A General Schedule for an Open Content Barn Raising
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Tomorrow, on January 24th, at Science Leadership Academy, from 10 to 4:30, we are having the first of several participant-led work days focused on authoring and sharing open content.
As we have discussed before, our goal is to create a framework that can be used by anyone, anywhere to hold similar community-led events for the purpose of authoring open content. Toward that end, here is a general schedule that we will use to structure the workday. We will likely adjust this as needed, but this general structure will get us started:
- 10 to 10:30 - Introductions - if people have specific goals for the day, we'll use the intros to help set priorities and, where appropriate, set people up in teams;
- 10:30 to 12:30 - Work;
- 12:30 to 12:45 - Pre-lunch check in - before we grab lunch, we will check in and see how people are progressing. If there are any issues that will benefit from the attention/work of the group, we'll look at them together;
- 12:45 to 1:45 - Lunch;
- 1:45 to 2:15 - Post-lunch check in - after people return from lunch, we'll revisit the goals we set in the morning. If any newcomers are joining us post-lunch, we'll get them set up and working;
- 2:15 to 4 - Work;
- 4 to 4:30 - Closing - in the closing conversation, we'll identify how people want to follow up on the day, including next steps, and what can be improved in future events.
Additionally, as part of our work with open content, we are building an open source content authoring platform. During the workday (and also during all of EduCon) we would love for some folks to work with us on some usability testing. We have a solid prototype in place, and a roadmap for future development, but we also want input from other people. If you are interested in learning more about user testing and aren't going to be at the Barnraising on Thursday, please get in touch with Andrea Burton - within FunnyMonkey, Andrea is the UX expert.
After the barnraising on Thursday, we'll post up a summary of the day. For those of you coming to the event, we'll see you tomorrow!
