Dear all, I would like to thank Sarah for contributing such valuable ideas and materials, Toby for organizing this discussion session, and everyone who attended for participating. I really enjoyed this session and I'm happy to share that I put into practise what we discussed!
Specifically, I taught the "Plotting and Programming in Python" novice lesson at a recent workshop (https://mkcor.github.io/2018-11-14-trento/). Preparing for it, I forked Sarah's repo of helper files https://github.com/brownsarahm/python-novice-gapminder-files and gave instructions for students to download it as an archive. I found this process (i.e., using IPython ‘%load’ magic) very convenient for delivering exercises. It made the whole teaching (and, hopefully, learning) experience smoother than I'm used to. Thanks again! Marianne On Nov 8, 2018 9:34 AM, "Inigo Aldazabal Mensa" <inigo_aldaza...@ehu.eus> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 08:13:25 -0500 > hugo.tava...@slcu.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > > Hi Toby, > > > > I don't think I'll make it on time for this discussion. But would > > just like to leave a few points about the idea of having the > > exercises on a document separately from the course materials: > > > > 1) During delivery it's nice that one can just project the page with > > exercises without the distraction of the rest of the materials on the > > screen. 2) For development it also means that one can change the > > exercises without touching the materials, allowing for trainers to > > more easily adapt the exercises depending on the audience, add extra > > exercises, etc. 3) Perhaps by having all the exercises together in a > > document could help to see a "narrative" in the lesson, helping to > > contextualise what is being learned as one moves along. > > > > Would be curious to know what others will think about it. > > I totally agree with your points, and I in fact do this. I have a set > of slides which consist on: > > i) One slide with every section title and a few bullets introducing > the section (in a la Overview section manner) > ii) More slides, with a different background color (dark green in my > case), with one exercise on each one. This, as you mention, presents the > exercise distraction-free and the background clearly states that it is > an exercise. > > When exercise time I just swap the terminal / jupyter with the slides. > > I saw an instructor (thanks JC Leyder!) do this in the first workshop I > organized years ago and I got totally sold by the concept! > > Cheers, > > Iñigo > > > > Cheers, > > hugo > > ------------------------------------------ > > The Carpentries: discuss > > Permalink: > > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbc1a314b0f14bce5- > Mb9eab0fbe206cf370738007f > > Delivery options: > > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription > > ------------------------------------------ > The Carpentries: discuss > Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/ > Tbc1a314b0f14bce5-M503f4ecc4ac8a46ce8695d33 > Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/ > subscription > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbc1a314b0f14bce5-M80bbfb37d6c59cbf7b1785bd Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
