**During the video call** :

- We’ll introduce ourselves and go over the goals and structure of our course. Everyone will talk briefly about their goals for their website.
- We’ll go over the different options for building your site, like building totally from scratch to using an exisitng static site generator.
- Finally we’ll all create topics in the forum to track our development.

**During the week **: 

Gathering materials to work with, in the form of software and inspiration. Throughout the week you should gather websites you find inspiring for whatever reason, and post them in your development log.

Kick-Off!

**During the video call** :

* We'll talk about the websites that inspire people, and then go over the software they decided to use.
* We'll discuss patterns we see in both the websites and the technical architectures.
* We'll talk about what options there are for hosting your website, and the different tradeoffs.
* Finally, we'll talk about what we want to achieve with our own websites

**During the week** : the goal is to **create first page** for your site. You'll take the writing you did last week and turn it into HTML using the software you picked out! Then you'll put it online using one of the hosting options we discuss on the call.

Week 1: Putting a stake in the ground


**During the video call**: 

- We'll talk about the pages that we built for our sites
- We'll go round and screen share, showing the output as well as the source code
- We'll talk about larger scale structures and collections we might want to implement.

Week 2: Seeing some pages

**During the video call**: This is the final call! We'll look over everyone's development threads and talk about the joys and challenges of putting together our site. Then we'll talk about everyone's future plans for their internet homes.

Final Call!

**During the video call**: 
- We'll talk about how hosting and domain names work
- Share the progress we've made on our websites, and any collections or structures we made

**During the week**: 
- We'll get our websites live on the internet at a domain of our choice, and polish everything up to share during the final call!

Week 3: Packaging Things Up

Gardening Club

Pair Programming

Bi-Weekly Checkin

Bi Weekly Check-in

Check-In

Build yourself a home on the internet (a website) with a toolchain you understand from the ground up.

Internet Homesteading

This is a template for collecting the artifact resulting from this cohort — a final, publicly viewable summary of what participants learned or created during the course.

❗️**Important:** The contents of this post will appear on the cohort page, visible to everyone. Don't post anything you don't want to be publicly shared.

Please edit this topic with an artifact that makes sense for your course.

## [Artifact Title]

Replace with: summary description of what the cohort created or learned together.

This may be a final writeup, a summary of each participant's project, a link roundup to externally hosted  assignments — whatever makes sense for your course.

Note that participants can reply to this post, but only this initial post of the topic will be published to the cohort page as its public artifact.

Artifact

This is a template for an assignment you want to give participants in this cohort.

Please edit this topic with description, instructions, or anything else that makes sense for the assignment you'd like to share. The text below is just a starting point.

## [Assignment Title]

Replace with: summary description of the assignment. What are participants creating? What's the learning goal in the context of this course?

## Instructions

Replace with: details on the expected format or process for completing the assignment.

Example (for a final writeup):

- Please post a link to a Google Doc with 500 words on what you learned
- Make sure that sharing is turned on so others can comment

Example (for a photography workshop)

- Select your three favorite photos from the week's theme
- Upload them to a post here, each preceded with a one-paragraph description

Assignment

This is a template for scheduling an event — a synchronous session with the participants of the cohort.

This can be a group meeting for everyone to attend, or you can use to schedule optional office hours or one-on-one meetings.

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the elements listed below!

❗️**Important:** Once you publish this event topic, edit the topic on the forum and insert an Event:

- In the composer, hit the gear icon above the text box and select "Create an Event"
- Fill out the time and hit "Create" (you can leave the name blank), then save the topic

## [Event Title]

Replace with: short description of the event, and how to join

Be sure to include a live call link! You can insert a Jitsi link by editing the topic on the forum and clicking the video icon in the composer toolbar. Or you can user any other service of your choice, like Zoom or Google Meet.

## Details

Replace with: further details about the event. Do participants need Zoom or a Google account to join the call? Anything else they need to do to prepare?

Event

Hi all! I'm excited to get started hacking with all of you :D 

Here's a couple things to get started: 

## Introduce yourself!

Post a brief intro in this topic, letting us know what you're hoping to get out of this course. If you want, drop a couple of your favorite websites in as well!

## Logistics

We'll be using this forum heavily, so take some time to look around! If you have any questions feel free to DM me or post in this thread. 

For call's we'll be using zoom and each event will have it's own forum topic with the link.

## Start Learning!

For our first call you don't need much, just a rough idea of what you want your internet home to do for you. 

Getting Started

This is a template for adding additional information specific to this particular cohort of the course. 

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the elements listed below!

❗️**Important:** The contents of this post will automatically get published on the cohort page. That means it'll be publicly available for ANYONE, not just learners in this cohort, to see. Don't post anything you wouldn't want everyone to know (like links to video conference calls).

All *other* posts in this forum category are private to participants in this cohort. Note that each course also has its own forum space, parent to this one, that is publicly visible.

## Schedule

Replace with: outline of specific dates and times for any synchronous meetings or deadlines for this cohort.

**Please be specific** — include dates, times, timezones, and estimated length for live meetings. This is very important so that participants can make sure their schedule works before signing up.

If your meetings are regularly scheduled (for example, every Monday for six weeks), be sure to list any days when the course will deviate from the norm (rescheduling around holidays, for example).

