[Edu-sig] PyCon Education Summit Update

[kirby urner]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> If you're interested, there's a video of yesterday evening's Google
> "hangout" meeting where I get to talk to a bunch of teachers (and even
> a couple of students) about what we're up to at this year's PyconUK in
> a few week's time. Many thanks to Alan 'teknoteacher' O'Donohoe for
> organising and hosting it:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqQklpZXGc

Quite an interesting video I'd say.  I'm about half way through.
Google Hangout is new in 2012.  Growing up, we envisioned these
talking head meetings (all the science fiction movies have them) but
now that we really do, it's interesting to see the nuances.

There's a sense of a movie director and editor, even through it's just
software that detects who is making the most noise.  That doesn't
always work, so you'll hear one speaker will you're looking at
another.  That gives the sense of a director making editing choices,
making POV shots and so on.  It's also interesting to have all these
talking heads lined up but not really looking into the camera, as
they're looking at their own screens -- a different aesthetic from
television, which wants to get the anchor person looking straight at
the audience.  To have the one guy ironing -- that's fantastic.  Nice
touch.

Good ethnography, right at the interface between a teaching /
classroom youth-focused group, and software developers, with basic
namespace exchange going on, i.e. meanings of basic terms.  What's a
"Dojo"?  What's a "sprint".  When the word "fork" is casually used, as
in "we forked the dojo pattern" (paraphrase) I wonder how many
non-geeks miss the meaning i.e. "to fork" is said without 2nd thought
by those who use version control, whereas in many walks of life it's
like "what's version control?".

Bravo in any case.  Good video.  Google Hangout is a great resource,
I'm persuaded.

Kirby