Call for courses - January 2011

[Pippa B]

The School of Webcraft is a joint venture between Mozilla and Peer 2
Peer University (P2PU) to create a grassroots learning community
focused on web development using open standards. In September, the
School of Webcraft ran its pilot round of courses which included
topics such as Beginning Python Webservices, Introduction to Drupal,
Scripting 101 and UX: Designing for Education. Participants in
September's courses came from Brazil, Japan, the USA, UK, Germany,
Spain and India and included content in both English and Portuguese.

From January 2011 we move into our second round of courses with a plan
to double our course numbers and to provide more courses in languages
other than English. We're also implementing a pilot round of
assessment challenges in conjunction with badges that recognise your
awesome web development skills.

We're now seeking proposals for the major round of courses to be run
from late January 2011. We're looking for volunteers to guide groups
of peers through a 6-10 week learning experience around web
development topics relating to the open web and web standards. You
don't have to be a web development expert to run a course, you just
have to be curious, motivated and eager to learn alongside other
passionate people.

Building on the delivery model developed by P2PU, course organizers
volunteer to take existing open learning materials or develop their
own content and lead a group of peers through 6 to 10 weeks of online
classes. Courses focus on project based learning in a peer environment
and are proposed, created and led by members of the web development
community – so content will always be up to date with the latest
technologies and industry needs.

Course organisers receive support in peer-learning facilitation and
designing their course structure from the P2PU orientation team.
Guidance and assistance regarding course content and web development
learning resources is provided by the Webcraft community in
partnership with Mozilla.

We've set a target of 30 courses which range from web development
basics for novice developers, through to challenging content for
experienced developers. You can work with existing openly licensed
content such as the WaSP Interact Curriculum, or you can frame your
course around a series of questions and challenges that your learning
group works through together.

To get involved please share your course idea via this mailing list or
via <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?
formkey=dEdtSFFDeUM3MzBVTzhBd2E4anRwU0E6MQ">this form</a>.

[Dan Diebolt]

I am preparing a jQuery course for the January session. The course will use Rebecca Murphy's open source ebook "jQuery Fundamentals" [1] and using collaborative tools such as jsfiddle [2] for demos and code sharing, weekly video lessons, and some type of free podcasting tool such as TalkShoe (participate via dial in or client software). Rather than extensively covering every aspect of the jQuery API and plugins, the course will have a emphasis on learning jQuery in a participatory environment using jQuery community resources and free tools such as jsfiddle, firebug and firebug extensions [4] to aid the learning process.

[1] jQuery Fundamentals
http://jqfundamentals.com/book/book.html

[2] jsfiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/

[3] TalkShoe
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/

[4] Firebug Extensions
http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Extensions

[Darkelve]

Hi all,

I'm making good progress on my course "From Gimp to Html" scheduled
for January.


Software used: Gimp / Gedit / Firefox

Code files and images are (as good as) ready, right now I am recording
the video (saved as .mkv), I might need to convert it to a more
universal format. I should be available for live chat on Wednesday,
but since I just got a new job and do not yet know when I will start,
I was wondering if (if worst comes to worst), I could make the videos
available and reply to student questions by e-mail.

Regards,

Wouter

[capi etheriel]

Hi all, Hi Wouter

I would be very pleased to present a course on SASS/Compass and Standards Compliant Web Design.

I believe it can be aggregated to such a course as "From GIMP to HTML", or maybe I should do it on my own, since I use an extra tool (sass/compass) and focus on CSS and Object-oriented CSS Development (as seen on http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/object-oriented-css )

Regards,
capi

[Pippa Buchanan]

Hi Capi,

your course idea sounds really interesting and great for the School of Webcraft. I've never heard about SASS / Compass. I'm guessing that you write the OO-CSS and it produces valid CSS? Could you explain more? Stubornella's slides are great about why to use it but I couldn't understand how it works.

I think that this type of course could be placed at an advanced level. The idea of optimising the way CSS works for larger sites feels like it should follow on after developers have some significant experience and are confident about their skills but have realised the limitations of CSS.

I'd run the course independently of From GIMP to HTML, I feel that there's at least 6 weeks of learning required for both courses.

What do you think?

Best,

Pippa

BTW, If you'd like to talk more about your idea let me know by When is Good so we can make a better Community Call meeting time: http://whenisgood.net/f4rziq

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[Dan]

Read here: http://compass-style.org and watch the video: http://compass-style.org/docs/ I think the course would be at most intermediate level as the framework attempts to avoid the true complexities of authoring raw CSS by introducing variables, hierarchy, mixins, math etc to write CSS. I like this course idea myself. --- On Thu, 12/9/10, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.B...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Josmas Flores]

Hey guys,

would a course on virtual worlds development fit into webcraft?

I'm a member of the open wonderland community (http://openwonderland.org) and I'd be happy to organise something like this but it does not really involve many web technologies; it's 100% Java (bit advanced, but anyone that has used Java before shouldn't have a problem).

