Editors Meeting Notes for Oct. 23, 2019

Attendees (in alphabetical order): Chris, Cory, Courtney, Dani, Justin, and Mona Time: 11:00 am                 Location: OL344 Notetaker: Justin             Timekeeper: Collective effort Notes Pop survey on our website: What’s working on the website? – working well as a reference tool for editors, layout, content What would you like to see on the website? – more contribution…

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Editors Meeting Notes for Oct. 9, 2019

Attendees: Chris, Cory, Courtney, Justin, Mona, Dani Date  Time 10/9/2019 11:00 AM Location OL344 Notetaker: Cory Stumpf – Timekeeper: Chris Ward (unofficially) 😉 What is a reasonable expectation for internal review? Course Guide components, assignment titles and marks, etc. Assessments: marks (do they add up?) / grading criteria Headings Consistency (of capitalization, titles, etc.) Check…

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Editing Team Meeting 9/25/2019

Editing Team Meeting Date | time 9/25/2019 11:00 AM| Location OL344 Meeting Notes: Attendees: Dani, Mona, Justin, Cory Regrets: Chris; Courtney Note taker: Mona Editor’s website: Log-in; Review current content; Collaborate; Determine common objectives. Free online micro-course to master the basics of OER and Creative Commons: Open Education, Copyright and Open Licensing in a Digital…

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Editing Team Meeting 9/11/2019

Call to order: 10:30am In attendance: Courtney Charlton, Naomi Cloutier, Dani Collins (Chair), Justin Frudd, Mona Hall, Paul Martin, Cory Stumpf, Chris Ward (scribe & time keeper) Dani: Welcome and new meeting format Call for note taker and time keeper: Chris Call for review of process changes this summer Chris: brief review of process changes…

Back to the Future

Welcome to co-creators Dani (darwinsfrog), Cory (corythestumpf), and Mona (mohall2015)! So, we moved back to this, our previous, wordpress site. We have ambitious plans to expand the site’s features in the future, but this will be the home of the OL Editors’ site for the next few weeks or months.

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Workflow Emails to Production

New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.

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Style Sheets

Spring is here! Thank you for your patience while I play with this new colour feature in WordPress. What Is a Style Sheet? The most basic tool for editing, and one of the most practical, is a style sheet. Most of the time the editor creates this and shares it with others. A style sheet…

Editors’ Community of Practice

The editors’ team has started bi-weekly professional development seminars. We take turns facilitating the meetings, and we co-create the content to share our expertise and fill-in gaps in our knowledge. We have not chosen a way to reify or apply the new learning, but I’m sure a creative expression of our learning will present itself…