Hi Doug, The onboarding sessions will be one hour. We won't be working through the lessons (that would take a day or two!). The sessions will provide enough information about the lessons so that Instructors who are already familiar with geospatial data and with Carpentry teaching practices will be able to start teaching. In particular, we'll talk about where the potential trouble-points are in the lessons (where learners might get stuck or Instructors need to know a particular trick), the overall flow of the workshop, the data that is used, and a few other things that make it different from other Carpentry workshops.
Hope this helps! Erin On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Doug Joubert via discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > I am excited about potentially hosting one of these sessions. However, I > did have a question...how long is this "onboarding" session going to take? > Are we simply working through all of the lesson? > > Thanks > > Doug Joubert > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:25 PM Erin Becker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> We are excited to announce the first release of the *long-awaited Data >> Carpentry Geospatial lessons* >> <https://datacarpentry.org/geospatial-workshop/>. As with all newly >> developed curricula, this lesson is still in ‘beta’. This means we are >> actively organizing pilot workshops and collecting feedback. The lesson >> Maintainers and Carpentries staff will continue to update and improve the >> lesson based on feedback from Instructors and learners. >> >> This R-based workshop: >> >> · introduces project organisation and management for spatial data >> >> · covers common data structures and storage and transfer formats >> >> · teaches the creation of summary statistics and >> publication-quality graphics >> >> · helps users work with and plot vector and raster format spatial >> data in R. >> >> Find more information on *the workshop homepage* >> <https://datacarpentry.org/geospatial-workshop/>. >> >> For this first release, we are looking for Instructors who want to teach >> it – we will onboard you to help you get started – and institutions who >> would like to pilot a workshop for their researchers. >> >> Sign up for an onboarding session on *this Etherpad* >> <https://pad.carpentries.org/geospatial-onboarding>. If you want to >> pilot a geospatial workshop at your institution, you can *request a >> workshop here* <https://amy.software-carpentry.org/forms/dc/request/>. >> >> >> You can also self-organise a geospatial workshop. Use *our checklists* >> <https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/hosts_instructors/index.html> >> to help you plan and organise it. >> >> >> The new lessons were developed by the Carpentry community. A big thanks >> to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for hosting the 2016 >> hackathon that kickstarted these lessons, and thanks to the many >> contributors along the way who have got the lessons ready for teaching >> broadly. Read the blog post >> <https://datacarpentry.org/blog/2018/08/geospatial-launch> for more >> details. >> >> Best, >> Erin >> >> *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8539168dc765dd99-M8c0b5285fde5a0922c570400> > -- Associate Director, The Carpentries Pronouns: she/her/hers ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8539168dc765dd99-Mede0a9f32c061e199b0b4f3d Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
