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Topic: Open Science Communication

Notes about activity

Goals

Attendees should learn popular ways for open science communities and projects to communicate with each other. They should feel comfortable initiating communication with new projects or communities that they're interested in.

Specific goals:

Learn about popular communications tools such as:
- IRC
- Issue trackers
- Mailing lists
- Source Repositories
- Also: forums, RSS feeds, social media (Twitter?),
Learn more about specific open science organizations and projects and how you can find their communication tools.
Students should begin communicating with at least one project.

Related work

This can be relatively straightforwardly adapted from the regular OSCTC communications tools presentation/activity.

Overall structure

I'd like to give these activities more context by having students apply knowledge immediately to open science projects. The presenter can use either the default project, Mozilla Science Lab, or if they're feeling adventurous, random suggestions from the crowd, to show how this is done.

Brainstorming

(None, sorry! Am adapting a lesson I created a while back and most of the brainstorming has been done previously. But please feel free to add your own thoughts/suggestions here.)

The Activity Itself

Slide Outline: (no slides yet - not yet adapted from OSCTC)

New Slide:
- Text: "Communication in Open Science"
- Presenter notes: "Now we're going to learn about common ways that projects communicate with each other. We're going to try out these communication tools ourselves, and to do that, we'll need to pick projects to learn about. I'm picking Mozilla Science Lab. Can you all pick a project? It can be Mozilla Science Lab too, or something else you're interested in."
New Slide:
- Text: "Websites & Social Media"
- Presenter notes: "Most projects have a website and social media account which allows them to share the basic goals of the project. It also usually includes information about further communication tools. I'm going to find this information for Mozilla Science Lab." Find: website, blog, twitter. "Following a social media account can be a good way to start learning about a project. There's no commitment, just a way to follow what they're doing over time." Follow Mozilla Science Lab's twitter. :)
New Slide:

Note to writer: cover benefits of mailing list, benefits of forum, discourse (list/forum option), incorporate joining (and unsubscribing) from a list if you want, cover different types of list, looking at archives, etc.

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 === Related work ===
+This can be relatively straightforwardly adapted from the regular OSCTC [https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC/Tools communications tools presentation/activity].
-''List relevant curricula from other sources, activities, posts, video, etc.  Add notes about material that inspires you, or that you might want to reuse.''
 === Overall structure ===
+I'd like to give these activities more context by having students apply knowledge immediately to open science projects.  The presenter can use either the default project, Mozilla Science Lab, or if they're feeling adventurous, random suggestions from the crowd, to show how this is done.
-''Mention any structural constraints.  Do you want to make long & short versions of this?  Does it have any knowledge dependencies?  etc.''
 === Brainstorming ===
+(None, sorry!  Am adapting a lesson I created a while back and most of the brainstorming has been done previously.  But please feel free to add your own thoughts/suggestions here.)
-''This is the place for ideas about what to include in the presentation/activity.  I find it useful to use the goals above as prompts for brainstorming.''
 == The Activity Itself ==
+Slide Outline: (no slides yet - not yet adapted from OSCTC)
-''Here is where you provide details about the activity in progress - I prefer to write out slide outlines/step by step instructions.''
+* New Slide:
+** Text: "Communication in Open Science"
+** Presenter notes: "Now we're going to learn about common ways that projects communicate with each other.  We're going to try out these communication tools ourselves, and to do that, we'll need to pick projects to learn about.  I'm picking Mozilla Science Lab.  Can you all pick a project?  It can be Mozilla Science Lab too, or something else you're interested in."
+* New Slide:
+** Text: "Websites & Social Media"
+** Presenter notes:  "Most projects have a website and social media account which allows them to share the basic goals of the project.  It also usually includes information about further communication tools.  I'm going to find this information for Mozilla Science Lab."  Find: website, blog, twitter.  "Following a social media account can be a good way to start learning about a project.  There's no commitment, just a way to follow what they're doing over time."  Follow Mozilla Science Lab's twitter.  :)
+* New Slide:
+Note to writer: cover benefits of mailing list, benefits of forum, discourse (list/forum option), incorporate joining (and unsubscribing) from a list if you want, cover different types of list, looking at archives, etc.