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# Learning JavaScript Together in a Study Group
Rita Best & Company
Rita, Fabian, Anja, Jess, Amber, Brezo, and Karan

## Introduction
* How did you all meet?
* How long have you been meeting for?
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## Introduction
- How did you all meet?
- How long have you been meeting for?

## Individuals introduce themselves
4 Persons :)

5 Persons of our :) Fabian, Anja, Jess, Amber and Rita.
**Brezo** is traveling, and **Karan** had piror commitments.

## Questions

### Learning Group Structure
1. How do you organize your meetings:
Do you have a format is it more free flowing?

* free flow in the way of no strict scedule
* if somebody has an issue on learning or even on his everyday coding she/he can raise that any time and we try to help with that.
* but when we are learning together for a course (react / gutenberg) we developed a routine / schedule base on the course structure
* Example: Advanced Gutenberg
* 2 Chapters Video for one week
* Practical coding on the second
* alternating

2. What tools does your group use for collaboration?
* Slack Channel
* Google Hangout
* GitHub Organisation
* VS Code - Live Share

3. Do you have guests?
* When topics rise - also proactive if we find out about interesting topics - we ask people around us to help/explain the topic



4. Does your group have rules?
* No but we have best practise
* weekly meetings
* taking courses collectively
* to keep of the momentum and motivation to learn

* sort of like the ‚code of conduct‘ from WordPress Community
* value each other
* safe space - you can be vulnerable (not knowing everything about coding)

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- How do you organize your meetings:
- Do you have a format? Is it free flowing or structured?

#### How often do you meet? Where?
- Free flow - we have no strict structure learning structure. Other than we meet weekly, on a Saturday between 3/4hrs each sesssion.
- In the event one of us have an coding, or learning issue - even something from their everyday coding job she/he can raise that at any time. We offer as a group, our perspectives, support and help in solving the issue.
- but when we are learning together for a course (react / gutenberg) we developed a routine / schedule base on the
#### Course Structure
- Example: Advanced Gutenberg
- 2 Chapters Video for one week
- Practical coding on the second
- alternating

#### What tools do we use to connect our group and allow/support collaberation?
- Slack Channel
- Google Hangout
- GitHub Individual Accounts & Organisation
- VS Code - Live Share. PHPStorm
- Twitter, medium, Coding sites, podcasts and individuals

#### Do we have guests? It depends.
- When topics rise
- Or we find out about interesting topics - we ask people around us to help/explain the topic, to share their knowledge, expertise and experiences. i.e. Like React hooks, PHP, WPScripts, ESLint, working with the new
WP block editor
- WP Code standards, difficult to understand documentation, git, version control, markup etc.

#### Does your group have rules?
- No
- We meet weekly or as often as need given certin circomstances. For instance the JS-Hackathon
- Wehen we decide to take our courses collectively
- Keep each other motivated and intrested in learning the new material. We help each other through group discussion confussing or difficut areas or topics to grasp. For example: State in React
- We all work with and around the WP Community. So we come pre wired towards "acceptable behavior." We belive in, and practice both individully and collectivlly the 'WP Code-of-Conduct.'
- Value & support each other. We value each others time, participation, family and the group relationships.
- Safe space - where you can be vulnerable, be supported, experience, and learn. (You don't need to knowing everything)

### Goals and Benefits of learning groups

5. Do you have goals as a group?
* Both - individual goals:
* enable everyone of us to reach or personal goals

* The Big picture:
* creating a safe space to learn with confidence and support
* small learning group creates a intimacy that
* helps learning next to each other while
* helping to be brave admitting to have gaps


6. How has being part of this group helped?
* It helped us to keep up with learning
* stop procrastination
* Accountability –
* Continuity in learning - every sunday we meet
* Achieve more together than we would on our own
* by learning together
* by teaching the others
* by supporting each other
* by challenging each other without making the members feel uncomfortable
* by adding all the different perspectives to problem solving


7. Has being part of this group affected your coding and your life?
personal thought/opinions (2 sentences)

- personal answear on each participant


8. What do you love to give to the group as individuals?
* Apart from code we try to support each other
* Keep each other informed by posting links in Slack
* Share experience from confrerences
* or from streaming videos we watched (from conferences)

* support, help, participate,

#### Do you have goals as a group?
- Yes! Both - individual and group goals:
- enable each of us to talk about our personal goals/and results so far. Persoanl assesment.
#### The Big picture group goals:
- creating a safe space to learn with confidence and support
- small learning group creates an intimacy (that peer to peer suport with out the one-up-manship
or comdepitive presure)
- facilates learning 2 ways. 1) two person teams and as a group review. We learn along side each
other, grow and share.
- The intmacy and trust helps each individule practice more, share more and grow more, especially
where there maybe knowledge and or experience gaps.

#### How has being part of the group helped you grow?
- It has helped us to stay motivated and learning
- Reduce procrastination
- Provides accountability, especailly to the group
- Continuity in learning - we meet every Saturday. 3/4 hrs. The winter months longer (because its easier).
- Achieve more together than we would on our own
- by learning together
- by sharring
- by teaching each others
- by supporting each other
- by challenging each other without making members feel uncomfortable or stupid
- by adding all our different perspectives to problem solving

#### Hackathon, WordCamps & Contributers day
- What has been our biggest accomplishment as a group?
- What was your biggest takeaway from the hackathon?
- And how did you organize the logistics of collaborating on projects -- in teams?
- Do you think collaboration is a more successful way of tackling self-learning online? Yes! Please explain.

#### How has being part of this group affected your life?
- How has being part of this group affected coding and proffesional skills
- Personal thoughts/opinions (2/3 sentences) - personal anwser from each participant

#### What do you choose to give to the group as individuals?
- The Value of People and the relationships we build
- Apart from learning to code we're available to support each other
- Keep each other informed share links, posts articles videos in Slack
- Share connections friends or people we know and experience from conferences
- videos, and other learning material that maybe helpful to the group or individul.
We share whatever we think might be helpful to the group. Or may have experienced (from WordCamps and conferences)
- friendship, acceptance, support, motivation,

### Closing Remarks

9. What to be aware of when you are committing yourself to a learning group
* Get your support group on board (work, family, friends)
* Without their support it will not be possible
(* Find a timeframe everybody can be part of it)


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### Hackathon

10. What has been your biggest accomplishment as a group?

11. What was your biggest takeaway from the hackathon the group participated in? And how did you organize the logistics of collaborating on projects in teams?

12. Do you think collaboration is a more successful way of tackling self-learning online?

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13. What are the top 3 tips you would give others wanting to start a group like this?
#### What would be your top three takeways/tips to share with our audience -- when considering or committing to a study group?
- Get your support group on board (work, family, friends)
- Without their support it will not be possible
- Find a timeframe everybody can be part of it
- Value yourself, your time and your commitment. And all these same things of your fellow participants.
*Don't take people for granted.*
- Leverage quality software, development tools, and services that a) makes it easy for everyone to participate, connect and collaberate - weekly.
b) Helps you learn, and get comfortable working with proffesional level workflows
- Rotate the mediator position
- allow for spontaneity, and organic conversations
- HAVE FUN! DON'T TAKE YOURSELF TO SERIOUSLY. Life is short and code is poetry! Stay thirsty 😀

### Questions: Open it up to the audience/chat channel.