Thanks for putting this together, Dan, it's really great! I think one other question pair might be: + What is one need learners had that was well-met by the material? + What was one need learners had that was not well-met by the material?
That might help contributors to the repos identify where future development needs to happen. --------- Graduate Student Section of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, C1100 Austin, TX 78712-0254 Phone: 512.940.5761 On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Bill Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Dan! I think focusing on questions about if / how / why an > instructor went off script are really important for keeping those materials > iterating along; one thing to consider would be a more free-form field at > the end to prompt instructors to think about what else might need work. > This would dovetail nicely into the live instructor hangout conversations > we'll be spooling up shortly (also will be discussing live at the Mozilla > Science Lab community call this coming Thursday). > > > On 2014-09-05 7:16 AM, Bennet Fauber wrote: > >> Re Greg's recent Blog post, is it worth considering a question at >> least about which topic was best received? >> >> As a self-evaluation, I take a minute or two after every workshop to >> review and note where I thought I did the best presentation and why, >> and where I was weakest and why. Sometimes it's an off day, sometimes >> it's a topic/attendee disconnect, sometimes it's my preparation (or >> lack thereof). Not sure whether that would be appropriate for >> something like this. >> >> I also like to note whether there seemed to be anything -- topic, new >> metaphor, student question, whatever -- that got people more >> interested than others. >> >> -- bennet >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:04 AM, John Blischak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for getting this started, Dan. Some other ideas for questions: >>> >>> + For each topic they report teaching, have them also report the >>> amount of time it took and which lessons they were able to teach. >>> + It would also be informative to know how many attendees they had. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mike: >>>> >>>> Yep, Greg just told me about an existing survey. I'll take over the >>>> data >>>> collection and analysis for it. >>>> >>>> - Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Michael J Jackson < >>>> [email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Daniel, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Quoting Daniel Chen <[email protected]> on Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:07:45 >>>>> -0400: >>>>> >>>>> Hi everyone: >>>>>> >>>>>> One of the discussion points in John's issue [1] regarding adding time >>>>>> estimates and Greg's recent blog post [2] was to include a >>>>>> post-workshop >>>>>> survey for the instructors -- something that is short, but objective >>>>>> so >>>>>> we >>>>>> can track how workshops are going from the instructors point of >>>>>> view. It >>>>>> might be good to start documenting instructor feedback as swc's >>>>>> instructor >>>>>> pool increases, and can be used to supplement the proposed bi-monthly >>>>>> instructor meetings. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've done a very bad and rough mock up of what it might entail [3]. >>>>>> And >>>>>> posting on this group for 1) general feedback on the idea of a post >>>>>> bootcamp survey, and 2) any other relevant questions. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> There's also this form which instructors complete post-workshop, >>>>> >>>>> http://software-carpentry.org/bootcamps/assess/post-instructor.html >>>>> >>>>> It may be worth combining that with yours. >>>>> >>>>> cheers, >>>>> mike >>>>> >>>>> I am more than happy to add people as collaborators, just send me an >>>>>> e-mail >>>>>> of the email you want me to add you as. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Dan >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/689 >>>>>> [2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/589 >>>>>> [3] >>>>>> >>>>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rMuWJ8FrnvOWwHfI8aDVHUxDw0ZvO >>>>>> fCges2k3OliZq8/viewform?usp=send_form >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Dr. Michael (Mike) Jackson [email protected] >>>>> Software Architect Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5141 >>>>> EPCC, The University of Edinburgh http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk >>>>> Software Sustainability Institute http://www.software.ac.uk >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >>>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. >>>> software-carpentry.org >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. >>> software-carpentry.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. >> software-carpentry.org >> > > -- > Bill Mills > Community Manager, Mozilla Science Lab > @billdoesphysics > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. > software-carpentry.org >
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