I'm talking about both building the world itself, and scripting within the world. I'm not too keen on the 'web 3D' kinda tags but some people called them that. You guys think it would fit?

cheers,

José

[Jessy Kate]

I think this would be neat especially if you cover some of the
underlying technologies and generalizable concepts. There definitely
some neat stuff in terms of how these virtual worlds work over the
network too.

On Friday, December 10, 2010, Josmas Flores <josmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,

> would a course on virtual worlds development fit into webcraft?I'm a member of the open wonderland community (http://openwonderland.org) and I'd be happy to organise something like this but it does not really involve many web technologies; it's 100% Java (bit advanced, but anyone that has used Java before shouldn't have a problem).

> I'm talking about both building the world itself, and scripting within the world. I'm not too keen on the 'web 3D' kinda tags but some people called them that. You guys think it would fit?
> cheers,José
>
> On 10 December 2010 00:11, Dan <dandi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Read here:
>

> http://compass-style.org <http://compass-style.org/>
>  <http://compass-style.org/>and watch the video:

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[capi etheriel]

Apart from the links sent by dandiebolt, the idea is that css can be thought of as a a modularized object styling.
For instance, say I have a drupal website with loads of blocks. So i can write a SCSS (css-like sass) code like this:

.-block-object {
  h2 { padding: 0.5em 0; font-size: 1.3em; }
  .content { padding-bottom: 1em; }
}

and some skins

now all i have to do is apply them, like
.sidebar .block { @extend .-block-object; }

interesting, right? but what if we change the drupal theme or if we change to wordpress?
let's say the wordpress markup has .widget instead of .block

.sidebar .widget { @extend .-block-object};

done :)

[Pippa B]

Hey José, that's a really good idea, sadly though the School of
Webcraft focus is on technology that can be experienced via the
browser and if the virtual world is running as a JAR executable that's
not within our scope. Were Open Wonderland to be ported to work
within WebGL and could run natively in the browser Webcraft could
support the course.

However as Jessie mentions, a course about network technologies of
connected virtual worlds would be interesting and more relevant to the
School of Webcraft.

While School of Webcraft can't directly support and promote a Java
course, we'd definitely give you a shout out if you ran a course
within the general P2PU course structure.

P*

On Dec 10, 10:58 pm, Josmas Flores <josmasflo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> would a course on virtual worlds development fit into webcraft?
> I'm a member of the open wonderland community (http://openwonderland.org)
> and I'd be happy to organise something like this but it does not really
> involve many web technologies; it's 100% Java (bit advanced, but anyone that
> has used Java before shouldn't have a problem).
> I'm talking about both building the world itself, and scripting within the
> world. I'm not too keen on the 'web 3D' kinda tags but some people called
> them that. You guys think it would fit?
>
> cheers,
> José
>

> On 10 December 2010 00:11, Dan <dandieb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Read here:
>
> >http://compass-style.org
>

> > <http://compass-style.org/>and watch the video:

>
> >http://compass-style.org/docs/
>
> > <http://compass-style.org/docs/>I think the course would be at most
> > intermediate level as the framework attempts to avoid the true complexities
> > of authoring raw CSS by introducing variables, hierarchy, mixins, math etc
> > to write CSS. I like this course idea myself.
>

> > --- On *Thu, 12/9/10, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Bucha...@gmail.com>* wrote:

>
> > From: Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Bucha...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [p2pu-webcraft] Re: Call for courses - January 2011
> > To: p2pu-w...@googlegroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 6:57 PM
>
> > Hi Capi,
>
> > your course idea sounds really interesting and great for the School of
> > Webcraft. I've never heard about SASS / Compass. I'm guessing that you write
> > the OO-CSS and it produces valid CSS? Could you explain more? Stubornella's
> > slides are great about why to use it but I couldn't understand how it works.
>
> > I think that this type of course could be placed at an advanced level. The
> > idea of optimising the way CSS works for larger sites feels like it should
> > follow on after developers have some significant experience and are
> > confident about their skills but have realised the limitations of CSS.
>
> > I'd run the course independently of From GIMP to HTML, I feel that there's
> > at least 6 weeks of learning required for both courses.
>
> > What do you think?
>
> > Best,
>
> > Pippa
>
> > BTW, If you'd like to talk more about your idea let me know by When is Good
> > so we can make a better Community Call meeting time:
> >http://whenisgood.net/f4rziq
>

> > On 10 December 2010 06:16, capi etheriel <barrapo...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=barrapo...@gmail.com>

> > > wrote:
>
> > Hi all, Hi Wouter
>
> > I would be very pleased to present a course on SASS/Compass and Standards
> > Compliant Web Design.
>
> > I believe it can be aggregated to such a course as "From GIMP to HTML", or
> > maybe I should do it on my own, since I use an extra tool (sass/compass) and
> > focus on CSS and Object-oriented CSS Development (as seen on
> >http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/object-oriented-css)
>
> > Regards,
> > capi
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[Jessy Kate]

also of course you could always do it as a regular p2pu course, even if it's not a webcraft course!

