Join community member Jose Flores in this volunteer effort to build a read-only API for P2PU. Description: This project entails the creation of an Application Programming Interface (API) that will expose some of the information available in the P2PU platform to third party consumers. A web API can be described as a series of calls…
If you have followed our blog posts or community calls you might already know that we have recently completed a pilot under the title “Webmaking 101” with the School of Webcraft. Amongst the new and exciting things we tried out in that pilot was a set of community badges, that highlighted skills such as giving…
This week’s guest post is from Leah McVie, educator, photographer, and open ed enthusiast. She is an active P2PU DIY U participant who is diving into the open badges community. She is currently exploring ways to mix the open education philosophy into institutional practices. She blogs on leahmacvie.com. ============================== When I go to work I…
We’re going local! As part of the global celebration of Open Education Week, P2PU community members in London are hosting a local learning party! Learn how to create Challenges on the p2pu.org platform, play some games and be part of 24 hours of free online education. We might even head to the pub at one…
Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively shape, remix…
This week’s community call was something a little different. Under the expert guidance of Chloe-the-challenge-guru, we had a party. Literally. This week’s challenge party was the badge edition, and we focused on brainstorming badges to associate with new challenges that have been created on p2pu.org, and how to build rubrics and assessments for these challenges…
The Test4Theory team is excited to announce their first P2PU challenge to help people to become a volunteer contributor to scientific projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). You might be more familiar with CERN’s giant particle accelerator, the famous Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Participants in the Test4Theory/P2PU challenge will be welcomed into…
This week’s call was great – good discussions, great feedback and some brilliant tools, ideas and suggestions from the community. This is just a summary of the main discussions, there was a lot more that went on, so have a look at the etherpad for the full notes. This Week’s Main Discussions The…
We love it when community members make videos about P2PU. Karen Fasimpaur, we love you.
Thanks to some of our brilliant community members Thieme Hennis and Alexis Hevia, P2PU Challenges are speaking two new languages! Our first challenge in Dutch (for Dutch teachers) can be found here and the ever-popular Webmaking 101 Challenges have now been translated into Spanish here. Lekker!