This post comes to you from Anna Sakoyan, who participated as a “Data Agent” the Data Explorer Mission, a partnership between Peer 2 Peer University and the Open Knowledge Foundation. The course ran from mid-April to mid-May, and primed Agents to analyze, clean, visualize data, tell a story with it, and facilitate their group. Here is…
Posts By: Vanessa Gennarelli
Contributors: We Made You A Present
Contributors and translators: we <3 you. So much, we put together a little number for you to express our thanks: Track / Artist / P2PUer Selection 1. “Divine” / Sebastien Tellier / Philipp 2. “Standing in the Way of Control” / Gossip / Vanessa 3. “Hang With Me” / Robyn / Vanessa 4. “Danke Shoen”…
Step Into Our Lab: What Have Our Researchers Found?
We’ve launched several experiments in the future of learning–several iterations of Badges, scalable experiences like the Mechanical MOOC, and p2pu.org itself. On the flipside of these exciting initiatives, we’ve been working with researchers to unearth trends and successes amongst these projects. As we consider our policy to release our data to researchers, we wanted to…
Happy Release Day! We are OBI Compliant, Folks.
Maybe you saw this outside your window this morning: That was our release on badges.p2pu.org 🙂 Big stuff for P2PU this week, including the much-anticipated very-exciting stellar and celebratory news… You can now push Badges to the Mozilla Open Badges Backpack. If you’ve earned a Badge on badges.p2pu.org, log into your account and view “My…
At the Cockpit: How the Data Explorer Mission Works
We provide multiple pathways to learning here at P2PU–if visual is your thing, here’s the walkthrough of Data Explorer Missions on our Community Call (start around minute 19:00): Last year Peer 2 Peer University and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched an initiative to to meet the global demand for data-wrangling skills–enter the School of Data….
How We Make the Glue (Without Getting Sticky)
Last Week… I came back from yoga to my Brooklyn apartment, and our Tech Lead, Dirk Uys, was asleep. On my couch. He was in town from Durban, South Africa en route to Boston for a hackathon. I fixed coffee, poked that dormant mound of jetlagged developer, and we called Erika, our front-end wizard in…
OKFN & P2PU Partner for a Featured Expedition: “Data Explorer Missions”
Image CC-By-SA J Brew on Flickr Your Mission: Tell Stories with Data Learn how to tinker with, refine and tell a story with data in this 4-week course. Each week you’ll be commissioned to work with others on a project that will hone your data-wrangling skills. Lessons will be pulled from Open Knowledge Foundation and…
Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges
As Grantees of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, Peer 2 Peer University has created a platform for anyone who wants to make and issue Badges. We launched badges.p2pu.org at the DML Conference in Chicago last week to an amazing response. Folks were very receptive to our project-based and feedback-driven approach. Here’s a bit of a walkthrough…
It’s the Feedback, Silly! P2PU’s Plan for Badges
At P2PU we’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about badges–and here is our plan for a qualitative, feedback-based system for our third badge iteration. This was presented at the Digital Media and Learning Grantees Conference in Irvine, CA on January 25, 2013. 2013 Update P2PU + Badges from Vanessa Gennarelli
We Met on Etsy: a Story of Serendipity and Learning
It started with the kind of problem that hatches romantic comedies: I lost a ring. And not just any ring–one my girl Elena had bought me during a recent BFF-a-thon in Stockholm. Not only was I super bummed, but I felt like I’d let a solid piece of karma escape through my fingers. So I…