View source for Inaugural Edit-a-Thon

April 3, 2019
11-2 p.m. Pacific Time ([http://bit.ly/2XMo7W4 find your timezone])

Calling educators, students, technologists, designers, polemicists, and curious others! Join us for our first edit-a-thon event to help build Ethical EdTech into a tool that can powerfully counter the corporate-surveillance marketers. Help others find useful, ethical, educational tools relevant to their needs.

You can take part in person or online, or both—learn how below!

== Participate in person ==

You can join us with other real people in real rooms in certain places:

* '''Boulder, Colorado''' - [https://www.colorado.edu/map/?id=336#!m/193898 Institute of Behavioral Science] room 155A (12-3 pm Mountain Time)
** Hosted by [https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider Nathan Schneider]. We'll have pizza, so be sure to RSVP below so we can get an accurate count!

* '''La Jolla, California''' - UC San Diego Library, Redwood Room (11 am - 2 pm Pacific Time)
** Hosted by Erin Glass

* '''College Park, Maryland''' - [https://mith.umd.edu Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities] (2-5 pm Eastern Time)

* '''Seattle, Washington''' - University of Washington, Communications 218D (11 am - 2 pm Pacific Time)
** Hosted by Caitlin Postal

* '''Cambridge, Massachusetts''' - MIT, [https://digitalhumanities.mit.edu/ Digital Humanities Lab], 16-635 (2 pm - 5 pm Eastern Time)
** Hosted by Lisa Tagliaferri and Ece Turnator

*'''Los Angeles, California''' - UCLA IS Lab, [https://islab.gseis.ucla.edu/ Information Studies Research Lab], GSEIS Building (11 am - 2 pm Pacific Time)
** Hosted by [https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/diana-ascher/ Diana Ascher].

*'''New York, New York''' - [https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Home The Graduate Center CUNY ], Room 3317 (2pm - 5pm Eastern Time)
** Hosted by [https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives],  [https://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ The Teaching and Learning Center], and [https://www.gc.cuny.edu/page-elements/academics-research-centers-initiatives/initiatives-and-committees/the-futures-initiative The Futures Initiative ] .

*'''New York, New York''' - [https://www.barnard.edu/ Barnard], Milstein 107 (2pm – 5pm EDT)
** Hosted by [https://digitalhumanities.barnard.edu/ Barnard Digital Humanities Center].

More details on those to come.

Would you like to host a simultaneous in-person edit-a-thon? Let us know at medlab@colorado.edu.

== Participate online ==

* Live chat: [https://chat.ethicaledtech.info/ chat.ethicaledtech.info] (no account registration required)
* Twitter hashtag: #EditEdTech

More coming soon!

== RSVP ==

If you can make it, edit this section and add your name below. (You'll need to [[:Special:UserLogin|log in or create an account first]]. Check your spam folder if you don't receive an account confirmation.) Be sure to let us know how you'll be participating—online, or at one of the in-person sites.

* Nathan Schneider ([[:User:Ntnsndr]]) - Boulder location
* Erin Rose Glass ([[:User:Erinroseglass]]) - La Jolla location
* Ed Summers ([[:User:Edsu]]) - College Park location
* Sarwat Kazmi ([[:User:Sarwatk]]) - College Park location
* Jeanelle Horcasitas ([[:User:Jhorcasitas]]) - La Jolla location
* Viona Deconinck ([[:User:Viona]]} - La Jolla location
* Katy Fetters ([[:User:kfetts]]) - Boulder location
* Nima Rassooli ([[:User:Phantomnemo2]]) -La Jolla location
* Leonidas Mylonakis ([[:User:Lmylonakis]]) - La Jolla location
* Chris Werry ([[:User:cwerry]]) - Virtual
* Autumm Caines ([[:User:autumm]]) - virtual
* Jenn Kepka ([[:User:jennk]]) - virtual
* Dorothy Howard ([[:User:hexatekin]]) - La Jolla
* Adele Fitzgerald ([[:User :Adele]]) - Virtual
* Diana Ascher ([[:User:diana]]) - Los Angeles location
* Michael Murphy ([[:User:mmurphy]]) - Virtual
* Rachel Starry ([[:User:rstarry]]) - Virtual
* Geoffrey Rubinstein ([[:User:Geoffrey Rubinstein]]) - Boulder location
* Frank Lee ([[:User:Pi lover]]) - Virtual
* Laurie Hurson ([[:User:Laurhur]]) - New York location
* Caitlin Postal ([[:User:cpostal]]) - Seattle location
* Barnard DHC, featuring Nicky Agate ([[:User:terrainsvagues]]), [[:User:ktakahata]], [[:User:moacir]], [[:User:elotroalex]], [[:User:madihaz]], [[:User:ChileInTheCity]])

== Agenda ==

* 30 min: Videoconference introduction [https://meet.jit.si/ethicaledtech|on Jitsi]
** Introductions: Who is here? Where are you and what brings you here? Start with in-person sites, then to online participants
** Welcome and overview from Erin and Nathan: What is Ethical EdTech for?
** Overview of activities and form breakout groups
* 2 hrs: Edit, coordinating [https://chat.ethicaledtech.info|on chat]
* 30 min: Closing discussion [https://meet.jit.si/ethicaledtech|on Jitsi]
** How was that? What did we learn? What are some next steps going forward?
** Strategies for publicizing the project

== Activities ==

* Tools working group
** Add new tools to the repository, or add use cases, instructions, and reading materials to existing tool pages
** How can we improve the template for the page structure?
* Ideas working group
** Add articles, questions, and challenges related to ethical approaches to educational technology to our [https://ethicaledtech.info/wiki/Meta:Research Research page].
** New to this topic? Spend the time browsing the tool repository or the collected [[:Meta:Research|Research articles]] and consider sharing useful materials with others.
* Website working group
** Develop better site design, layout, branding
** Set up templates (so that [[:Template:Tool|this]] appears automatically when new pages are created
** Workflow and process for discussion and debate about entries