Hi Jody, This is awesome! This would be a great thing to post to the main page of the TOS site. Would you be willing to have this posted there? Or to send me an edited summary?
We would very much like to let the community know about current TOS-related activity. If anyone on the list has anything to share, drop me an email (el...@wne.edu<mailto:el...@wne.edu>) and I'll post in the News or other appropriate section. Thanks! Heidi On 01/27/2018 04:32 PM, Dr. Jody Paul wrote: Hi all! I thought this might be a good opportunity to share what's going on in my program this semester. I'm the instructor for 2 sections of Software Engineering Practices, a senior experience/project course aimed at graduating seniors in computer science. Software Engineering Practices primarily involves software development project work and generating associated artifacts for a professional portfolio. The prerequisite for this course is Software Engineering Principles, in which students have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in software engineering and to experience guided practice in team-based software development. This will be the first time that the projects are directed toward HFOSS project core contributions. (Some previous efforts have involved developing new plug-ins, but nothing that required close coupling with a FOSS project itself.) So far (the first two weeks): • In ad hoc teams of size 3 or 4, students engaged in the evaluation of HFOSS projects, based on http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Project_Evaluation_(Activity)<http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Project_Evaluation_%28Activity%29> -- Each team published an evaluation of a project. There were at least 2 evaluations for each candidate project. -- Post-activity reflections indicated that students believed the experience was extremely valuable, providing insight into open source and software project considerations. • In ad hoc teams of size 2 or 3, students experienced a standard workflow for contributing to a GitHub-hosted project, based on https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity -- No teams completed all steps of the activity in 90 minutes. Most would have benefited from ~20 minutes of additional time or a precursor activity. -- Post-activity reflections indicated that participants all felt activity was useful, including those who already had "significant familiarity" with GitHub. • Students have formed working teams for the rest of the semester. -- Each team is comprised of 4 or 5 students. -- There are 9 teams across the 2 sections. -- Each team has identified its project of interest, taking into consideration the evaluations, group dynamics, and personal preferences. Projects chosen by working teams include: Mediawiki Accessibility, Moodle, Mozilla Tools, OpenMRS, and SugarLabs. (The first three are specifically accessibility-focused.) I had been hoping for a smaller set, but decided against imposing that inter-team constraint. Fortunately, several projects were chosen by at least 2 of the teams. It's scary for me; but, students are engaged and excited! I am truly thankful for the POSSE experience and contributed materials!!! Regards, --Jody Dr. Jody Paul Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Metropolitan State University of Denver On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Heidi Ellis <heidi.el...@wne.edu<mailto:heidi.el...@wne.edu>> wrote: Hi Folks, Happy New Year! In order to gain a better understanding of what courses and/or extra-curricular activities are being used to help students learn about FOSS/HFOSS for the winter and spring terms, below is a link to a brief (2 minute) survey. We would greatly appreciate your participation. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org<mailto:tos@teachingopensource.org> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
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