[LTER-education] Remote collaboration training

[Marty Downs]

Correction....It was Annette, not Cora, who was touting the program.

Cheers,
Marty

Please excuse typos and brevity.

Marty Downs
Director, LTER Network Office
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara
617-833-7930 (c)
805-893-7549 (o)


On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 4:41 PM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Dear Education and Outreach Managers,
>
> On our last call, several of you indicated that it would be helpful to
> have some additional training and support on how to lead and steward online
> collaborations and communities -- whether you're supporting parents in home
> schooling or trying to figure out how to run a virtual REU program.
>
> The Mozilla Foundation has developed a variety of best practices for what
> they call "working open," or what I would call effective collaboration. A
> previous version of the Mozilla course is available at The Open
> Leadership Series
> <https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/readme/>
> and I've recently learned that they are about to launch a new version
> focused on *Movement Building from Home
> <https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/new-movement-building-home-community-calls/>.
> The free series runs from April 14-May 7, 2020. *
>
> This is the basic framework behind OpenScapes
> <https://www.openscapes.org/>, led by Julia Stewart Lowndes, which Cora
> has touted and which you may have seen recently in *Scientific American
> <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/open-software-means-kinder-science/>*
> and *Nature <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03335-4>*. The
> techniques are pretty straightforward, but experiencing them in action is
> the key to really grasping their potential.
>
> The activist language can be off-putting at first for scientists, but the
> basic skills are the same, whether your community is one of health care
> workers, or urban tenants, STEM teachers, or REUs.
>
> I encourage anyone looking to build these skills to register for the
> Mozilla community calls and set aside a few hours a week over the next few
> weeks. If we get critical mass, we can also identify a time in late April
> or early May when we can get together to discuss how what you're learning
> on the Mozilla calls applies to the challenges of doing remote education at
> an LTER site.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marty
> --
> Marty Downs (she/her/hers)
> Director, LTER Network Office
>
>
>
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> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> University of California, Santa Barbara
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>
>
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