DriveBy
From ITPedia
In 2004, ITP students Christina Goodness and Meghan Trainor conceived of the DriveBy Seminars as a way to create peer-to-peer teaching at ITP during the summer. They utilized a wiki to organize the classes. On the wiki, students could sign up for classes they wanted to teach and classes they wanted to take, and since everyone is a peer, students had to volunteer to teach a class if they signed up to learn from someone else. The idea behind the seminars is that every ITP student has something they are brilliant at and something they haven't tried yet.
In the end the student organizers selected a good mix of classes based on most interest. Teachers then could decide to create class Wiki pages where resources could be listed, students could go to post questions or they could request specific topics they wanted to be covered.
There were two main goals with this project. Because ITP has such a diverse student body -- with computer programmers, musicians, artists, engineers, etc. -- there is a huge diversity in the technical skills of students in a given area. Christina and Meghan tried to create a casual atmosphere where folks could catch up in an area they hadn't quite mastered yet. The second goal had to do with harnessing the knowledge of the student body itself, which is arguably quite tremendous. Using wiki technology was a great way to identify skills people wanted to share, reveal new skills people wanted to learn and let the shared list evolve organically over a period of time.
DriveBy is peer-to-peer teaching at ITP. ITPedia is utilized to organize the workshops, you can both sign up for workshops you want to teach and workshops you want to take, you can even suggest a workshop and ask someone else to teach it. The idea is that every student at ITP has something they are brilliant at and conversely something they haven't tried yet.
Full listing of the original classes can be found in the DriveByArchives. (not currently ported to ITPedia)
Scheduling a DriveBy
The DriveBy schedule is maintained by the DriveBy Coordinator(s), currently Alex Dodge, Johnny.lu and Merche Blasco. The proposed DriveBy will be reviewed by the Coordinator, who will then post it to the official calendar. Most seminars are accepted, but they do need to be vetted first to avoid conflicts or repeats.
Click to view the current DriveBy Google Calendar (or subscribe in iCal)
(past DriveBy schedules will be posted when the old wiki has been ported)
DriveBy Notes
It is required that all DriveBy hosts post information about the topics they discussed here, as well as links to related articles and materials discussed. Here's how.
"'Fall 2011'"
2011/9/8 - ITP 101 - hosted by Spike McCue, Paul May, Michael Colombo, Eric Hagan, and Lily Szajnberg
Fall 2010
- Please note that this line-up is not absolutely set and can change depending on incoming proposals. If you have an idea for a driveby and want to arm-wrestle for a slot, email one of the DriveBy Coordinators!
2010/9/9 - ITP 101 - hosted by Second-Years!
2010/9/16 - Swashbuckling hosted by Chris Allick & Don Miller
2010/9/23 - HTTP-WTF-BBQ hosted by Greg Bornstein
2010/9/30 - Juggling hosted by M. Colombo
2010/10/7 - Advanced Media Studios hosted by Arturo Vidich & Mike Knuepfel
2010/10/14 - Math for Artists hosted by Nikolas Psaroudakis, Eric Mika, Patrick Hebron, Igal Nassima
2010/10/21 - Fugues hosted by Cyrus von Hochstetter
2010/10/28 - Pumpkin Carving Fest hosted by the Haunted House Halloween Crew
2010/11/4 - ArcGIS mapping hosted by Gabriela Gutierrez
2010/11/11 - Windowfarms hosted by Michael Zick Doherty
2010/11/18 - Firespinning hosted by Nikolas Psaroudakis
2010/11/25 - Spring Course Registration hosted by 2nd Years
2010/12/2 - Ableton Live & the Art of the Mixtape (part 2) hosted by Matt Ganucheau
2010/12/9 - Personalized Circuit Board Making hosted by Corrie Van Sice
Summer 2010
- Please note that this line-up is not absolutely set and can change depending on incoming proposals. If you have an idea for a driveby and want to arm-wrestle for a slot, email me at mikeco@gmail.com!
2010/5/20 - Introduction to 3D Modeling - hosted by Noah King
2010/5/27 - Neural Networks Are Fucking Awesome - hosted by t3db0t
2010/6/3 - Handling The Pointer In C - hosted by Roy Vanegas
2010/6/10 - Running an Art/Performance Space in NYC - hosted by Igal Nassima
2010/6/17 - Advanced Principles of Design - hosted by Zeven Rodriguez
Spring 2010
- Please note that this line-up is not absolutely set and can change depending on incoming proposals. If you have an idea for a driveby and want to arm-wrestle for a slot, email me at aiwen.wh@gmail.com!
