Using Slack to Enable Intercollegiate Collaboration in the Moodle Community
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USING SLACK TO ENABLEINTERCOLLEGIATE COLLABORATION
IN THE MOODLE COMMUNITYCharles Fulton (@mackensen)
WHAT'S CLAMP?Association of small liberal arts colleges dedicated tosupporting Moodle environments at those institutionsGrew out of NITLE-organized camps and workshops and aMellon grantEntirely self-funded and self-governedHosts twice-yearly unconference-style "Hack/Doc Fests"
http://www.clamp-it.org
COLLABORATION IS HARDDifferences between you and your inter-institutional
colleagues:
1. Institution2. Schedule3. Tools
EXISTING TOOLSMoodle forumsRedmineJabber/XMPPGoogle DriveGoogle HangoutsTwitter
Google Hangouts means never knowing how to start a meeting.4:06 PM - 10 Jun 2015
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Jared Spool @jmspool
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INEFFICIENCIESThe Google services require Google accounts; Googlehandles multiple identities poorlyNone of the tools provide strong persistent non-publicgroup chat
WHAT'S SLACK?"The prodigal child of IRC and Gmail, Slack is, primarily, a
group-messaging tool with a memory."
Scott Rosenberg, Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack
CONTINUITY"Since Slack does mobile and notifications right..."
Jeffrey Glusman, Don't provide this perk? You're doing itwrong!
WHAT INTEGRATES WITH SLACK?Google Drive and HangoutsDropboxTwitterRSS
plus a couple dozen more, with an API to boot...
IN CLOSING"Above all, it's a considerate program: It does things the wayyou’d want it to, often without your having to tell it — and if
you want it to do something differently, it almost always letsyou."
Scott Rosenberg, Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack
LINKS
Jeffrey Glusman,
Scott Rosenberg,
Tim Urban, Andrew Wilkinson,
Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle ProjectSlack.com
Don't provide this perk? You're doing itwrong!
Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack
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