Hi all,
I've just finished helping teach my first workshop: along with Tiffany
Timbers, I taught the version control lessons at the March 5-6 workshop
at UBC in Vancouver. I noticed, when preparing my materials, that it
seemed to be common practice to mix and match the lessons from the ones
on the main repo, but I couldn't find any reference to previous
materials/versions that other people had used to teach previous
workshops. In addition, I added some diagrams and writeups that I'd
written and found helpful in other contexts to my lessons, but I don't
yet feel comfortable making a case for those changes to be integrated
into the main repository. I'm sure this must be true for other
instructors as well!
In addition, people would refer to previous workshops they'd attended
and what was taught there, but if those materials weren't part of the
main lesson, I have no idea how to find them...I don't think they exist
anywhere central? It would be nice to have a record of what lessons were
taught at what workshops so we can all look at and refer to them,
wouldn't it?
To that end: I have a suggestion. For each lesson topic repo, wouldn't
it be nice to submit, after a workshop, your custom lessons via a pull
request, one that is not actually meant for merging directly? That way,
we'd have an archive of what was taught where, a discussion location for
instructors to leave notes about what did or did not work, and a place
for us to find (and pull, if we want) the changes that we've made for
various workshops.
To demonstrate, I made one for the git lessons Tiffany and I taught:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice/pull/62
Daisie
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