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| − | Evaluation.
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| − | I'm doing a little better with the Evaluation activity. Mostly, I got off SourceForge and went to OpenHub.
| + | ... was somewhat overwhelming. There are tons of things to learn and we are all |
| − | OpenHub is much more tailored to the kind of things we are looking for, projects that are even open
| + | not in the same place. I'm sort of at the point of just learning how to get into |
| − | for contributors, for starters. I found a music composing system
| + | a FOSS, so I was behind in the activities relating to how to teach this stuff |
| − | called Rosegarden. It's somewhat developed, but there is still activity, things to do. At times there
| + | (not that I'm worried -- I am already into the philosophy of the whole thing). |
| − | have been many contributors, but it's just a handful at this point. And they invite people to join.
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| − | Planning 1. It took me a while to think about which course(s) I'd want to try FOSS in. I love the
| + | Stage 2 |
| − | idea of working on real projects, but so far it seems to me that you can't count on a student learning
| + | I'm writing this just as the workshop is finishing. |
| − | anything in particular from working on a FOSS project except for learning about the process itself
| + | It's still kinda overwhelming, but I know a lot more than I did. This whole thing |
| − | of working on a group project. (And yes, I have the nagging sense that that is too narrow minded, that
| + | leans on GitHub, which luckily I already use. Maybe the best thing I got |
| − | if I found the right project I could teach networking with it, but I just don't see it yet.) Anyway,
| + | was a pretty good answer to how to make my courses REALLY out there (and |
| − | my Software Engineering course has as its only goal to teach the process of making software, so | + | be able to just 'push' notes and have them get to the students). |
| − | I really need look no further.
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| − | So now what about an assignment? If I have a class, do we all work on the same project? In the
| + | Stage 3 |
| − | pre-net world, the class itself was the group. But now, with groups out there, every student
| + | ... yet to come. |
| − | could join a different one and all be fine. But if we spread out, my evaluation of them
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| − | becomes difficult, and we lose the aspect of group-pounding that may be needed
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| − | to get our foot in the door. (Or perhaps this is just my ignorance, that I haven't put MY
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| − | foot in any doors yet, not really.) Anyway, if we all stay as a group, how does a project
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| − | with a handful of developers deal with suddenly having 20? That doesn't seem right either.
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| − | How about we go in pairs or triplets?
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| − | So the first assignment is, get into the group of developers, get your voice in the mix,
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| − | download and run the code, look at the documentation, see what it looks like. Then you can
| + | [[Category:POSSE 2014-11]] |
| − | look for a place to help. If I'm supposed to have a specific project where I can say "go
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| − | find X and do Y to it", I don't. And I've discovered that the Rosegarden project is for
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| − | Linux, which is fine, I just don't have Linux box I can put my hands on right now. Do
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| − | I really need one? Do all of my students?
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I'm a professor at Meredith College in Raleigh. We do a real CS major, but there's only two
of us teaching, so I wear many hats.
Stage 1
... was somewhat overwhelming. There are tons of things to learn and we are all
not in the same place. I'm sort of at the point of just learning how to get into
a FOSS, so I was behind in the activities relating to how to teach this stuff
(not that I'm worried -- I am already into the philosophy of the whole thing).
Stage 2
I'm writing this just as the workshop is finishing.
It's still kinda overwhelming, but I know a lot more than I did. This whole thing
leans on GitHub, which luckily I already use. Maybe the best thing I got
was a pretty good answer to how to make my courses REALLY out there (and
be able to just 'push' notes and have them get to the students).
Stage 3
... yet to come.
