On this week community call we were making the final push to finish the skills under the competencies of version 1.5 of the Web Literacy Map. We started off with Ian sharing a Cory Doctorow talk, but then dove write into the work.
Doug was on personal time off but checked in throughout the day and helped to set up the etherpad (learning to take PTO like an American I guess).
We first reviewed the activity on Git as we shifted to asynchronous work to ensure Version 1.5 can ship by the end of Q1. The team is getting more comfortable with filing and responding to issues on Git and we encourage everyone to visit the issues to track our progress,
We first reviewed the sharing competency as we noted earlier that this was our most problematic competency. Too much overlap existed with other competencies in version 1.1 of the Map.
The following skills were proposed in GitHub:
Contributing content and finding content for the benefit of others (Greg)
Creating, curating and circulating web resources to elicit peer feedback (Greg)
Understanding the needs of audience in order to make relevant contributions to a community (Greg)
Creating and using a system to distribute web resources to others (Greg)
Identifying when it is safe to contribute content in a variety of situations on the web (Tim)
Ian and Mikko suggested that creating a system to share should be ordered as the first skill. The final list of skills included.
Creating and using a system to distribute web resources to others.
Contributing and finding content for the benefit of others.
Creating, curating, and circulating web resources to elicit peer feedback.
Understanding the needs of audiences in order to make relevant contributions to a community.
Identifying when it is safe to contribute content in a variety of situations on the web.
Next we turned to Search
Developing questions related to your goal and knowing when these questions are answered. (proposed)
Using and revising keywords to make your web searches more efficient.(approved)
Evaluating search results to determine if the information is relevant to your needs. (edited needs approval)
Finding real-time or time-sensitive information using a range of search techniques. (approved)
Discovering information and resources by asking people within social networks (proposed)
These were discussed extensively. Gadit and Tim were looking for clarification on the questioning skill. We spent a good amount of time deciding if formulating questions was part of a searching skill. The group decided to keep the skill. The skills were edited to only include third person language and they were approved.
Next we turned to Composing for the Web
We began with the following proposed skills -
Inserting hyperlinks into a web page (defined)
Embedding multimedia content into a web page (defined)
Creating web resources in ways appropriate to the medium/genre (defined)
Identifying and using HTML tags (defined)
Creating and controlling a space to publish on the Web (Doug)
We debated the last skill. Specifically if you create a space and why you have to control the space. Laura brought up the issue of how we started on hosted spaces and moved to open spaces. Greg argued for trying to push people out of silos and on to the open web. Mikko and Gadit supported a similar position.
In the end we voted on:
Setting up and maintaining a space to publish on the web+1+1+1+1+1
establishing, acquiring+1+1, and setting up
maintaining controlling +1
The skills under the competency were then set.
Next we turned to remix, but once we realized that we could not come to agreement we decided to abandon the issue in kicked it to asynchronous debate. Ian argued for renaming the competency synthesis. Greg argued to move the synthesis skills booted from search to remix. He felt you are making something new wit someone else idea. Gadit felt strong that, "Remixing is under building - it should have a very specific 'publishing' aspect," and therefore should not include "in your head" skills. Laura questions whether we were discussing a web literacy skill or a life skill.,
There was also debate whether attribution fit under remix or under open practice. We did agree that the skill on remixing open content should be changed to, "Identifying and using content that can be ethically remixed." This separated the skill from the open practices competency.
We also turned to the skill, "Creating something new on the web using existing resources" and felt it was too close to a new remix we added: "Shifting context and meaning by creating derivative content." There is a current debate on GitHub whether these are similar skills and only one is needed or if both skills are needed under the remix competency.
We tried then to turn to credibility and we nailed down a skill before time was up.
Wrapping Up
We have almost finished Version 1.5 of the Web Literacy Map. Here is our current state of progress
Finished competencies:
Search
Sharing
Composing for the web
Navigation
Web Mechanics
Designing for the web
Accessibility
Community Participation
Unresolved competencies:
Credibility
Security
Remixing
Coding/scripting
Collaborating
Privacy
Open Practices
Final Steps
It was decided to host a hack session on Monday 5pm UTC (10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm CET / 10.30pm IST). The group also decided to abandon the spreadsheet for work (though Ian will update it) and just finish off our work on Github.
Please visit the meta-issue if you would like to contribute.
