Hello all,
The Carpentries Core Team wanted to provide an update on the work we are doing in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last time you heard from us, we were not able to support remote centrally-organised workshops. To build on the work that community members have been doing to share strategies and tips for working online which led to the blog post: _Tips for Teaching Online from The Carpentries Community_ <https://carpentries.org/blog/2020/03/tips-for-teaching-online/>, we have convened a task force to support our community and aid in the shift to online instruction. This task force will develop a plan to pilot online instruction of The Carpentries curricula and provide support to the amazing work that community members have been doing. As online instruction will likely be the norm for some months, the task force is committed to developing a cohesive plan that will help the community quickly start the shift and be iterated over time. The work of the task force will be focused on the creation of three key resources that we hope will guide the shift to online instruction: 1. A document summarising resources and strategies that have been shared by the community around online instruction, and other resources as the task force deems appropriate. This document should include a recommendation from the task force about how each strategy or resource is or is not useful for our pilot. 2. A project plan for implementing a pilot of online instruction of our technical workshops. This project plan should include information on how each Core Team member will be involved in this pilot, with estimates of their time contributions in hours. 3. A communications plan for launching this pilot. To learn more about the context and objective of the task force, please read the charter _here_ <https://github.com/carpentries/task-forces/blob/master/2020/COVID-19/COVID-19-charter.md>. Additionally, for ongoing updates to our COVID-19 response, including information about the deliverables outlined above, please _subscribe to our newsletter_ <https://carpentries.org/newsletter/> and follow us on _Twitter_ <https://twitter.com/thecarpentries?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>. Please email [email protected]_ if you have any questions about the work of the task force or any other aspects of our COVID-19 response. Omar Khan (on behalf of the COVID-19 Planning Task Force) *Omar Khan* Communications Manager at _The Carpentries_ <https://carpentries.org/> Pronouns: he/his/him _The Carpentries_ <https://carpentries.org/> *- We teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.* _carpentries.org_ | _Twitter_ <http://twitter.com/thecarpentries> | _Facebook_ <https://www.facebook.com/carpentries/> | _Blog_ <https://carpentries.org/blog/> The Carpentries is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives <http://communityin.org/>, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organisation based in California, USA. We are a global community teaching foundational computational and data science skills to researchers in academia, industry and government. ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tbefe934513043c1d-M2f0d4aa4186d370fc67d0b27 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
