USING SLACK TO ENABLEINTERCOLLEGIATE COLLABORATION

IN THE MOODLE COMMUNITYCharles Fulton (@mackensen)

WHAT'S CLAMP?Association of small liberal arts colleges dedicated tosupporting Moodle environments at those institutionsGrew out of NITLE-organized camps and workshops and aMellon grantEntirely self-funded and self-governedHosts twice-yearly unconference-style "Hack/Doc Fests"

http://www.clamp-it.org

COLLABORATION IS HARDDifferences between you and your inter-institutional

colleagues:

1. Institution2. Schedule3. Tools

EXISTING TOOLSMoodle forumsRedmineJabber/XMPPGoogle DriveGoogle HangoutsTwitter

Google Hangouts means never knowing how to start a meeting.4:06 PM - 10 Jun 2015

7 21

Jared Spool @jmspool

Follow

INEFFICIENCIESThe Google services require Google accounts; Googlehandles multiple identities poorlyNone of the tools provide strong persistent non-publicgroup chat

WHAT'S SLACK?"The prodigal child of IRC and Gmail, Slack is, primarily, a

group-messaging tool with a memory."

Scott Rosenberg, Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack

HOW DO I SLACK?1. Create a team2. Sign-in to Slack3. ???4. Profit!

WHAT CAN I DO IN SLACK?

ASK

ANSWER

Low barrier to entryConducive environment

.

FILTER

Organize discussions thematicallyParticipate at your discretion

REMEMBERFind peopleFind resourcesFind out what's going on

WHY IS SLACK BETTER?

SPEED

SERENDIPITYSlack killed standing meetings

CONTINUITY"Since Slack does mobile and notifications right..."

Jeffrey Glusman, Don't provide this perk? You're doing itwrong!

EXTENSIBILITY

WHAT INTEGRATES WITH SLACK?Google Drive and HangoutsDropboxTwitterRSS

plus a couple dozen more, with an API to boot...

IN CLOSING"Above all, it's a considerate program: It does things the wayyou’d want it to, often without your having to tell it — and if

you want it to do something differently, it almost always letsyou."

Scott Rosenberg, Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack

LINKS

Jeffrey Glusman,

Scott Rosenberg,

Tim Urban, Andrew Wilkinson,

Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle ProjectSlack.com

Don't provide this perk? You're doing itwrong!

Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work inSlack

11 Awkward Things About EmailSlack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce