From heidi.ellis at wne.edu Thu Nov 10 16:45:44 2022 From: heidi.ellis at wne.edu (Heidi Ellis) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:45:44 +0000 Subject: [TOS] Another TOS Talk!!! Message-ID: Hi Folks, 4:00 PM Eastern Time, Tuesday November 15th Our next TOS Time will be led by Jan Pearce from Berea College. Jan has multiple years of experience both contributing to and helping undergraduate students to contribute to Runestone Academy. Runestone is a collection of interactive open source texts in the STEM area offering a database backend that helps professors better help their students in a number of easy ways. Jan will talk about Runestone Academy, her new textbook on open source, open source contribution more generally, and on teaching open source contribution to novices. The discussion questions will include: What might you hope would go into such a textbook? What do you see as the challenges?? What do you see as the opportunities? Contact me (ellis at wne.edu) if interested and I'll send a link to the Zoom room. Hope to see you next Wednesday!! Heidi From glebovaov at gmail.com Thu Nov 10 19:47:24 2022 From: glebovaov at gmail.com (Olga Glebova) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:47:24 -0500 Subject: [TOS] Another TOS Talk!!! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Heidi, I'm interested in this talk. Olga On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:48 AM Heidi Ellis wrote: > Hi Folks, > > 4:00 PM Eastern Time, Tuesday November 15th > > Our next TOS Time will be led by Jan Pearce from Berea College. Jan has > multiple years of experience both contributing to and helping > undergraduate students to contribute to Runestone Academy. Runestone is > a collection of interactive open source texts in the STEM area offering > a database backend that helps professors better help their students in a > number of easy ways. Jan will talk about Runestone Academy, her new > textbook on open source, open source contribution more generally, and on > teaching open source contribution to novices. The discussion questions > will include: What might you hope would go into such a textbook? What do > you see as the challenges? What do you see as the opportunities? > > Contact me (ellis at wne.edu) if interested and I'll send a link to the > Zoom room. > > Hope to see you next Wednesday!! > > Heidi > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos at teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From heidi.ellis at wne.edu Mon Nov 14 13:39:25 2022 From: heidi.ellis at wne.edu (Heidi Ellis) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:39:25 +0000 Subject: [TOS] Come listen to student contributions to Runestone! Message-ID: <6c2c780a-7da5-40ae-b483-99873c47a824@wne.edu> Hi Folks, We will be having our next TOS Time tomorrow, 4:00 PM Eastern Time, Tuesday November 15th The talk will be led by Jan Pearce from Berea College. Jan has multiple years of experience both contributing to and helping undergraduate students to contribute to Runestone Academy. Runestone is a collection of interactive open source texts in the STEM area offering a database backend that helps professors better help their students in a number of easy ways. Jan will talk about Runestone Academy, her new textbook on open source, open source contribution more generally, and on teaching open source contribution to novices. The discussion questions will include: What might you hope would go into such a textbook? What do you see as the challenges?? What do you see as the opportunities? Contact me (ellis at wne.edu) if interested and I'll send a link to the Zoom room. Hope to see you next Wednesday!! Heidi From heidi.ellis at wne.edu Tue Nov 22 01:14:37 2022 From: heidi.ellis at wne.edu (Heidi Ellis) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:14:37 +0000 Subject: [TOS] SIGCSE Affiliated Event! Message-ID: <80bfd1ba-32b6-b8f3-b4f2-f2a99e11b75c@wne.edu> Hi Folks, Below is an opportunity to collaborate with fellow FOSS educators at SIGCSE. Enjoy! Heidi SIGCSE 2023 Affiliated Event: HFOSS Education Curious about Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS)? Want to involve your students in projects for social good? Not sure how to get started? Join us at this SIGCSE 2023 Affiliated Event in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Overview Student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) provides an opportunity for learning software engineering technical and professional skills while also engaging students with computing for social good. Experience indicates that faculty are interested in employing HFOSS but also find this teaching approach challenging, especially at first. To better support instructors, HFOSS educators are exploring ways to provide better support and control for instructors taking initial steps in using HFOSS with students. This full-day event will consist of morning and afternoon sessions that can be registered for separately. The focus for each session will be as follows: POSSE Round-up (morning) - The morning session will provide an opportunity for faculty members engaged in HFOSS education to present and discuss their experiences. Attendees will include prior attendees of the Professors Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) and other faculty who have some familiarity with open source software development. HFOSS Education Approaches (afternoon) ? The afternoon session will be suitable for any instructor interested in HFOSS education, whether experienced or not. The afternoon session will explore tools and opportunities that can help faculty expand HFOSS education. This will include: * Instructor-Led HFOSS Projects ? This topic will focus on development of instructor-led HFOSS projects. This model of HFOSS education employs HFOSS projects that are started by and managed by one or more academic institutions. Examples include Libre Food Pantry, Open Energy Dashboard, FarmData, and Submitty. Presentation and discussion will cover the status of these projects and issues and opportunities for starting or joining an instructor-led HFOSS project. * HFOSS Education Kits ? This topic will cover development of HFOSS kits as an approach to making HFOSS education more manageable. The goal of an HFOSS kit is to provide an isolated environment built with artifacts from an active HFOSS project that can be used to learn and practice software skills. For example, a kit containing a code base, issue tracker, and revision control history could support learning related to version control. HFOSS kits can provide the complexity and scale of the real project, and introduce students to computing for social good. A kit can also provide better predictability and control for the instructor, including an ability to reset the environment to a known state. Please visit http://foss2serve.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2023_Affiliated_Event for the agenda and https://forms.gle/Cz49VjtPQZEaEQrr5 for the registration link. Organizers * Gregory Hislop, Drexel University * Heidi Ellis, Western New England University * Stoney Jackson, Western New England University * Lori Postner, Nassau Community College * Darci Burdge, Nassau Community College * Grant Braught, Dickinson College * Karl Wurst, Worcester State University * Steven Huss-Lederman, Open Energy Dashboard * Wes Turner, Rensselaer Polytechnic University * Cam Macdonell, MacEwan University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: