I give you the takeaways from a very special Community Call. As we close 2012, it’s time to prompt a reflective practice. To wit, I asked those on the call today: 1. How would you define the P2PU community? 2. What are your big goals for 2013? Hopefully our self-definition becomes our “compass”…
Hello peers! So we’ve been working on an experiment over here at P2PU–with SoundCloud, we hatched a plan to revamp the hackathon, peer-learning style. The event was Story Hack Boston, and took place this past Saturday at the MIT Media Lab. 44 storytellers and hackers came together to tell stories. It was totally baller. A Bit…
Greetings peers–I just returned from a whirlwind trip to Durham for the DML Grantee workshop. All of us grantees gathered together to share how we approach assessment and badging systems. As P2PU has been doing this stuff for awhile, we were asked by DML to talk about what we’re up to. DML Demo The…
Interested in the latest tools in digital storytelling? Curious about this whole “peer learning” thing? Want to make stuff using the SoundCloud API? Come to Story Hack Day! When: Saturday, September 29th @ 9am. Plan on hacking until 6. Where: MIT Media Media Lab–75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA Who: Anyone who is passionate about telling…
Our Executive Director Philipp Schmidt issued a call to action in his post “Let’s Make Badges Not Stink.” But, inevitably some badges will stink. Perhaps even on our platform–we’re creating a “Badge Issuer” that will encourage anyone to create a badge for their P2PU course. So how can the P2PU brand, voice, tone and core…
Fair reader– We’re looking for feedback on a mockup of the new homepage. We plan to incrementally improve it. P2PU <3 iteration! To wit, we ask for your help with the following tests: Test A can be found here. Test B can be found here. The test will be open until Friday, August 17th. Please…
Yesterday was rich with conversations about badges. Early in the day HASTAC and Mozilla hosted a webinar with Judd Antin, a User Experience Researcher from Facebook, on the Social Psychology of Badges. Later in the evening, I was fortunate to be part of a conversation about assessment hosted by P2PU Community Member Paul Allison for Connected…
Estimated number of epic conversations: a gazillon. And still going.
Notes by Vanessa Philipp: Yesterday: Dirk’s performance Today: working with School of Open Piet: Yesterday: School of Open–balancing act between brainstorming abstract and granular Today: Make sense of the brainstorming, something usable & actionable Bekka: Yesterday: Course promotion tweets and blogging Today: Taking some well-deserved time off, celebrating Nelson Mandela’s bday, staff meeting Jessy: Yesterday:…
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