Stage 2 Activities

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Objectives

Participants completing the Stage 2 workshop will be able to:

  • Name and explain a variety of learning activities that student participation in HFOSS projects may include
  • Plan and implement HFOSS activities appropriate for their curriculum and students
  • Explain challenges and opportunities of student HFOSS participation
  • Discuss key aspects of FOSS culture and process
  • Select HFOSS projects better suited for student participation
  • Identify key sources of information for learning about HFOSS
  • Participate in POSSE Stage 3

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities.


Time Activity Team
Day 1 (Afternoon and Evening)
1:30 PM Leave the hotel for POSSE All
2:00 1.1 Welcome
  • Plan for the day
  • Welcome to Raleigh and Red Hat
  • Introducing everyone - a group task
    • Using an Etherpad
      • Enter your own name
      • Enter one or two "fun facts" about someone else, who you will introduce to the group
  • Workshop overview and schedule
Greg, Stoney
3:00 1.2 Examples of HFOSS in Education
  • Examples of actual student contributions
  • Small Group: A variety of assignments and samples of student work will be provided. Participants will evaluate the quality of the assignment and work
    • Show one response and ask how they'd respond, how would you evaluate the assignment?
    • What was the benefit of the assignment and why was it worth having this as an assignment?
    • How does this fit with assessment?
    • Provide one idea for scaling up or scaling down - modifications
    • Report out
Stoney, Heidi
4:00 BREAK All
4:15

1.3 Project Evaluation Activity

  • Compare notes from stage 1.B.2 activity
  • Review critical criteria for a chosen project
  • Go through secondary criteria for chosen project (if time permits)
Heidi, Sean
5:30 Dinner - FOSS Visitor: Ed Gehringer, NC State All
6:45

1.4 Project Intros and Typical Workflow Activity

  • In groups, review the major features of the project
  • Walk through the workflow for the project
    • Clone out code for "test" project
    • Fix a small bug in "test" project
Stoney
8:00 Social Hour - Optional All
Day 2
8:00 Leave the hotel for POSSE All
8:15 Continental breakfast All
8:30 2.1 Understanding Open Source Communities
  • Perspective on a few example HFOSS communities
    • Basic information: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary
    • Understanding the community landscape and process
    • Becoming a participant: lurking, joining the community, being visible, finding things to do
  • Background: Results of Stage 1.B.1 learning activity
Greg
9:15

2.2 HFOSS in the Curriculum

  • Discussion of options for getting started
  • Example: A single HFOSS assignment in a course
  • Example: HFOSS in a project course
  • Example: HFOSS as a course
  • HFOSS beyond the curriculum
  • Trying to find the right size student project
  • Evaluating student work
  • Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner
Heidi, Greg
10:30 Break All
10:45 2.3 Planning for HFOSS Participation Darci, Greg
12:00 Lunch All
1:00

2.4 Understanding POSSE Stage 3

  • Overview of Stage 3 group activities over the past year for: OpenMRS, Mousetrap, Ushahidi
  • Evaluation in Stage 3
  • Group Informatics
Greg, Darci, Sean
1:45

2.5 Planning for POSSE Stage 3

  • Some experience reports from Stage 3
  • Small Group Discussion - discuss the following:
    • List at least one modification to the Stage 3 process that you think would improve instructor support.
    • Are there other examples/ideas for improving communication and instructor support?
    • How will our group communicate and support each other?
    • Can/how will we create joint activities?
    • Report back on the group answers to the above questions
Stoney, Suzanne, Alex
3:00 Break All
3:15

2.6 Group Hands-on Work

  • Completing project set up in groups
All
5:00 Return to the hotel All
5:30 Dinner - Vic's Italian Restaurant Raleigh NC, 331 Blake St, Raleigh, NC 27601-1801, 0.5 miles from Red Hat Annex, 0.3 miles from Hotel All
Day 3
8:00 Leave the hotel (checkout first) All
8:15 Continental breakfast All
8:30 3.1 HFOSS Process and Tools
  • How tools fit and support HFOSS culture
  • Upstream Adoption
    • Version control - role in a FOSS project
    • How to get a change committed.
  • FERPA
  • Licensing and Intellectual Property
Heidi, Tom, Gina
9:30

3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities

Stoney, Greg
10:15 Break All
10:30 3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued
  • Identify kinds of contributions students can make
  • Brainstorming session
    • Talk about how you would create student deliverables
    • Now using the template, start to create the activity whose development began in 2.3
      • Make sure to make a copy of the template for each activity
Greg, Stoney, Darci
12:00 Lunch - FOSS Visitor: Helena Mitasova, NC State All
12:45 3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued
  • Groups report back on work done before lunch (early 3.2)
Greg, Stoney, Darci
1:45 3.3 Stage 3 - First Steps
  • What will the group do together?
  • Plan some initial activities (faculty only or faculty and students)
  • Discuss group communication
Sean, Stoney
2:45 3.4 Going Forward
  • Evaluation form
  • Open discussion
  • Closing remarks
Greg
3:30 End - shuttles and taxi to airport/train All

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