Big +1 to this from me. One thing I've been wondering about lately, is how much of the unique ways many of us teach the SWC material is making its way back into the repositories. Personally, there are plenty of times when I do things a bit differently, but am not totally ready to suggest we change the 'canonical lesson'; branching like Daisie suggests lowers barriers to putting ideas out there, and seeing what everyone else thinks.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Daisie Huang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Sent with Postbox <http://www.getpostbox.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- Best Regards, Bill Mills Community Manager Mozilla Science Lab
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