On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Steven Huss-Lederman <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy!
Hiya! > I'll definitely be at SIGCSE (I'm one of the student volunteer and activity > coordinators if you have students who want free registration for volunteering > some hours). I'm happy to share my experiences at a BoF. I added you to the wiki page! > I'll throw out some ideas for the BoF. They are just thoughts. I'm happy to > edit if others think these have merit. I think they do have merit. Just go ahead and edit them in! :) > You are trying to pitch to professors. Make the students and other > professors the primary focus/presenters. They will explain how to get > started with TOS and answer questions. It will be a session to learn the > resources to do this. Instead of saying it is "no-cost" say it costs no > money and there is support for doing this. Make this clearer and stronger. > The current ideas say this but I'm not sure if the punch is there. (I think > the current one is fine too.) Along these lines, can we get some students > from POSSE institutions to come? This would be a great way of using course funding the POSSE cohort members received -- getting exposed to an acedemic conference and sharing open source experiences. > Add some buzz words for this audience: hands-on learning, community-based > learning, project-based learning, student centered/driven, etc. > Make the abstract sound more exciting to entice people to come. How excited > profs and students who do this are. How it leads to real and deep learning > for everyone. Maybe something fun in there. If this was more of a workshop thing, I could think of utilizing the "virtual fieldtrip" analogy we used at CCSCNE... still pondering, though. Thanks, --Sebastian (who's at LinuxCon right now and will see whether we can immerse not just professors using a modified POSSE curriculum tomorrow) > Another thought. Could we have a different (meaning second) BoF for > students? There are usually 75-100 students at SIGCSE. If you could > motivate them to come to a BoF (hard to motivate students but easier since > few sessions are aimed at them) then we would hit the other side of the > equation. This would be a more unique BoF (and likely with few participants) > but could be interesting. We have several OSS oriented students to present > with maybe one prof involved. The focus is on students to go back to their > schools and who may become profs in a number of year. Build the pipeline. > Would this work? Could we get enough students (3 would be nice)? > > Thanks for reading. > > Steve > > On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Heidi Ellis wrote: > >> Hey Sebastian, >> >> I've been perusing the SIGCSE page on TOS. I think that we can't submit >> exactly the same BoF as last year. My suggestion would be to revamp it >> slightly and invite a bunch of POSSE grads and indicate that we'd all share >> how POSSE helped us get started and our experiences in student participation >> in FOSS. Something that goes a bit beyond last year's BoF and builds on >> experience. >> >> Any other POSSE grads interested in sharing information? >> Heidi >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian Dziallas >> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:20 PM >> To: TOS >> Subject: [TOS] Let's talk about SIGCSE 2012 plans. >> >> The submission deadline is coming up on September 1st, so I went ahead >> and created a wiki page to help coordinating the different efforts >> around SIGCSE. Feel free to toss in comments & requests here [0] or >> simply reply here. >> >> Who's planning on attending, and who's still looking for co-authors? >> >> --Sebastian >> >> [0] http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2012 >> _______________________________________________ >> tos mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tos mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
