Josh's Goals for the Disciplinary Commons

My overt goals:

to document and share knowledge about student learning on courses in Computer Science in two- and four-year institutions within a single geographic region.
to improve the quality of teaching in Computer Science (CS) by establishing practices for the scholarship of teaching by making it public, peer-reviewed, and amenable for future use and development by other CS educators.

My covert goals:

To have great conversations about teaching among people who love to teach. How often in our day-to-day do we get meaty conversations about the heart of what we do?
To develop as reflective practitioners, individually, mutually, and collectively.
To help one another become better teachers. We'll share best practices, and learn techniques from researchers and practitioners of teaching and learning.

Creating portfolios incrementally that we share with one another over the academic year on a monthly basis just happens to be the best way that I can see to achieve all of these goals. Course Portfolios are only the vehicle, not the point.