Rita, Fabian, Anja, Jess, Amber, Brezo, and Karan
- How did you all meet?
- How long have you been meeting for?
5 Persons of our :) Fabian, Anja, Jess, Amber and Rita. Brezo is traveling, and Karan had piror commitments.
- How do you organize your meetings:
- Do you have a format? Is it free flowing or structured?
- Free flow - we have no strict structure learning structure. Other than we meet weekly, on a Saturday between 3/4hrs each sesssion.
- In the event one of us have an coding, or learning issue - even something from their everyday coding job she/he can raise that at any time. We offer as a group, our perspectives, support and help in solving the issue.
- but when we are learning together for a course (react / gutenberg) we developed a routine / schedule base on the
- Example: Advanced Gutenberg
- 2 Chapters Video for one week
- Practical coding on the second
- alternating
- Slack Channel
- Google Hangout
- GitHub Individual Accounts & Organisation
- VS Code - Live Share. PHPStorm
- Twitter, medium, Coding sites, podcasts and individuals
- When topics rise
- Or we find out about interesting topics - we ask people around us to help/explain the topic, to share their knowledge, expertise and experiences. i.e. Like React hooks, PHP, WPScripts, ESLint, working with the new
WP block editor
- WP Code standards, difficult to understand documentation, git, version control, markup etc.
- No
- We meet weekly or as often as need given certin circomstances. For instance the JS-Hackathon
- Wehen we decide to take our courses collectively
- Keep each other motivated and intrested in learning the new material. We help each other through group discussion confussing or difficut areas or topics to grasp. For example: State in React
- We all work with and around the WP Community. So we come pre wired towards "acceptable behavior." We belive in, and practice both individully and collectivlly the 'WP Code-of-Conduct.'
- Value & support each other. We value each others time, participation, family and the group relationships.
- Safe space - where you can be vulnerable, be supported, experience, and learn. (You don't need to knowing everything)
- Yes! Both - individual and group goals:
- enable each of us to talk about our personal goals/and results so far. Persoanl assesment.
- creating a safe space to learn with confidence and support
- small learning group creates an intimacy (that peer to peer suport with out the one-up-manship
or comdepitive presure)
- facilates learning 2 ways. 1) two person teams and as a group review. We learn along side each
other, grow and share.
- The intmacy and trust helps each individule practice more, share more and grow more, especially
where there maybe knowledge and or experience gaps.
- It has helped us to stay motivated and learning
- Reduce procrastination
- Provides accountability, especailly to the group
- Continuity in learning - we meet every Saturday. 3/4 hrs. The winter months longer (because its easier).
- Achieve more together than we would on our own
- by learning together
- by sharring
- by teaching each others
- by supporting each other
- by challenging each other without making members feel uncomfortable or stupid
- by adding all our different perspectives to problem solving
- What has been our biggest accomplishment as a group?
- What was your biggest takeaway from the hackathon?
- And how did you organize the logistics of collaborating on projects -- in teams?
- Do you think collaboration is a more successful way of tackling self-learning online? Yes! Please explain.
- How has being part of this group affected coding and proffesional skills
- Personal thoughts/opinions (2/3 sentences) - personal anwser from each participant
- The Value of People and the relationships we build
- Apart from learning to code we're available to support each other
- Keep each other informed share links, posts articles videos in Slack
- Share connections friends or people we know and experience from conferences
- videos, and other learning material that maybe helpful to the group or individul.
We share whatever we think might be helpful to the group. Or may have experienced (from WordCamps and conferences)
- friendship, acceptance, support, motivation,
What would be your top three takeways/tips to share with our audience -- when considering or committing to a study group?
- Get your support group on board (work, family, friends)
- Without their support it will not be possible
- Find a timeframe everybody can be part of it
- Value yourself, your time and your commitment. And all these same things of your fellow participants.
*Don't take people for granted.*
- Leverage quality software, development tools, and services that a) makes it easy for everyone to participate, connect and collaberate - weekly.
b) Helps you learn, and get comfortable working with proffesional level workflows
- Rotate the mediator position
- allow for spontaneity, and organic conversations
- HAVE FUN! DON'T TAKE YOURSELF TO SERIOUSLY. Life is short and code is poetry! Stay thirsty 😀