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[Josmas Flores]

Hey guys,

the client is actually launched through Java Web start... You go into
a page, click on a link and it downloads automatically but it does not
run within the browser. Running it as a P2PU course is also cool so
might go with that. Thanks for the feedback!

cheers,
José

[Hessam]

I'm going to present a course about security and cryptography, about
openssl and other tools but wondering if it's within the scope of
Webcraft?

[jcreamer120]

This looks great. I would definitely want to participate.

[blazingbiz]

I would suggest Business related courses like web analytics, ad
management, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and so forth. Also job
hunting skills for web industry people, what to do to really land a
job from a job site, what kind of resumes get looked at, how to seal
an interview, client acquisition, web consultant work, client
management, getting business requirements from clients to do their web
related projects. Also teaching clients what they should expect for
what payment and the realities of web based business to counter
balance all the pipe dream hype people are being sold about having a
web site and being a millionaire. That nugget of thought gets used to
dump a web developer who is honest with clients to go hire free
lancers who will suck the clients money until they finally realize the
honest person was right. This is the kind of thing that shapes an
entire industry, beyond the what kind of tags do I use to make my
headings blink kind of stuff, so I guess this is along the lines of
big picture, the web as an industry environment macro-course.

[Rubens Mariuzzo]

All these topics you pointed out, sounds great to be included in the syllabus.
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[Jerry]

Hello my name is Jerry and I'm a total newbie to the world of programming, coding and all the fancy flash stuff. I can do basic windows/linux installs though.

I follow a lot of techblogs and am very keen on emerging trends and start-ups.
Although I'm a very curious guy and willing to learn everything about them. Hopefully I'd be able to get on the program. Thanks

Jerry

[nzube solomon]

I agree with this totally. As the web really evolves to becoming an accepted frontier for work, these courses you suggested are very key. I will also add
  ..Data analysis for bussiness, market targeting and position.

  ..Best use of infographics and game dynamics for lead generation.

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[davidfx]

The topics you have mentioned here sproket is exactly what I was looking for.  I am very excited to see this appear in the January Course list.

[Pippa Buchanan]

Hessam,

I think that's a great course idea and one which I'm sure would get the interest of many participants. We'd love to have it within School of Webcraft, and it would be really good if any practical exercises were more focused on security and cryptography implementations on the internet and provided skills or knowledge which are more relevant for web developers.

Can you begin to work out a rough outline?

Please set up a draft course with more information about your idea on the P2PU site (login/create an account and select My Actions > Create a Draft Course)

Best,

Pippa

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[Shane Tomlinson]

I feel like all of these are really good ideas, even the part about the freelancers vs an "honest developer."  I am a freelancer myself and have seen both honesty and lack of it on both sides of work status aisle.  What I really like about the suggested business type courses is how relevant they could be in shaping a freelance/contractor culture that is honest, educated, hard working, but just as importantly, strong and self reliant when it comes to dealing with difficult or even down right dishonest clients.  

What I feel is important are the soft skills mentioned here - the skills that even if you are an absolute genius and are an expert at any and all of the technologies needed to develop  sites and apps, without the soft skills you aren't going to succeed.  I personally would like to see a general "dealing with clients" type of course, some best practices for whether you are a cog in a 10,000 person software machine or the sole owner of a 1 person freelance shop.  A client is anybody who depends on your work.  Some of many issues I would like to see and hear ideas on are: managing expectations(both from client->self and self->client), when to say "no", and getting the right compensation for your time AND offering services at a level where the client is happy to pay it, ensuring that a project has a definite set of milestones and will not drag on forever, how to stay focused and keep feature creep at bay, and how to become trusted not only as a developer but as a longer term partner who can help drive product direction.

Shane

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[liza duron Plata]

This is so cool!

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[Rubens Mariuzzo]

Me too!

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[Robert Kroker]

I too am a freelancer. I like your suggestion of a soft-skills course. It would be of great benefit to me to learn more ways to find clients and how to present solutions that they will be willing to pay for that will also let me keep the Internet on let alone the lights. The current market has been difficult for me. I was employed and doing freelance work on the side but am now completely freelance due to a job loss. I am looking forward to the HTML5/CSS3 course to refresh my web toolbox.

Thanks,

Robert Kroker
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[Aakash Sigdel]

I am excited for this course. Can't wait for jan 8 to come.

On 12/20/10, davidfx <dgeor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The topics you have mentioned here sproket is exactly what I was looking
> for. I am very excited to see this appear in the January Course list.
>

[Lyght]

From original post, seems this link is inaccurate or google really is
having a problem

I clicked the link below, doesnt function, i copied the entire link
due to the HTML <a> being present.

> via <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?
> formkey=dEdtSFFDeUM3MzBVTzhBd2E4anRwU0E6MQ">this form</a>.

So i figure i'll repost the link
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEdtSFFDeUM3MzBVTzhBd2E4anRwU0E6MQ

[Abhishek]

I am excited too!

On Dec 21, 4:56 pm, Aakash Sigdel <mail.aakashsig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am excited for this course. Can't wait for jan 8 to come.
>