davidweesI'm going to create some polls today to see what people would like to see in a chat. Please respond and share if you are interested in participating.
Day of the week? This is split into two polls since I'm only allowed 4 options.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Poll ended at .
Time of day?
(There's some bias here since I live in the Pacific Northwest and would like to participate.)
≈ 11 pm GMT
≈ 5 am GMT
≈ 11 am GMT
≈ 5 pm GMT
Poll ended at .
Google has some useful GMT to whatever-timezone-you-are-in calculators that may be useful for this last poll.
Style of chat?
Slow chat = Prompt posted, people have 24 hours to respond.
Live chat = Prompts posted, people respond as soon as they can, generally multiple prompts per session
Hybrid = Prompts posted, some people participate as live chat, some people participate as a slow chat.
Slow chat
Live chat
Hybdrid
Poll ended at .
Topics? The wondering here is how much involvement from the community should there be in the topics discussed. Should a group of people decide? Should people post suggestions for topics each week? Do we want a host/moderator to decide on the topics?
Generated by the community
Decided by a regular moderator
Decided by a rotating host
Poll ended at .
The polls are over. The sample size is small, but it's a starting point.
The results:
Topic: Most people would like a rotating host to decide on the topic, but some would like this topic to be generated by the community. This seems easy to compromise on.
Style of chat: A hybrid chat where some people participate in the live chat and other people post responses to prompts within a day or so seems the clear favourite.
Day & time: People prefer Saturday at 5 pm GMT (9 am PST)
Tomorrow is too soon, so let's try for next Saturday at 9 am PST.
Topic: TBD, but probably something around introductions.
#mathchat #mtbos #mathed #mathedchat #education #mathematics
We'll have to learn how these kinds of chats can work on #mastodon. I recall a conversation about needing to follow a boost bot of some kind, so that everyone can see the posts on their timelines, even if people are posting from different Mastodon instances.
Colin the MathmoCalling @Chartodon ...
@davidwees We could try a "dry run" tomorrow, testing using a.gup.pe as a "group 'bot" to see what happens. We can rope in a few people who contributed to that original discussion (which I can re-chart) and see how workable it seems, ahead of a major push to try to get people into a chat on Dec 3rd.
@ColinTheMathmo Great idea.
Karen@davidwees @ColinTheMathmo Count me in. :-)
@karenshancock @davidwees We have this 'bot:
Mention it, and everyone who follows it gets a copy relayed to them.
We(*) may decide to use a different handle, but we can test this idea to see if it works.
(*) For some definition of "we".
Are we going to have a chat at 17:00 GMT? I have a puzzle people can work on, and we can talk about atopic for the inaugural (mostly) weekly #MTBoS #MathsChat ??
@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos I'll try to join. I'm traveling this morning so I might be in and out of the chat.
@davidwees Yes ... that was the time you were suggesting, was it not? Since it's just a few of us this time we can try for a coordinated time a little later.
Is there any time in the next 4 or 5 hours that would suit you?
@karenshancock @ColinTheMathmo @qmtbos I'm on the road now. What kinds of things do we want to test today? #mathed
Is there a reason you used "qmtbos" insteadof "mtbos" ?? I'm thinking it was probably a typo.
I think it's very much a case of seeing it the @mtbos label works to send things to everyone, so the first question is ...
Can you see this post?
I'm not mentioning you in the post, but I am mentioning the "Gup.pe" account.
I'll then reply to this post (in a few minutes) and mention you(pl) specifically.
So ... can you see this post?
@ColinTheMathmo @mtbos
Yes I can see it... I like the fact I can reply and if I forget the hashtag at the end the group is already copied in my reply! (I'm bad at remembering hashtags at the end!)
Yes I can see it... I like the fact I can reply and if I forget the hashtag at the end the group is already copied in my reply! (I'm bad at remembering hashtags at the end!)
@karenshancock Super, so every follower of @mtbos should actually be able to see this conversation.
I think @davidwees' poll suggested a hybrid live/slow chat, with a live discussion happening at a given time, but people then able to add to the discussion over the next few days.
The next question is one of topics and hosts. My experience is that each on-line discussion needs someone to drive it, but also to allow people space to discuss.
Does anyone reading this have experience of this?
@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos Yeah the a thing was a typo. I don't know how, as I thought I just replied to you??
@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos I'm happy to comoderate and help organize topics. I can put together some semi-permanent space (maybe a Wordpress blog), where we can put the topics, who is moderating, some simple suggestions for participation, and instructions on how to follow along. Not today, but by Monday night my time. #mathed
@davidwees That sounds perfect. So we(*) will need
(a) Topics for a few weeks;
(b) Co-mods for a few weeks;
(c) Blanket advertising of the existence;
(d) Clear instructions on how to join.
Have I forgotten anything?
How can I help? I can "advertise" the existence once you have a page I can point people to.
(*) By which I mean "you"
@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos I can go find the old #mathchat logs and see if there are any topics there worth revisiting. Putting together the rest should be fairly easy. Not right now though as I am on my phone.
@davidwees That would be fabulous.
Shall I now leave this with you and let you ping me on Monday or Tuesday? Once you have a page I can start to publicise it and see if any teachers want to join in.
A note, something like this needs to run for six months before you can really assess whether it's working, so we need to make sure that the topics are interesting to us, so we will keep going.
Tommaths (he/him)@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos @davidwees
The MuseumHour account on Twitter posted a thread about how they plan a #MuseumHour chat: https://twitter.com/museumhour/status/1480582142430257154
Might have some helpful tips? I've taken part in a few. They have a set time in which they share a series of pre-planned questions & participants respond directly to those.
@ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos @davidwees
P.S. yes, I can see the chat too :-)
@TeaKayB @ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos That hashtag is a good test in itself. I see only one toot with that hashtag. Presumably, no one else I follow or who is on the Mathstodon server has used the #museumchat hashtag. I only see one toot (well, now two because of this toot).
@davidwees @ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos I'm not seeing any more than that, but I think the museum community are taking longer to come over here than the maths community are! #MuseumHour is still based on Twitter.
@davidwees @ColinTheMathmo @karenshancock @mtbos no problem. I quite like the #MuseumHour format. It seems to lend itself quite well to getting people engaged during the chat itself, but allowing others to continue the conversation outside of its confines. They link to a very detailed manifesto from their Twitter profile.