The EuroSoTL 2025 Collaborative Writing Group (ESCWG) on Decoding and Disrupting aims at making Decoding and Disrupting work more accessible to a broader audience. It does so primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) by contributing content to this wiki. Besides it is intended to be a meaningful experience for all participants.
The ESCWG is one of six writing groups organized by EuroSoTL 2025.
Suggested writing
The ESCWG on Decoding is pretty much open to all sorts of media and outlets (as long as it serves the overall goal of making Decoding work more accessible). A working plan will be drafted at the inaugural online-meeting. It should be open for adjustment.
The group of people who have planned this ESCWG has the following type of writing content in mind:
Wiki content
- Pages describing specific bottlenecks, such as e.g. Difference between sample and population. (For this type of pages a suitable degree of conciseness needs to be agreed on. The thinkable spectrum ranges from super concise as in Heat, temperature and internal energy to very detailed as in the Bottleneck Section of Limits.) We need pages on the following bottlenecks:
- Graph reading in psychology (work by Cameron et al.)
- Graph reading in physics (see Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks, p. 27)
- Bottlenecks described in The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm: Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning and Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks)
- Concept of mathematical function
- Pages featuring specific work (published or unpublished). Most likely, the best current exemplars of such a page are Group activities in interactive teaching and Limits.
- Pages explaining Decoding and Disrupting concepts and jargon, e.g. Step 3 - Modeling Mental Operations, Emotional Bottleneck.
It might be helpful if we have examplar pages for all these content categories.
Journal articles
It is expected that while working on the wiki "a view of the landscape of Decoding" will emerge. This might lead to the idea of jointly writing a review article. A likely topic might be "reading across the disciplines" as much Decoding work is on reading academic artifacts (text, graphs).
Suggestions for getting started writing activities
- Describe a bottleneck of your choice or contribute to one of the exisiting bottleneck description pages.
- Improve exisiting pages. Candidates in need are
- Adopt a writing project suggested on Pages needed.
Participants
The ESCWG is a collaborative effort of
A padlet provides a list of all participants of all writing groups.
Meetings - planning
Inaugural online-meeting
March 5th, 2025, 16:00 GMT
Agenda:
- (Peter R needs to leave at 17:15 GMT today; will be in Groningen Jun 15-20, staying at The Happy Traveller)
- Aims of this group
- Short individual intros
- Testing technology / writing prompt: "What will this writing group make meaningful for you?"
- Go to your user page, e.g. by clicking on your name in the participants list.
- Create it on the fly if necessary bychoosing one of the following templates: Empty page, Person interested in Decoding.
- Start writing.
- Getting to know each other
- Information from the ESCWG organizers (motto: The time is write):
- Work will be presented at EuroSoTL 2027. Plus: Our working group will have a poster.
- Participants are expected to attend EuroSoTL 2025. Registration is now open.
- (Regular) postings on social media are welcome. (Anybody fluent in that?)->We need a common hash tag.
- Button for writing group members?
- What do you need to come to Groningen?
- Some of us will get interviewed by organizers.
- Dates and schedule; identifying dates for online writing sessions
- Writing prompt: "What I will do next"
Online writing sessions
suggestion:
- 2-3 x 2-3 hours on block prior to EuroSoTL
- e.g. one in March, April, May
Agreed on dates:
- Thu April 24th 15:00-17:00
- Thu May 1st 15:00-17:00
- Thu May 29th 15:00-17:0
All times are GMT.
Informal check-ins
We can have regular informal check-in meetings for those who want to talk about their writing projects, need technical help etc. At the following dates Peter R. will be available for an hour or so:
- Fri Mar 7, 16:00 GMT
- Tue Mar 11, 19:00 GMT
- Wed Mar 19, 16:00 GMT
- Thu Mar 27, 17:00 GMT
- Sat Apr 5, 15:00 GMT
These dates are scattered over the days of the week on purpose in the hope that at least some dates match with the individual schedules of the group members. Zoom link will be send around per email.
Collaborative writing session prior to EuroSoTL 2025
June 17th, 2025 in Groningen
Location: Harmoniebuilding (Harmoniegebouw), Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26; Room: Marie Loke zaal
| Time | Programme |
| 9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m. | Arrival & welcome |
| 9.30 a.m. - 12.30 noon | Writing groups - morning session |
| 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. | Writing groups - afternoon session |
| 4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. | Tea break |
| 4.30 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. | Wrap-up discussion |
Dinner on June 16th
Time and location: 19:00 local time at Napoli Groningen at Astraat 9
Here is the info by the ESCWG organizers:
We are keen to have a meal out on the 16th June prior to the start of the in-person writing day on the 17th. Svenne has kindly helped to source a restaurant which caters to a range of tastes and eating options at affordable prices. The details are below and we would welcome your support in asking your group about how many would be joining us for the meal. This would be a self-paid dinner and an opportunity for delegates to meet one another in an informal and welcoming way.
Pizza at Napoli Groningen seems to be the cheapest option. Most pizzas are prices between 14 and 19 euros. There are lots of options available, so I think we can accommodate all dietary preferences. The menu includes vegetarian options, vegan options (surplus 1,50 euro) and gluten free option (surplus 2,50 for pizza and surplus 1,50 for pasta)."
Please enter your name (by March 6th), if you plan to join:
- Peter Riegler (talk) 09:11, 5 March 2025 (CET
- Siobhán Wittig McPhee
- Joan Middendorf
- Peter D
- Maire (with someone else)
- Inna
Online writing session April 24th
Admin & information
- Have you registered for EUROSOTL and the writing session on June 17th? Did you get e-mail asking for payment? NB: Early Bird Rate until April 30th. Does anybody no about the extra fees?
- The ESCWG organizers have created a welcome pack. See your inbox of today. Also available on padlet.
- Group leader meeting on May 23rd; Peter R. will participate.
- Please link to wiki (http://www.decodingthedisciplines.de) on webpages (to make it more visible).
- Models for articles on bottlenecks
- Need for further informal check-ins?
Writing
- Use break-out rooms for small group meetings and isolated writing.
- Add your writing project to Pages needed.
- Ready to go?
- Take two minutes to write down what you want to achieve today.
Wrap-up (20 min before end)
- Where have you got to? Where have you wanted to get to?
- Need for reviews/feedback?
- Suggestions for next meeting?
to do
- calendar invite for next meetings - done
- @Earle: Does Joan have to register for the writing group? -waiting for answer
Online writing session May 1st
- screen shot
- google maps
- swiching to Wikipedia interface?
Online writing session May 29th
Administrative stuff:
- Are you all set (registration, travel, accomodation, adapter for AC sockets ...)?
- Dinner on June 16th, seeCollaborative writing session prior to EuroSoTL 2025
- Time and location of in person writing session, see Collaborative writing session prior to EuroSoTL 2025
- Please answer Earle with respect to dietary restrictions for the lunch on June 17th
- Check out Welcome pack provided by EuroSoTL Organizers
Reflecting interview at last meeting
Update on writing projects, update of Pages needed
Time for writing (?) - Talking through writing pojects in groups
How do you imagine the wiki can be used?
