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A group in the Office of Assessment and Innovation at Washington State University has been experimenting with an idea we called "Harvesting Gradebook" and how it could be use by classes to get feedback from authentic communities.

We've expanded the idea to "Peer Review the Web" a means for learners to solicit feedback on any webpage. We made a couple mockups for a competition (one uses Google Sidewiki), and are offering this course to co-learn about creating extensions and in particular our application.

This course will be structured as a collaborative exploration. How do you learn best? How do you get feedback to advance your learning? Understanding these questions can help you in your learning, it can also help you critique the application we are exploring -- and will be the basis for our learning strategy together.

Key thinker: John Seely Brown. Key reading (give you a flavor of our thinking and who we read) Beyond the University

Are you a Web developper, a Business man, a Designer, a Project Manager and are currently working on an Online Community? Are you building/thinking people's interactions, understanding what to do when users are misbehaving and need advice and guidelines?

This course is for you. It will help you adopt some basic design thinking to help you understand the structure of a community, the basic interactions between people, and the dynamic and tips for how to increase length of stay and other activities that could help sustain the community.

We will cover the basic understanding of communities using metaphors with the real world and offline communities. Draw some conclusions, prepare a set of questions to ask ourselves before building an online community. Setting people's goals, rewards and motivation. Setting business goals clearly. Setting branding goals. 

You will walk out of this course with a guide you will have built yourself that will help you doing a great job.

This course offers web developers an opportunity to improve their knowledge of web development in Django and JavaScript, by participating in a non-profit, free and open source project that's creating a space for collaboratively subtitling the world's videos: Universal Subtitles. 

Participants will be stepping into the middle of a development process with a 6 person team that's building: 1) a Django community site for collaboratively subtitling video and 2) a javascript widget for adding subtitles and translations to videos, based on Google Closure.   

You will work with us to choose tickets that offer the right level of challenge and/or require knowledge you'd like to acquire.  We can offer you pointers as you take on these tickets (e.g. links to resources, keywords to google, or an outline of how we'd approach the problem) and you can accompany your commits through our QA process and release to the production site.

The successful work you do in this course will benefit a non-profit free software project working to break down language barriers and make the internet more open and accessible.  The universalsubtitles.org site is already home to hundreds of translations and thousands of submitted videos seeking translation, it's maintained by the non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, and all code is available under an AGPL free software license.

Course meeting will take place asynchronously on a google group, to be created when we have a group of successful applicants, and on our main development list.

Please see the Course Documents for examples of embedding various external content within P2PU course pages.

There is no registration, signup task or syllabus for this course as it is just a demonstrion.

However, feel free to add comments to this page or contact me using my contact form if you have questions or feedback.

This feature should be available to course organizers and admins.

Contents
 

A. Create a rough sketch of the design

B. Page layout and color scheme

C. Creating the design 

D. Slicing the design

E. Coding the webpage

Planning (subject to change)

Day 1: creating the assets (youtube videos 1 - 6, see Course Material)
Day 2: creating the design (youtube videos 7-12, Course Material)
Day 3: coding the design: structuring it
Day 4: coding the design: styling it - without the images
Day 5: styling it: applying the images to the design
Day 6: Using Web fonts from the Fontsquirrel library
Day 7: Answering questions and Course Review

As reporters, analysts and programmers the participants will take part in the ongoing "HTML5 Browser Tournament" and create a report (website) on the state of HTML5 implementation at the time of Fall 2010.
During the week they will work on research and implementation of HTML5 features in different browsers. At the end of each week the team gathers together, using Skype or Tokbox, for a final review of results and achievements and a kick-off for the next assignement.
While working on their assignments they use agreed upon communication tools (e.g. email, mailing list, website, ...) to exchange status, to help each other on problems and share experiences. A central and open repository will contain the code that will be developed (github).

Themes we plan to cover:

• Some history, facts and introduction to HTML(5)
• New and deprecated elements and attributes
• Forms
• User Interaction and Web Applications
• Audio and Video
• Related specifications (Geolocation, Communication and Storage)

We therefore will use technologies like HTML (of course!), CSS3, SVG and JavaScript.

• Web Pages That Suck Vincent Flanders' rather in-your-face site . 
• UseIt.com: Jakob Neilsen's publicly available content
• Wikipedia article on Web Usability
• Usability Body of Knowledge 

Copyright vs. creative commons resources:

• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
• Creative Commons

Summary: Free 6 week self-study course to learn about Drupal. Week- by-week emails to help motivate you and organize your learning experience. Think of it as a book-club for free learning materials about Drupal.

