a *difficult* community to participate in - it seemed like there was a feeling of "slipping through the cracks" in the past, for which I apologise - we need to be aware of what's going on in order to make it better, so these kinds of insights are quite helpful. (One thing you may have noticed is that TOS has evolved to become very centered around this mailing list - it's almost as if everything not sent to the list doesn't exist... but we don't document that super-publicly or well yet.) That's all the thoughts I had. Other comments? --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