2010/1/21 - Applied Psychonautics - hosted by Mark Triant
2010/1/28 - Version Control hosted by Greg Borenstein
2010/2/4 - You're So Vain, I Bet you Think This Song Is About You: Songwriting hosted by Milena & friends
2010/2/11 - Graphical Logic with Tims Gardner
2010/2/18 - Acoustics & Audio Engineering with T3db0t
2010/2/25 - DIY bio, AKA Garage Biotech hosted by Yasser Ansari
2010/3/4 - Wilderness Survival hosted by Matt Richard
2010/3/11 - Mold-making techniques hosted by Corrie
2010/3/24 -After-Effects workshop by Eyal Ohana (not officially driveby, but a place for some notes)
2010/3/25 - VJ-ing hosted by CHiKa, Melanie, Don
2010/4/1 - The art of making babies hosted by Matt G.
2010/4/7 - Ruby on Rails hosted by Daniel Tsadok (notes for the workshop)
2010/4/8 - Calligraphy hosted by Minette
2010/4/15 - How to Manage a Freelance Gig: from Pitch to Deliverables hosted by Nobu Nakaguchi
2010/4/21 - Fall Courses hosted by everyone
2010/4/22 - User Experience Design: Boxes, Arrows and Beyond hosted by Patrick Grizzard
2010/4/29 - Swan Song 2010 hosted by Jorge Just
Fall 2009
Information and sign-ups for Fall 2009 drivebys
2009/9/10 - ITP 101 - hosted by Sonaar Luthra
2009/9/17 - Math for Artists hosted by Elie Zananiri
2009/9/24 - Chipmusic hosted by Jeremiah Johnson A.K.A. Nullsleep
2009/10/1 - ITP30 DriveBy hosted by Sonaar Luthra & Christina Goodness
2009/10/8 - Copyright, Copyleft, Copywhat? hosted by Lee-Sean Huang
2009/10/15 - Ralph hosted by Jorge Just
2009/10/22 - Designing Better Concepts hosted by Noah King
2009/10/29 - ITP Haunted House hosted by y'all
2009/11/5 -
Summer 2009
For some reason there's a separate page
2009/6/11 - EAGLE hosted by Tymm Twillman
2009/6/13 - Soldering Workshop hosted by Tymm Twillman
2009/6/18 - CSS and HTML hosted by Jelani Jani
2009/6/25 - MAX MSP hosted by Paul Paradiso
2009/7/30 Hackintoshing! hosted by Corey Menscher
Spring 2009 2009/1/22 - Processing In Eclipse hosted by Matt Parker
2009/1/29 - Ableton Live hosted by TedBot
2009/1/22 - Getting Things Done hosted by Jonathan Swerdloff
2009/2/12 - Jazz hosted by Ari Joseph
2009/2/19 - Introduction to Chuck hosted by Mike Clemow
2009/2/26 - Open Sound Control hosted by Mike Clemow
2009/3/5 - Terminal hosted by Anderson Miller
2009/3/12 - GoogleApps hosted by Anderson Miller
2009/3/26 - Salsa Night hosted by Marco Castro, Lina Maria-Geraldo, Jason Rosado & Mustafa Bagdatli
2009/4/2 - Starting Your Startup hosted by Derek Chung
2009/4/9 - Back it Up hosted by Thomas Robertson
2009/4/16 - Wearables Basics hosted by Amy Khoshbin
2009/4/23 - Mystery Science Theatre hosted by Matt Parker
2009/4/30 - Swan Song hosted by David Steele Overholt
Fall 2008
2008/12/11 - 4in4 hosted by Steven Lehrburger & Caroline Brown
2008/12/04 - Easy Javascript with jQuery hosted by Daniel Tsadok
2008/11/20 - Lucid Dreaming hosted by Karla Calderon
2008/11/06 - Library Research hosted by Caroline Brown
2008/10/23 - Introduction to Python hosted by Adam Parrish
2008/10/16 - Object Oriented Programming hosted by Matt Parker
2008/10/09 - web programming overview...macro concepts hosted by Taylor Levy
2008/10/02 - Math for artists who now need to program hosted by Elie Zananiri
2008/09/18 - Intro to iPhone Development hosted by Lucas Longo ('08)
2008/09/11 - I Don't Know What You Did Last Summer hosted by Corey Menscher & Elim Cheng
2008/09/04 - ITP101 hosted by Corey Menscher
Summer 2008
2008/07/11 - Spring Application Framework hosted by Matt Parker
2008/07/02 - Using Ladybug 360 Degree Video Camera hosted by Gian Pablo Villamil
2008/06/19 - Ruby On Rails Intro hosted by Thomas Chan
2008/06/05 - Video Projection hosted by Brian Kim
2008/05/30 - Foundations of Web Development hosted by Corey Menscher
2008/05/22 - Getting Things Done with GTD hosted by Jonathan Swerdloff