Acknowledgements

Funding of the development of this course is provided by Acquia http://acquia.com/ to faciliate learning in the Drupal community. This course is part of P2PU's School of Webcraft organized by the Mozilla Drumbeat: http://www.drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft Web Enabled http://webenabled.com/ are supporting this course by providing an easy to use learning sandbox in their hosting environment. Numerous Drupal community members have created the open education resources which will be used in this course, they will be credited in the respective lessons.

What is this course about?

Problem: What is Drupal? What can it do? Drupal is peculiar, the features which make it powerful and different from other systems, also make it difficult to grasp. There are excellent resources out there, but a novice user can get google-itis from searching through material which isn’t at the right level, shows out dated practices, or is not up to date. This course will be a self-study introduction to take people on a rolling basis through the course.

How it works: Each week, you login to the site which contains 2-3 hours of selected self-study videos, tutorials and materials to work through. You will also get access to a recorded webinar* discuss the materials. Login to P2PU.org to discuss each weeks materials with fellow students. Acquia partner Web Enabled are offering a push-button hosting environment as an option for new users to learn on and try out some advanced features of Drupal.

* The first time it is run, a LIVE webinar is held so guest guides can answer learner questions- “What kinds of problems and questions did they find?” to talk about that weeks learning materials. These are recorded, and when students work through the course later, they watch the recorded webinars.

Each week:

• Mondays: Students receive weekly email
• Wednesdays: Pilot course: participate in live online session (in future,Watch recorded session)
• Pilot course live session times: 9 AM PST/ 10 AM MT/ 11 CT / 12 EST. Information sent via email.
• During the week:
  • Do learning activities (for example, watch a Dojo session, or other video, complete activities)
  • Participate in online discussion

Ruby is a fascinating object-oriented language suited for many purposes.  Rails is a popular web framework for Ruby.

This course will introduce the Ruby programming language, focusing on those features and concepts that will be important when developing web-based, database-backed Rails applications.

Course participants will learn with freely available web resources and by completing small assignments.  Participants will also create a simple web application individually or in small groups.

Because this course will cover a lot of ground, it will be completed over 10 weeks.

The basic process of learning and participation will be as follows:
1. Watch a video and study materials explaining certain Javascript concepts.
2. Reflect on what you learned and record your notes/reflections. If you have the time read the notes and reflections of other participants and engage them in a technical conversation.
3. Homework which may be a quiz and/or small programming assignments.
4. Upload programming assignments to your site.
5. Write posts to describe how you approached the assignment, what doubts you had while doing the assignment, and anything related to the assignment.
6. In this entire process of you have any questions, technical, or otherwise, please post them on the forum.
7. Along with asking questions, please also try and answer other participant's question whenever you can. Remember teaching is a great way to learn.

This course has been recreated at the new P2PU site. 

You will be able to follow this group.

http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/jquery-the-fundamentals/

jQuery is fast becoming a must-have skill for front-end developers and for those who have decided to learn the language but have found the jargon to confusing....then this course is for you. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the jQuery library and to explain the fundamentals in an easy and understandable way possible. And to offer real world projects to get your teeth stuck into.

When you're done with the course, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and have a solid basis from which to continue your learning.The best way to learn is by doing, so this course will be very much hands on.

We are going to be following along with Rebecca Murphy's jQuery Fundamentals online book and using the offline learning kit supplied by Addy Osmani. And in edition i will be using my own tutorials and towards the end of the course we will be visiting some of my favourite tutorials, which will be fun and should snap everything into place. I will say that even though i know jQuery, i am no way an expert so i will also be learning as we go.

This course is an introduction to programming for the complete beginner.  If you already can code in another language, this course will probably drive you insane, because it is extremely basic.  The text for the course is Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw and is available for download for free.

This course will be primarily meeting on the forums.  After joining the course you will be added to the group.  Then you will be able to post messages to the group either by going to the group link and posting to the forums, or by e-mail.

This course is for MediaWiki beginners, planned for acquiring different essential skills around the tool: editing, installing, administrating and customizing it. Each part is designed to address a topic and increases in complexity, from edition basics and tricks to having one wiki ready for your own collaborative purposes.

So be ready to navigate through some practical instructions (mainly video resources, but also some detailed HowTos), to get your hands dirty editing wikis and, specially, to upload stuff and check URLs (and then all over again) until your wiki looks and works as you want it to.

The course is basically asynchronous, except for a couple of weekly office hours. The process will be based on weekly discussions, then activity, then wrapping up. Participants are expected to work in the course related tasks around 3-5 hours minimum per week on average.

There will be an activity goal for every week, with a previous discussion about it and about the resources/knowledge needed. Before going to the next activity we should evaluate outputs together and troubleshooting if needed. Note that after the second week activities will take place mainly at each participant's MediaWiki installation.

