Day 6 session for POSSE. Theme for the day: Teaching

Status Check

• Brief quiz/review of previous day.
• Discussion from previous night's dinner -- contacts made, lessons learned.
• Rose/Thorn/Bud update from each participant
  • Rose: something learned
  • Thorn: problem encountered
  • Bud: something anticipated in the future
• Physical wiki update.
• Open source news -- current developments.

Teaching Open Source

Morning A Session

• What we've learned
  • Review of the knowledge/experience grid
  • Changes in perspective
• Examination of the teaching techniques used through the week

• A look at the particular challenges of teaching within the community
  • Standing on shifting sand
    • Technology and community moves very fast
  • Being part of the community vs. watching from outside
  • Student projects
    • Modeling open source development process in your course
    • Finding appropriate work
    • What happens when the community fails you?
    • What happens when the student(s) fail the community?
    • Grading
  • Communication
    • Blogging, attracting attention, knowing what's too much
    • Dealing with communication disasters
    • Failing publicly (and realizing it can be a good thing)
    • Buffering community--student communication
  • Setting expectations
    • For students
    • For community
    • For school/admins
  • Models for interacting with projects/communities
    • Many (students) to Many (projects)
    • Many (students) to One (project)
    • Many (students) to One (project with sub-projects)
    • Individuals vs. Groups?
    • Large vs. Small communities/projects
  • Moving from outside to the edge to the core
    • Meeting real people (OLS, FUDCon, OSCON, Release Parties, BarCamp, DemoCamp)
    • Taking some risks
      • Switching from lurker to writer
      • Sending emails introducing yourself
      • Commenting on blogs of people you want to work with
      • Take control of a niche in the community

Wrap-up Session

Morning B Session

• What does your course look like?
  • Your course outline/plans in 3-5 minutes
    • How that has evolved over the week? What has been confirmed/reinforced?
    • What do you need to succeed? What can this group do to help you (now, future)?
    • Discussion
• Spreading the flame
  • Getting our colleagues involved
  • Mentoring other faculty
• Keeping in touch
  • TeachingOpenSource.org
    • TOS Summit
  • See you in the community!
• Feedback