[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[helen varley jamieson]

i am still trying to make time to look at the wordpress manual (& now 
also the civicrm manual) but time keeps eluding me ... :(

On 20/04/12 10:10 AM, Martin Kean wrote:
> What a line-up!
> What a heart you have, Mick. I will be working on (I would like to say all over, but...) Wordpress, and I will write some exercises (can I?) with badges in mind.
> Cheers, Martin.
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, adam<adam at flossmanuals.net<mailto:adam at flossmanuals.net>>  wrote:
> talked to Philipp Schmidt from P2PU briefly today about this. So, the plan is - Mick Fuzz is coming to Berlin in a few weeks and he and I will work for 3-4 days on this and create a strategy based for workbooks and badges on the discussion on the list. We will look at building a prototype and then think about how it could all be done.
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> If we wish to work with P2PU then the P2PU bunch are in Berlin 2 weeks after Mick is here so I can bring up any ideas we conjured up directly with them.
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> its mick leading the charge, me playing support and the rest of us telling him what to do ;) so make sure you get heard!
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> That would be great.
> If I'm honest, I'm doing this mainly to serve my own aims and hoping that they overlap with those of other educators in FM. It would be good to get more input and feedback.
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> I've sketched out some ideas to make this easier to comment on.
> All thoughts are welcome.
> This builds on the ideas we traded on doing a manual on social media using Free Software. I've tweaked it to include some CJ stuff too.
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> In terms of timescale I reckon we could do this by October/ November.
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> Course in Citizen Journalism
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> Goals would be to;
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>   *   look at different tools used to do Citizen Journalism
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>   *   collate course materials and step by step activities
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>   *   bring together many of the documents and networks into one coherent project
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>   *   add a political/social perspective to the work
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>   *   include the  contestational model of citizenship&  grass roots campaigning as well as more mainstream ideas of citizenship
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>   *   start with blogging and audio as a focus to help make the scope of the project more managable
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> FM manuals - flossmanuals.net<http://flossmanuals.net>
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> The following FM manuals are crucial to this work and need to be checked. (Audacity needs updating)
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>   *   Wordpress (blogging and websites)
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>   *   Audacity&  Exercises (creating radio reports)
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>   *   Edit of Basic Internet Security manuals (communicating and organising)
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> New Manuals for Use
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> These may need to be migrated from other repos (including tactical tech) so that they can be remixed with other resources.
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>   *   Status.net
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>   *   Pidgin and OTR
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>   *   IRC
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> Course includes writing and discussion spaces for interesting topics
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>   *   What is Citizen Journalism?
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>   *   Problems with CJ term ; explore the ideas of contested citizenship
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>   *   New technology its impact - the camcorder, internet&  open publishing
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> *** Planning Actions to be taken
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> Decide best location and format for exercises
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> Exercises and tests should;
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>   *   be able to link with Open Badges interface
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>   *   be linked with FM manual materials or relevant software community resources
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>   *   not interfere with core FM aims of providing manuals
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> The location of the exercises could be
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>   *    end of section FM chapters
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>   *    different FM manual of 'activities'
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>   *    separate tab in FM
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>   *    inside different learning system eg p2pu
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> Publicise existing manuals and new course materials and build community to update them and keep them updated
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>   *   FM community
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>   *   Audio producers&  citizen journalists in UK - Indymedia, HL, TTFA
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>   *   P2PU and the community there
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>   *   PVM and Community Media Association
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>   *   Tactical Tech
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>   *   Hackspaces, access space and international partners
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> Write and trial course as part of FM or with p2pu or similar partner
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>   *   Trial the use of Open Badges within FM
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>   *   Decide best vehicle for delivering course
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>   *   Edit existing resources
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>   *   Write exercises
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>   *   Create relevant links (technical and social)
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>   *   Decide scope of pilot, plan and deliver it
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