> My intention is to spend the summer getting to know the teams better, > and come back next term with two different groups, and more > scaffolding in place to help the students ease into the community.
Really, I think this is the way to go. Identifying teams and projects that want the participation and identifying a range of targets before things begin is gonna help with a lot of this. That way the team is prepped and maybe one or more "ambassdors" within the team who speak standard English and willing to serve as point people to handle tne basic noob questions and route questions that need expertise to the experts in the teams could go a long way to scaffolding the students and the profs. Could extend that model to POSSEs as well if it hasn't already been established. FOr example the RIT POSSE is going to be a mixed bag this year with some Computing College Profs and some from things like English Lit and Journalism programs. The lit prof is a big mover in getting academics to use wikis and the Journo prof is going to attend another WS this year that puts journalists and programmers together in the same room to learn each others needs and skills. There's a small but growing movement to build journalist/programmer hybrids who can use or build tools to scrape data from public databases and visualize it or make tools for the average person to manipulate it as part of news stories. These are clearly people we want but that we'll also have to work with differently and find the right team to help with before the POSSE begins. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
