We recently kicked off a mentoring program at P2PU to help people learn web development. We’re in the pilot stage, but we’re looking forward to opening up for everyone very soon. Here’s a first hand look into what the program is like from the view of one of my mentees. Vanessa Gennarelli is a P2PU…
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We’re Hiring a Developer – Get Paid to Write Open Source Code
Spread the Word P2PU is hiring a Django Developer, all the details are below. Even if you’re not a developer, you can help. Tell all your friends we’re hiring by tweeting/sharing the following: “Get Paid to Write Open Source Code” @p2pu is hiring a Django Developer. bit.ly/w4hvbL — P2P University (@p2pu) December 12, 2011 Django…
School of Education Update
Post by P2PU Community Member Karen Fasimpaur. There have been some exciting things going on at the School of Education courses on P2PU that we want to share. In Multimedia and Graphics to Facilitate Deeper Learning, developer and facilitator Steve O’Connor, a fifth grade teacher in New York, has developed a series of excellent interactive…
State of Webcraft: Webmaking 101
(Photo CC-BY-NC-SA rgourley) NOTE: We need your help, find ways to get involved at the end of this post. It’s been an exciting year for School of Webcraft. Starting with Mashing Up the Open Web the community has rallied to offer over twenty different courses ranging from Introduction to Ruby on Rails to HTML5. We…
Grades: An Acknowledgement That Schooling Is Insufficiently Rewarding
I’m currently reading “A Language Older Than Words” by Derrik Jensen and came across this gem that I was keen on sharing with you all: Grades, as is true once again for wages later in life, are an implicit acknowledgement that the process of schooling is insufficiently rewarding on its own grounds for people to…