:: Week #1
General info about the tool (example of Wikipedia and other potential uses): What's MediaWiki? What's a wiki by the way? What's the connection with Wikipedia? Other examples? > Activity: benchmarking wikis

:: Week #2
Editing MediaWiki (basic stuff but also some advanced things): How does it work? Which are its basic features? How to use HTML there? What can be done with it? What not? > Activity: MediaWiki editing

:: Week #3
Installing MediaWiki and basic features (design): How to install MediaWiki? Which are the basic admin features and privileges? How to change design and CSS? > Activity: installing and basic customization

:: Week #4
Extensions (exploring basic ones and some on demand): What's an extension? Which interesting ones are out there? How to install and customize them? > Activity: adding extensions

:: Week #5
Semantic MediaWiki (general info and creating a basic form): What's semantic MediaWiki? Which are its basic features? How to create a basic form? > Activity: semantic installing and form creation

:: Week #6
Wraping up and IAQ: How do we communicate around a wiki? How do we connect it with Social Media? What to do in case of vandalism? > Activity: polishing our wiki and final questions

For all this activities each participant will be involved into testing and/or checking some other participant's activity, and in some occasions reporting to the group (while all of them should report to the course facilitator when needed). So the whole process of peer-to-peer learning here depends on each participant doing a minimum activity for creating their stuff (writing, uploading, modifying code) plus paying attention to some other person activity (checking what he does, or being its beta tester).

Online maps are a rapidly growing technology.  The unique connection of maps to real world information has given open and crowdsourced maps some advantages over even the best-funded companies.

A Map Making and Programming Class

Course participants will add part of their community to the global OpenStreetMap, learn the basics of creating interactive online maps with OpenLayers, then research and design their final application.

Topics

* OpenStreetMap.org, a free and open "Wikipedia of maps," has time and time again proven the usefulness of open data.  In early 2010, responders to the Haiti earthquake turned to OpenStreetMap for the most detailed and up-to-date maps.

* OpenLayers.org, a free and open source JavaScript library, will be used to explore the basics of adding maps to web pages.  This experience gives you the know-how to use map APIs from Google, ESRI, Microsoft, or CloudMade (these alternatives will be part of a group discussion)

* Applications of maps, including open source solutions for business, disaster response, open government, and the environment, will be discussed.   Participants choose a research topic.

* A final 'interest project', chosen by the participant, will be a web map which displays real-world data and produces an informative, interactive, artistic, and/or persuasive online experience.

PHP es hoy el más popular de los lenguajes de programación en la web, fácil de aprender y altamente productivo, lo que lo ha convertido en la base de miles de sitios masivos en Internet - por ejemplo Wikipedia, Facebook - y decenas de proyectos de software libre programados en PHP, como Wordpress, Moodle, Drupal, Mediawiki, Joomla,

World wide web. Arquitectura cliente-servidor. Páginas estáticas y dinámicas.
Instalación de entornos de programación y prueba. Programación web: HTML y su interacción con PHP.
Sintaxis del lenguaje. Variables y funciones.
Tipos de datos. Estructuras de control. Arrays.
Acceso a bases de datos. Aplicaciones web.
Programación Orientada a Objetos en PHP: Clases. Atributos. Métodos.

In the Open Web world, we are often working with other peoples' code. Reading code helps to us to appreciate that there's no magic black box around "other peoples' code"; that it all comes down to logic; that every program has errors; and that sometimes reading the code is the best documentation.

This course will remind us that there is no magic-- only logic. We will dive into the mini universes of open source projects and learn techniques for getting oriented in projects large and small, debugging, stack traces, and simply getting comfortable reading code.

SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE CLOSED! THANKS!

[EN] Welcome to User Experience Design! This course will be run in English, Portuguese and Spanish simultaneously. Please read the "Sign-up Task" for more information about the selection process.
[PT] Bem-vindo a Design de Experiência de Usuário! Este curso será realizado em inglês, português e espanhol simultaneamente. Por favor leia a Tarefa de inscrição para maiores informações sobre o processo seletivo.
[ES] Bienvenidos al Diseño de Experiencia de Usuario! Este curso se llevará a cabo en Inglés, portugués y español simultáneamente. Por favor, lea la "Sign-up task" para obtener más información sobre el proceso de selección.

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[EN] This course is focused on exploring basic concepts and definitions of User Experience & Interaction design. Discussions and reading recommendations, together with analytical and practical activities will be used as a methodology. Due to the intrinsic multidisciplinary characteristic of the Design field, all kinds of professionals and students are welcomed. Also, as a recommendation of this semester's Webcraft program, some Accessibility concepts will be discussed.

