[Updates/Notes] 20180705

[joeyklee]

Meeting notes with @vanevery:

• One idea is to collect an "intro to machine learning with project X" via ML5 as a first test case to see what might be a good way to handle organizing coherent content
• We might try to come up with some small web apps that allow for the creation of organized learning pathways w/out a full blown app (e.g. dropping a json file in a web interface that produces a learning pathway and allows for commenting and editing + gets added to a searchable interface)

Meeting with @blahah:

• Rik is working on a clever system to create and manage peer-to-peer community access to data and information
• One possibility is to use that infrastructure as a way to share, manage, and collaborate on learning pathways
• I can sketch out on paper and code what kind of UI/UX we might be interested in regarding the DIY syllabus project and do a feedback session with Rik about possibilities

[joeyklee]

Quick update for the end of the week: 20180706

Currently working through wireframes and workflows for browsing and creating learning pathways, building blocks, and tagged resources in a web app/interface. Mostly right now using this as an opportunity to start thinking about information architecture and flow through the service in the case that we were to have our own homebrewed solution. Of course this is def. a heavier handed approach to this project, but I think it is a good exercise to see what an ideal case might be, so we can work towards that as a goal whether it is through smaller software interventions, etc. Still need to resolve a bunch of things, but here's just an overview image for now.

[joeyklee]

Screenflow

I've been working on some wireframes to imagine what an application might look like that for our context that:

• handles the creation of "Learning pathways" from building blocks and tagged resources
• allows for browsing and searching of project based learning
• serves as a kind of portfolio for creating and developing learning materials

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fxlmlrqK9ToM4nNNNKgsQFruHHxCQNwp97qA0woWZOA/edit?usp=sharing

@shiffman @vanevery @blahah @matamalaortiz

Notes

Maybe this sparks some ideas for discussion about a longer term goals in terms of being able to really easily and quickly being able to develop individualized learning pathways for students while they develop project ideas.

In the short term, I will try to chop up these functionalities into some bite sized chunks that might be able to live on their own on the web somehow. One example might be a little web app that will accepts a link to a github repo with a MAKESYLLABUS.json file in the root directory and it will build write into that repo an syllabus.html with a nicely structured "how to" build the project in that repo like so:

[joeyklee]

Closing issue ==> moving all the [Updates/Notes] to https://github.com/knittingmachine/knittingmachine-docs/blob/master/updates-and-notes.md