[python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Leo Huckvale]

Hi all,

 At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I and
a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested building a
forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to interact. The main
aims of this would be to provide somewhere:

- where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any*
level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)
- to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
- to build a community around teaching Python in schools

 It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF mantle,
and that there are already plans afoot to build an education site there.

 One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get a
few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.

 Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar
projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer!

Best regards,
Leo Huckvale
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Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Ryan Pepper]

On Tue, 20 Sep, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Leo Huckvale  
wrote:

Hi all,

 At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, 
I and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested 
building a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to 
interact. The main aims of this would be to provide somewhere:


- where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at 
*any* level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)

- to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
- to build a community around teaching Python in schools

 It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF 
mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education 
site there.


 One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can 
get a few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.


 Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar 
projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or 
developer!


Best regards,
Leo Huckvale


Hi there,

Not sure if you're aware of it already (it might have been mentioned 
during the session; I wasn't at PyCon) but an organisation which might 
be of interest to you is Computing at Schools [1] which does a number 
of things like providing resources, offers courses (such as in Python) 
and which offers scholarships for people looking to move into computing 
teaching. It has a forum which anyone can sign up for and there are 
some discussions there with teachers, and it's part of the British 
Computer Society.  Nicholas Tollervey who posts here has some 
involvement as he organised some Python training for the micro:bit for 
computing school teachers through their network earlier in the year.


[1] https://www.computingatschool.org.uk

Best wishes,

Ryan Pepper
PhD Student
Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling
University of Southampton
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Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Nigel Kendrick]

Hi Leo,

Count me in.

There was talk of setting up a STEM-oriented community on
https://www.stem.org.uk/ but I can't see any developments on that front
(yet?)

Nigel Kendrick
STEM Ambassador.

On 20 September 2016 at 09:16, Leo Huckvale  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I
> and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested building
> a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to interact. The main
> aims of this would be to provide somewhere:
>
> - where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any*
> level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)
> - to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
> - to build a community around teaching Python in schools
>
>  It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF
> mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education site
> there.
>
>  One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get a
> few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.
>
>  Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar
> projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer!
>
> Best regards,
> Leo Huckvale
>
>
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Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

The Python Software Foundation is in the process of setting up a
pythonineducation.org website (or pyedu.io).

Perhaps a Slack channel would be an appropriate solution for this forum?

N.

On 20/09/16 09:16, Leo Huckvale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I
> and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested
> building a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to
> interact. The main aims of this would be to provide somewhere:
> 
> - where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any*
> level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)
> - to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
> - to build a community around teaching Python in schools
> 
>  It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF
> mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education
> site there.
> 
>  One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get
> a few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.
> 
>  Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar
> projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer!
> 
> Best regards,
> Leo Huckvale
> 
> 
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Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Tim Golden]

("Forum" used below to mean any technical solution for people to ask &
answer questions)

Nicholas jumped in before I could ask him what the status of the
pyedu.io initiative is. My own belief is that, for such a forum [using
whatever technical solution] to be valuable or even viable, it should
have a certain "official" backing. And it needs to have a certain quorum
of support from a core team of developers and educators.

Entirely unsurprisingly, this has come up at every year's Teacher track
at PyCon UK. I would be delighted if this year it comes about. And I'd
be more than happy to advertise and support it in any way I can. But it
risks becoming a graveyard of one-off posts or "Is anybody there...?" if
it doesn't have at least enough people to give some kind of answer.

I speak as someone who's a moderator or list owner on nearly a dozen
python.org properties, including python-list, python-win32, webmaster@
and planet@. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it does need two groups
of people (who might well overlap). A group which can "manage" the
forum, in whatever way it requires: moderating posts, confirming
accounts, dealing with administrivia. And a pool of people which is big
enough that any question can be addressed, even if by a polite brush-off
or a redirect to some more suitable resource, within a reasonable space
of time. That "big enough" doesn't actually have to be very big.

This latter group should arise naturally from the community of people
which such a forum builds up. And I'm not suggesting that any more
formal process is necessary. However, if *everyone* involved in the
forum is a drive-by questioneer, then more questions will be asked than
answered and the forum will be significantly less useful.

I have no idea if this is the kind of thing planned for the
Python-in-Education site, but I personally think that having that badge
of "approval" from the PSF would help people coalesce around the
"official" forum rather than scatter in a dozen different directions.
However, I haven't been on any of the Cas forums which may be where many
teachers look or start.

TJG

On 20/09/2016 10:43, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
> The Python Software Foundation is in the process of setting up a
> pythonineducation.org website (or pyedu.io).
> 
> Perhaps a Slack channel would be an appropriate solution for this forum?
> 
> N.
> 
> On 20/09/16 09:16, Leo Huckvale wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I
>> and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested
>> building a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to
>> interact. The main aims of this would be to provide somewhere:
>>
>> - where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any*
>> level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)
>> - to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
>> - to build a community around teaching Python in schools
>>
>>  It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF
>> mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education
>> site there.
>>
>>  One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get
>> a few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.
>>
>>  Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar
>> projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Leo Huckvale
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [python-uk] Educator-Developer forum

[Daniel Moisset]

Hi Leo, feel free to email me when you have more details

Best,
  D.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Leo Huckvale  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  At the "Adopt a Teacher/Developer" session at PyCon UK last weekend, I
> and a couple of other developers met with a teacher who suggested building
> a forum/portal/Q&A site for educators and developers to interact. The main
> aims of this would be to provide somewhere:
>
> - where educators could go and ask questions from developers (at *any*
> level, without fear, and preferably at short notice)
> - to continue "ed-dev" dialogue from PyCon throughout the year
> - to build a community around teaching Python in schools
>
>  It was suggested to me that this might fit somewhere under the PSF
> mantle, and that there are already plans afoot to build an education site
> there.
>
>  One of our number is currently setting up an Askbot site, so we can get a
> few developers and educators on board and see how it goes.
>
>  Please get in touch if you have any comments or know of any similar
> projects, or if you want to join in the fun as an educator or developer!
>
> Best regards,
> Leo Huckvale
>
>
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