Using Slack to Enable Intercollegiate Collaboration in the Moodle Community
1. USING SLACK TO ENABLE
INTERCOLLEGIATE COLLABORATION
IN THE MOODLE COMMUNITY
Charles Fulton (@mackensen)
2. WHAT'S CLAMP?
Association of small liberal arts colleges dedicated to
supporting Moodle environments at those institutions
Grew out of NITLE-organized camps and workshops and a
Mellon grant
Entirely self-funded and self-governed
Hosts twice-yearly unconference-style "Hack/Doc Fests"
http://www.clamp-it.org
5. Google Hangouts means never knowing how to start a meeting.
4:06 PM - 10 Jun 2015
7 21
Jared Spool
@jmspool
Follow
INEFFICIENCIES
The Google services require Google accounts; Google
handles multiple identities poorly
None of the tools provide strong persistent non-public
group chat
6. 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 in
Slack
7. HOW DO I SLACK?
1. Create a team
2. Sign-in to Slack
3. ???
4. Profit!
20. WHAT INTEGRATES WITH SLACK?
Google Drive and Hangouts
Dropbox
Twitter
RSS
plus a couple dozen more, with an API to boot...
21. IN CLOSING
"Above all, it's a considerate program: It does things the way
you’d want it to, often without your having to tell it — and if
you want it to do something differently, it almost always lets
you."
Scott Rosenberg, Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work in
Slack
22. LINKS
Jeffrey Glusman,
Scott Rosenberg,
Tim Urban,
Andrew Wilkinson,
Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project
Slack.com
Don't provide this perk? You're doing it
wrong!
Shut Down Your Office. You Now Work in
Slack
11 Awkward Things About Email
Slack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce