Category: p2pu-webcraft
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Understanding Challenges
Lately I’ve been following along with P2PU by the mailing list as I haven’t been able to commit to Thursday’s calls. This has allowed for some deeper reflection slightly external to the core community. I’ve been chewing over the idea of the P2PU Challenge model for the past weeks, trying to work out how it…
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Peer-driven learning: We ain’t cracked that nut.
I tend to wait until things are near perfect or needed urgently before I get motivated and brave enough to share them with others i.e. serious procrastination. So the thoughts I want to share here have been steeping and growing for some time. Luckily the University Project‘s Universities: Past and Present event is happening this…
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Exploring the Social: Challenges of Peer Learning
I wanted to respond to Philipp’s post about the use of challenges within School of Webcraft and to gather thoughts that have been developing over the last month or so. One of the changes that happened within the School of Webcraft at the same time as my transition out of a formal role with the…
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1) Collect Users! 3) Output Coders!
[This post is part of a response to Mark Surman’s “Mozilla as Teacher“. In the first part I suggest that “Mozilla as educator” may be a better framing, in this I discuss just what Mozilla can help people learn.] Often when Mozilla discusses teaching and education the emphasis is on helping people learn how to…
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Being Educators: Mozilla and Me
There’s ongoing discussion about Mozilla’s role as a ‘teacher’ and how it fits alongside that of “inventor”. In a recent blog post, Mark Surman wanted to find out whether “Mozilla as teacher” resonates and what other terms might be appropriate. Having spent the past year with Mozilla helping people learn, I wanted to respond, both with…
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Herding Passionate Cats: The Role of Facilitator in a Peer Learning Process
Over at Mozzadrella, Vanessa, a fellow P2PU community member has been writing about the challenges of supporting learner responsibility and trying to be a facilitator, but not a teacher. I started to write a comment, but it emerged into a rare, spontaneous blogpost. Expecting learners to take responsibility for their own learning is a built-in value…
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Handing on the reins of School of Webcraft: do you want to work on the project?
After a year of working on the School of Webcraft project, it’s time to announce that at the end of August I’ll leave SoW as a formal organiser and make the transition to being a volunteer community member of both P2PU and Mozilla. That’s one of the things I love about open and free culture:…
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School of Webcraft Update – Study Groups, Badges and Derbys! Oh My!
School of Webcraft has a new home! As part of the P2PU community, the School of Webcraft made the transition to our new, custom built Lernanta platform last weekend. Hooray! From all of us here at School of Webcraft we’d like to thank P2PU’s Technical Lead, Zuzel and our amazing team of volunteer contributors for…
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What Projects Can You Setup in School of Webcraft?
If you’ve been keeping up to date with School of Webcraft and the P2PU learning community that Webcraft is a part of – you’ll have noticed a lot of changes. Not only is P2PU developing a new website that looks better and makes it easier to learn with others, we’ve also referring to different ways…
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School of Webcraft Update May 24th 2011
Twice a month we bring you updates on School of Webcraft, Mozilla‘s free web-development training community organised in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). We also use this update to let you know about the great new features that have been released in P2PU’s new site. School of Webcraft’s new home at P2PU! Groups…
Pippa Buchanan 