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Quill's Teams

Every contributor participates as a member of a team. Projects are arranged into teams, and people may cooperate on multiple teams.

Homepage

Homepage
		The Homepage team is responsible for designing all of the static public pages.
		Status: Designing a new set of graphics for the homepage, and then redesigning the links.
		1. Create new graphics for the homepage (Emily).
		2. Add static page: professional development.
		3. Update FAQ with table of contents and # links.
		4. Add drop down menus to navigation bar.
		5. Add quill.org/lessons page with a list of all lessons.

Lesson Design

Lesson Design
		The lesson design team is responsible for designing the lesson experience.
		Status: Re-designing the CSS for the practice questions page.
		1. Add blue dots to internal nav bar.
		2. Add shadow behind the boxes. Remove the blue background color.
		3. Add thin borders to boxes in Practice Questions.
		4. Print the incorrect answer when a student gets a practice question incorrect.
		5. Fix the purple color bug when editing words in stories.

Classroom Management

Classroom Management
		The classroom management team is responsible for designing and building the student and teacher profile pages.
		Status: Building the password reset functionality.
		1. Enable the reset my password.
		2. Enable teachers to reset their students password.
		3. Enable teachers to delete students.
		4. Enable teachers to create accounts for students, with naming convention.
		5. Enable teachers to assign lessons to individual students.

K12 Lessons

K12 Lessons
		The K12 team is responsible for building all of our Common Core lessons.
		Status: 42 lessons have been built covering grades 1-8. Contribute lessons at the Quill Wiki.
		1. Write parallel structure lesson (Paul).
		2. Write which vs. that lesson.
		3. Proofread all of the materials.
		4. Restructure all of the lessons.
		5. Embed a mix of errors into stories.

Community Outreach

Community Outreach
		The Community Outreach team is responsible for communicating with teachers and receiving feedback.
		Status: Reaching out to teachers through Twitter. Preparing professional development materials.
		1. Connect with teachers through #EdChat, #EdChatRI, #SunChat, #EdTechChat
		2. Connect to teachers through Coursera Blended Learning course.
		3. Prepare professional development video.
		4. Write newsletter to teachers.

Contributors

Natural Language Processing

Game Design

Optimization

Code Testing

Code Review

College Lessons

Content Review

Quill's Contributors

	Peter Gault
	Start: 3/07/2013
	Teams: Homepage, Contributors, Community Outreach , Classroom Management, Lesson Design, Content Review, Game Design .
	Interests: Designing interactive learning experiences, project management software, collaborative learning, board game design
	Links: Homepage, Reddit Profile

	Quinn Shanahan
	Start: 3/07/2013
	Teams: Lesson Design, Classroom Management, Optimization, Testing Environment, Code Review
	Interests: ux/ui, node.js, ruby, rails, elastic search, postgresql, git, d3.js, neo4j
	Links: Homepage, HoneyCo

	Michael Zemel
	Start: 4/25/2013
	Teams: Optimization, Testing Environment,
	Interests:
	Links:

	Paul Hartman
	Start: 6/03/2013
	Teams: K12 Lessons, College Lessons, Content Review, Community Outreach
	Interests: Interactive Learning, Japanese
	Links:

	Laura Gibbs
	Start: 7/1/2013
	Teams: College Lessons, Community Outreach
	Interests:
	Links: G+ profile,

	Collin Cowdery
	Start: 8/05/2013
	Teams: Game Design, K12 Lessons, College Lessons, Community Outreach
	Interests: Japanese, Economics, Board Game Design
	Links:

	Duncan Smith
	Start: 11/5/2013
	Teams: Contributors, Homepage, Optimization
	Interests:
	Links: Homepage

	Jesse Horne
	Start: 11/7/2013
	Teams: Optimization
	Interests: JavaScript
	Links:

	John Jackson
	Start: 11/9/2013
	Teams: Homepage, Lesson Design
	Interests: UI Design, HTML/CSS
	Links: Dribble Profile

	Emily Jones
	Start: 11/11/2013
	Teams: Homepage
	Interests: Graphic Design, Illustration
	Links: Homepage

	Cotter Phinney
	Start: 11/11/2013
	Teams: Classroom Management
	Interests: UX, Rails
	Links: Homepage