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Creating Courseware for Developers: Choosing Topics
Greetings, Make WordPress Training! I’ve been given the amazing opportunity to shepherd the Advanced or, more aptly named, Developer curriculum into existence. I think shepherd is the most fitting term here, because the only way that we’re going to end up with curriculum that hits all the buttons that it needs to is if we have feedback from…
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Agenda for August 9, 2016 Meeting
We had some good discussions last week about our progress and team morale in general. This week’s meeting and next week’s meeting will be really important for getting us some clearer ideas about what we’re doing and why. Join us tomorrow in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/.…
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Recap of August 2, 2016 Meeting
Slack Log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account) Welcome We had a lot of new folks today as well as a bunch of our regulars. For those who…
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User Experience of Training Team Make Site
Folks in the training team have collectively provided bits of feedback about the current structure of the Make site for the team for a little while. This conversation turned into more of an in-depth evaluation of the site and it’s purpose at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one…
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Agenda for August 2, 2016 Meeting
Join us in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ at 19:00 UTC, which is TWO hours later than usual. We’re starting to have more structural conversations about the website, so let’s focus on the teacher resources as well…
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Training Feedback Update
After going through the collected lesson feedback with Elena, we’ve found that there is really one major piece of feedback that we should discuss. There was a bit of feedback around the lesson plans being hard to decipher when it comes to methodology, preferred next steps, and teaching styles. We have talked in the past…
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Recap of July 26, 2016 Meeting
Lesson Plans and Copy Editing Updates: @epetrashen has finished Intro to woocommerce, Dashboard Icons and What is Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Lesson plans. @meaganhanes is…
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Agenda for July 26, 2016 Meeting
We’ll be in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ at 19:00 UTC, which is TWO hours later than usual. We have a handful of new folks from various contributor days, so let’s cover some ground on our basic…
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Recap of July 19, 2016 Meeting
Slack Log (Requires SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account) Welcome! Update on WCNYC Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they…
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Agenda for July 19, 2016 Meeting
We’ll be in the #training channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ at 19:00 UTC, which is TWO hours later than usual. Let’s check post-contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can…