User:Bmorgan
Becka Morgan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Western Oregon University. Becka returned to school in 2005 to complete a Bachelor degree, originally planned to be in Political Science. After taking a CS class she fell in love with computer science and changed her major. In 2008 Becka earned her BS in Computer Science, emphasis in Software Engineering, graduating summa cum laude. During the last year of her undergrad Becka was offered a job teaching computer science at WOU. She earned a MS in Management and Information Systems in 2009 and her PhD in Computer Science Education in December of 2012. Her dissertation is titled How does a Collaborative Community Affect Diverse Students' Engagement with an Open Source Software Project: A Pedagogical Paradigm.
The Open Source class developed as a research model for Dr. Morgan (yes, it is still fun to write the Dr. part :-) ) has been adopted by the CS department for both the undergrad as well as the Masters program, however she feels that there is a much better way to teach people how to participate in OSS and so she is very excited about Posse.
In her spare time Becka is busy with her two teenage daughters, volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, and riding her bike.
IRC Activity
- How do people interact?
The interaction between participants was familiar, as if it was part of an ongoing conversation. It appears as though this meeting is between a group who has worked together for awhile.
- What is the pattern of communication?
Most of the conversation is direct between a few people, however there are places where there is more then one conversation. This requires the ability to follow multiple threads at once.
- Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning?
There are emoticons used to relay expressions. This example also uses the construct of nick: to show specifically addressing someone.
- Can you make any other observations?
There are #command that are used by the meeting bot to organize the meeting notes, highlighting important information so it stands out in the notes.