## Amendments

Replace with: anything changes to the curriculum specific to this cohort, that deviate from or override the main course description.

## Anything Else…

Replace with: anything else about this cohort that you think is essential for participants to know! For example any particular thematic focus or learning experiments you want to explore…

Feel free to rename this section or add additional ones as needed. Or if nothing comes to mind, simply remove this section.

Notes

This is a template for your cohort to run a retrospective — collecting valuable feedback from participants that will help the course improve over time.

Please edit this topic to include most or all of the following elements — or anything else you like!

## Questions

Replace with: particular questions you'd like students to answer at the end of the cohort, aimed at helping your course improve.

The questions below are just examples. You'll get better feedback if you ask targeted questions about specific aspects of your course. Tweak these questions, or write your own!

- What did you expect to get out of this course? Were those expectations met? If not, how do you feel about the progress you made in this course (if any)?
- What specific things (moments, techniques, conversations) did you feel were most useful to learning in this course?
- What do you wish we'd spent more time on? Anything you felt we should add?
- What's one thing you'd suggest we change or remove?
- Please share anything else you'd like us to know!

Participants: you can quote some or all of these questions to structure your replies below.

## Sharing the Retro

Replace with: how the info from this retrospective will be used to improve the course. For example:

The maintainers of this course will review all feedback collected in this retrospective process. We'll think hard about how we can improve the course structure, specific processes, even particular assignments, questions, or readings.

We may follow up if we want to get more detail on anything mentioned below. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to help us improve this course — we really appreciate it!

Retrospective

This is a template for a prompt — a question or discussion topic you'd like participants to discuss or respond to.

Please edit this topic to include any details necessary to spark this discussion!

## [Prompt Title]

Replace with: the prompt itself, with as much detail as you need, and how you'd like participants to respond below.

Week 2 - Assignment

Prompt

## Course Goals

A website of your own is a wonderful thing. It's a place to anchor yourself on the internet, and to get the most out of all the network offers. This course is designed to help you build a website using tools you understand and can manipulate to make it your own. 

You could make a [digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history), or a blog, or a portfolio. During the course we'll build up the infrastructure, the writing habits, and the code, neccesary to get it working.

## Who is this for?

You don't have to be a "programmer" but you shouldn't be afraid to get your hands dirty with some code. Similarly, while you don't have to be a "writer", you shouldn't be afraid of doing some writing. We'll be doing both as we build our internet homes.

You should also be comfortable setting your own goals and making decisions. This course doesn't prescribe how your webiste should look, or a set of tools for you to use (though we'll definitely have suggestions!). 

## Length / Commitment

The course is 4 weeks long, and meets once a week for an hour. _During_ each week there are two optional two hour sessions:

1. **A Gardening Club**: A time to create for your website, writing blog posts, collecting links, or anything of the sort.
2. **Pair Programming**: Learners come with a goal or a problem with their code and pair up to solve them. At the hour pairs switch.

Each week you'll also write 250-500 words to have something to add to your site.

## Syllabus / Schedule

### Week 1: Gathering Materials

**During the video call**: 
- We'll introduce ourselves and go over the goals and
structure of our course. Everyone will talk briefly about their goals for their
website. 
- We'll go over the different options for building your site, like
building totally from scratch to using an exisitng static site generator. 
- Finally we'll all create topics in the forum to track our development.


**During the week**: gathering materials to work with, in the form of software and inspiration. Throughout the week you should gather websites you find inspiring for whatever reason, and post them in your development log.

You also need to decide what software you're going to use. The goal of this course is for you to have a set of tools you understand, but the specifics are up to you. Do you want to build everything from scratch? Or do you want to use an existing static site generator? 

Finally you need to write 250-500 words for the first of your site. It could be a manifesto for your site, a story, a daily log, or anything really!

### Week 2: Putting a stake in the ground

**During the video call**: 
- We'll talk about the websites that inspire people, and then go over the
software they decided to use. 
- We'll discuss patterns we see in both the websites and the technical
  architectures.
- We'll talk about what options there are for hosting your website, and the
  different tradeoffs.

**During the week**: the goal is to **create first page**  for your site. You'll
take the writing you did last week and turn it into HTML using the software you
picked out! Then you'll put it online using one of the hosting options we
discuss on the call.

### Week 3: Laying things out

**During the video call**: We'll check in with everyone's pages, and talk about any problems we ran into along the way. Folks will screen share and go over both the output and the "code" of their site. Then, we'll talk about different ways to organize our websites.

**During the week**: The goal is to implement multiple pages for your site, and
have a layout persist across all of them. You can 

### Week 4: House Warming!

**During the video call**: This is the final call! We'll look over everyone's development threads and talk about the joys and challenges of putting together our site. Then we'll talk about everyone's future plans for their internet homes.

## Artifacts

You'll leave this course with a finished website live on the internet, and the knowledge for how to maintain it over time.

Cohort #1

Internet Homesteading

Kick-Off!

Week 1: Putting a stake in the ground

Gardening Club

Week 2: Seeing some pages

Gardening Club

Week 3: Packaging Things Up

Pair Programming

Gardening Club

Final Call!

Bi-Weekly Checkin

Bi Weekly Check-in

Check-In

Information