[PT] Este curso se orienta a explorar conceitos e definições básicas acerca de Design de Experiência de Usuário e Interação. Discussões e recomendações de leitura, junto a atividades analíticas e práticas serão usadas como metodologia. Devido a característica multidisciplinar intrínseca ao Design, todos os profissionais e estudantes são bem-vindos. Também, por recomendação do programa deste semestre da escola de Webcraft, alguns conceitos de Acessibilidade serão discutidos.

[ES] Este curso se orienta a explorar los conceptos básicos y definiciones del diseño de Experiencia de Usuario y de Interacción. Como metodología de aprendizaje se llevarán a cabo debates y recomendaciones de material de lectura, junto a actividades prácticas y analíticas. Debido al carácter multidisciplinar intrínseco del campo de Diseño, son bienvenidos todos los profesionales y estudiantes. A su vez, como recomendación del programa Webcraft de este semestre, se discutirán algunos conceptos de Accesibilidad.

Instructional Design is a field of study that's directly related to cognitive and behavioral sciences. Its main objective is to maximize the experience of teaching and learning on special environments. This course is focused on VLE (Virtual Learning Environments). Many of the VLEs we have today are just file storage systems or discussion boards. Our mission then is to build interfaces, based on Ergonomics and Aesthetics concepts, that are easy to use, visually attractive and that motivate the users (not only students, but teachers as well) to participate on an active manner, not a passive one.

The course starts with an introduction to Infodesign, Human-centered design and Gestalt and Cognitive principles, so that every solution proposed can be coherently reasoned.

Before effectively proposing solutions to different learning scenarios, some "Personas-based" exercises will be done, so that the Designer can put him/herself into the role of the user.

After knowing the target audience, group exercises will happen around some specific questions: how can Instructional Design make the level of interaction among students, teachers and classmates to resemble the one they have when on conventional teaching methodologies? How can the basic principles of Gestalt and Cognitive sciences build the easiest path to things? How to work with open web standards and accessibility? How to explore multimedia content?

The course ends with rough concepts made into mock-up or prototypes, that are thoroughly analyzed via multi design thinking tools.

The student that attends this course will be able to develop user experience designs to be applied to various systems.

You will become aware of the top ten barriers in websites and how to recognize and avoid them. You will learn that accessibility reaches beyond blind people as there are many aspects of disabilities and perspectives to keep in mind. Checklists and add-ons help, but you will also get some first-hand insights in using (open source) screen reader software, and above all, to care about the people. Because beyond checklists you're touching their lives.

I'm planning to hold a weekly one hour telephone conference & chat via Skype for initial short presentations and discussion. We can exchange ideas and discuss assignments on the Wiki.

This community is working together to explore core principles of developing standards compliant web pages. By following the readings and working on recommended activities you'll begin to  learn how to define your page structure and content in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Please Note: This is not a facilitated course. This space acts a place to ask questions around a shared set of materials and activities. Courses for P2PU and School of Webcraft will begin again in January 2011.

To take best advantage of this community you will need to engage with each other: ask questions! give advice! be supportive!

It's recommended that you find a study partner from within the community and work together with them to develop a study plan for the readings and activities. Having a study partner will keep you motivated.

The learning materials shared in this study group cover the core principles of developing standards compliant web pages. They are intended to help you learn how to define your page structure and content in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Topics covered:

• How is a webpage constructed?
• What are web standards?
• What are the basic tools required to build a simple web site?
• How can I fix mistakes in my website code?
• How do I make my site visible on the web?

Participants should aim to  create simple websites (6-8 pages) containing text, images and hypertext links and can use this as a foundation for more advanced skills they can continue to develop in the School of Webcraft.  Course participants will learn about the importance of open web standards, will test their code on different browsers and will validate their code to guarantee it conforms to web standards.  Participants will also document techniques and code using a wiki - this will be used as a learning resource for future courses.

Please Note: only open web technologies will discussed during this course - proprietary formats such as Flash are not taught in the School of Webcraft.

WordPress has been gaining on the CMS marketshare and even won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in 2009. It has a great community behind it (and a growing one as well) and there is a lot of interest and enthusiasm on how to leverage WordPress on different scenarios.

Course Modus Operandi

Each week:

   * Monday: Students receive by email the assignment for the week.
   * Wednesday: Meet on https://alforreca.campfirenow.com/c300e for discussion. I will be there to answer any questions most of the day and other folks will also help if you ask nicely. We will log the conversations and post them on-line as a recording of what happened.
   * Sunday: I will post the results of the assignments (if you passed or failed).

http://bit.ly/fe4stz <------- Assignment Results

At the end of the course I will post how many challenges you did and how you did on each one.

Good luck and enjoy!