Meeting notes: 28th July 2021
Present: Katie, Adrian, Daryl, Allison
Summary: Reviewed website, speaker notes, talked about hand-off prep and process
Things I want to report/discuss:
- Website: https://www.notion.so/katiesavv/Bringing-Contemporary-Physicists-to-the-Classroom-30ec95268d3341988801c8e3211655d7
- Structure of website navigation
- Amount of information
- Platform and hosting
- Hand-off
- Structure of documentation
- What to leave to be done by other contributors
- Speaker notes
- Depth and Quality
Summary of discussion points:
- Speaker notes in their current form are good. Speaker notes should digest the research in a way that makes the information accessible, and lowers the ‘use barrier’ as well as making it accessible to non-teaching users who wish to learn directly from the slides on the website.
- Future idea(?): solicit graduate students to either create slides or write up speaker notes for already-made slides, either by reaching out individually or by having a ‘hack session’ where people can come and work on it together.
- Make a PDF version of slides available (both on the home page and on individual researcher pages)
- Instead of including syllabi for McGill courses in the database, simply link to the McGill Physics undergrad courses webpage for people who want to learn more about what each course teaches. Include this as a link adjacent to the database.
- Restructure the home page such that the slides are accessible without scrolling. Move the slide database further up, and reduce the number of featured researchers while including a ‘see more’ option to extend the database. It might also be useful to have some buttons hovering in a horizontal bar for clearer navigation to important sections of the webpage. Maybe even include all of the ‘about us’ and ‘use’ information in a separate page included in the menu bar.
- Instead of having a dedicated resources page, link to a well-maintained resources page (a physics education researcher?) in the ‘about us’ section.
- Host the website on the physics domain. Contact Juan and Kim about finding a domain and a suitable spot to feature it.
- Create a contributors section where all contributors are acknowledged and include a form where people can submit either slides, speaker notes for slides, or both.
- Include my name somewhere on the website !!