Workshop Planning

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This page is for planning the goals, outcomes, and activities for the workshop.

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Workshop Outcomes

From a discussion between Matt Greenwolfe, Chad Dorsey, and Bruce Mason, 5/2/2007: The following outcomes for the workshop are suggested.

  1. Participants will develop an understanding of Wikis, their usefulness, how they work, and what effort will be needed to get this started and keep it operating.
  2. Participants will explore issues of digital libraries, metadata and reuse of resources, and will develop an understanding of the benefits of existing resources and tools.
  3. Participants will begin the process of creating the editorial workflow for the Modeling Wiki.
  4. Participants will generate a definition of the conditions for creating and sustaining a working Modeling Wiki community.
  5. Participants will be excited about the prospects of this project and spread this excitement to colleagues.
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Potential Activities

The following activities may be useful for meeting these goals:

  • Developing a document over the course of the workshop as a hands-on activity to show the workings of a wiki
    • Could start the first day, and continue throughout the first workshop day.
    • Could be an example to look at and discuss after a day or so to examine process of working with a document

Possible ideas:

  • A piece of the modeling materials themselves
  • A letter to the modeling community about the work being done
  • An introductory document to the modeling wiki project
  • Notes on how to write a good _______ (set of teacher notes, problem set, etc.)


  1. Go through examples of wiki-fied curricular materials
    1. Have participants access and explore example materials
    2. Have participants rate those materials (or disuss a good rating system)
    3. Have participants examine the results of the rating as they would be presented to the review board (or discuss how those results should be presented to the review board)
    4. Have participants modify example materials
    5. Have participants load some of their own material
  2. Use existing digital library tools
    1. NSDL strand map
    2. ComPADRE Filing Cabinet
    3. ComPADRE and MERLOT review tools
    4. Metadata creation tools attached to the Modeling Wiki
  3. Create an editorial working group
    1. Introduce the tasks this group will undertake
    2. Determine the timeframe and extent of group's next collaboration or meetings
  4. Discussions of the needs of the modeling community
  5. Discussions of methods to involve many people and disseminate these efforts
    1. Introduce and discuss the various roles involved in wiki creation and maintenance
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Discussion Topics

In addition to the outcomes described above, the following points for discussion were suggested:

  • Who has access to the materials? Will people need to have completed a modeling workshop?
  • Events at the AAPT meeting and other venues
  • Licensing issues (Creative Commons) and describe what the the license means.
  • Metadata issues - What information is needed and how will "Models" be introduced as a metadata field?
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Agenda Items

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  1. Thursday
    1. 10am - 1pm: Arrive at Boulderado on Supershuttle from DIA
    2. 1:15pm: Van from NSDL arrives at Boulderado lobby to transport participants to UCAR foothills lab #2.
    3. 1:30 - 2:30: Lunch/socializing (Comet classroom, UCAR foothills lab)
    4. 2:30: Meeting Begins
      • Introduction to wikis and different project partners
      • Project Overview - Why a modeling wiki? - (Matt)
             Basic broadstroke picture of what's going on
      • Grand vision for an online modeling curriculum - (Janet w/ Matt, Bruce and Chad)
      • Introduction to ComPADRE and its components - (Bruce)
      • Introduction to NSDL/Digital Libraries - (Susan or Eileen)
    5. 5:00: End of day's meeting. Return to hotel.
    6. 6:30: Dinner - Colorado Chautauqua Dining Hall
  2. Friday
    1. 8:15: Meet in hotel lobby. Van ride to UCAR Foothills lab - Comet classroom
    2. 8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast
    3. 9:00: Introduction to how to edit materials in a wiki - (Bruce)
    4. Enter Energy unit into the standard materials section of the wiki (Practice wiki skills, group edits, etc.)
    5. Show available tools to upload images and converters (caveat that these are very rough and cutting and pasting are recommended - (Bruce)
    6. Editing of more energy materials
    7. Introduction to LaTEX formula editing - (Chad)
    8. Final round of editing energy materials
    9. 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch - UCAR Foothills lab
    10. Debriefing - evaluation of tools and learning process. How can we spread these skills to the modeling community?
    11. 3:00: Break - walk & talk & ... ice cream!
    12. Structure of wiki
      • Organization of materials and pages
      • Contributed materials and their relation to the standard materials (Variations on existing materials, separate sections or linked? Parallel threads?)
      • Wiki workflow and community: What do we want to encourage people to do? (e.g. Collaborate on one wiki version, create lots of individual variations, some combination of both?)
    13. 5:00: End of day's session. Return to hotel.
    14. 6:30: Dinner at local Boulder restaurants
  3. Saturday
    1. 8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast
    2. Adding contributed materials - Variation on existing worksheet, Parallel threads (e.g. physics first), New materials (e.g. waves or E&M) - just using standard media-wiki
    3. Revisit wiki structure implications of adding contributed materials on structure, workflow, etc. -- Debrief
    4. 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch (UCAR Foothills Lab)
    5. Introduction to digital libraries (Bruce, John Weatherly, & Susan or Eileen)
      • Introduction to "strand map" as in NSDL's links to national standards, ComPADRE Personal Collections, metadata standards and sharing, other cool stuff
    6. Discussion: metadata and the Modeling Wiki
      • Evaluate existing relationship data and discuss. Any additions?
      • Capturing uncaptured metadata - (Things that modelers 'just know' about worksheets, units, etc.
      • Interaction between endorsed version and wiki version
    7. 3:00: Break ... cookies and fruit
    8. Discussion - navigational tools (such as floating side bar), additional features if interest
    9. 5:00: End of meeting. Return to hotel
    10. 6:30: Dinner & social Walnut Brewery (Wiki roles in the modeling community, inspired by Wikipatterns)
  4. Sunday
    1. 8:30 - 9:00 breakfast
    2. Rating worksheets and feedback to editorial board
    3. Editorial board development of endorsed version
      • Operation of the editorial board
    4. Future tasks for group
    5. 12:00: Lunch. Participants depart on SuperShuttle to DIA.
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