User:Sputniza/Interview test

About the consusion with the 'name', either th extension of the Education Program or the course page system ...
I'm familiar with both [..] but probably most professors, who aren't familiar with Wikipedia or Mediawiki would be more familiar with the term 'course page system'. But either way works for me.

What, if any, experience did you have with Wikis before starting to work with the extension
A lot. I've been studying and using Wikipedia since about 2006 and held my first class 2011, so a few years.

What, if any, experience did you have in using IT in your teaching before?
Well, I teach media studies, so digital media is a big part of it. I used computers, of course, but I never had a whole assignment on a website. We had moodle as a course management system and that's all.

What, do you find, makes educators interested in working with the CPS?
I think .. , that sounds kind of simple, but that it exists - if I were teaching with Wikipedia or thinking about it and I found out, that there is this whole system. that's build just for teachers, I would ..(?) .. to explore what this is.

How often and how intensively did you use the course pages?
I feel bad about it, because I work here now, but I didn't use it as much as I thought that I would. In fact I didn't use it at all for the first course that I taught. I made my course page on just the user subpage. And when I did use it for the most part I used it just to be part of the program, just to get the support that's there. I redirected to my user subpage and I did use it to track student activity sometimes, but I'm already comfortable with watch lists. so I frankly didn't use it as much as thought that I would. But when I designed my first course I was not yet aware of the existance of the extension, I knew that the Education Program was there, I think I was aware of ambassadors, but by the time that I found out that the course page extension existed, I had already kind of designed everything and so it seemed particularly difficult - not in a technical sense - but just information scattered everywhere, so that I wasn't sure, what would be worth me doing. Because I already had designed everything.

Which other tools of communication except the course pages did you use outside of the classroom? (e.g. Mail, Chat, other wikis, Intranet) Please, describe the advantage of doing so!
E-mail, I had used google chat a couple of times with students and moodle, again.

What was the greatest positive impact of the extension on handling your courses?
It's hard to answer, because again, I din't use the extension as much, as I should have, I would say - the first thing that comes to mind, that seems like the most positive impact, is that it gave us some organisational definition, like it created a central place on Wikipedia, at which now we had information about the class, at which students could go to and click on a button, that says 'enroll' and be part of that class and have a way to show that they are doing this thing and for me to also kind of heap all that together without just having keep track of a bunch of users myself. The activity feed was kind of interesting and I think that this was also useful to have there to signify to volunteers and people within the program what I'm doing, in order to attract help or give people information if I wanted to ask for help.

What have been the biggest blockers - in terms of the extension*?
I'm just gonna base it on my early experience rather than speaking from my kind of privileged point of view now, but in my earliest experience I found that the information about the extension was not clear and not obviously available - in terms of how to use it, as well as, what it could do, how to use it effectively especially. I felt that it was kind of on me to go find all bits of information and put it together. This was few years ago and it is of course different now, but I think that's where I have to base that on.

What do you do when you run into technical issues
I wouldn't say that I ran into technical issues, it was more a matter of not really having a good idea about how best to use it. It wasn't that I wanted to do something and I just couldn't figure out how to, I din't see all the things that I could do, I guess.

What additional features would be most desirable to you?
This is another questions, where by working for the foundation I have kind of a privileged point of view, but one of the things that I really wanted, is being worked on right now, I believe, which is a mechanism that allow the community to very easily help out classes. So when I was not teaching, being sympathetic to teachers with Wikipedia, I would sometimes search out articles where students were working and to see if there is any way I can help out. Maybe .. (?) on the talk page. Maybe fix some minor formatting things. So what I really wanted was a way to either use the category system or some other kind of page to organise tasks that the community apart from the class could help with. And my idea a while ago, was based on categories of allowing more parameters and categories based on the educational assignment template, that goes on (?) talk pages, but it sounds like what Sage was talking about was categories for things like classes needing copy editing or typo .. just minor sorts of details that people can help put with. I think that's a great idea. That would have really helped me. I go with that.

What changes in the current system would be desirable to you?
(little unclear, what is considered. the scope .. including the dashboard development or apart from it?) Again, I guess I have to go to when I was doing it, one thing that I really wanted, was for it to do a better job tracking all student edits versus just student edits to the article that they have selected or in a certain name space, I can't remember exactly what my objection was. We do have the dash board, it's sort of beta version, I think, which does address that somewhat. I would be interested in seeing any edits made by a student enrolled in a course.