Hi Ethan, others, I very much like the idea of this approach. At UW, we've developed a similar collaboration exercise <https://github.com/UW-Madison-ACI/boot-camps/blob/2015-01-13/version-control/git/collaborate/Readme.md>, where we have students issue and review pull requests. Generally, I play one of the parts and have another instructor play the other part as a "person behind the curtain".
My only question has to do with time constraints. Normally, this exercise occurs at the end of the second day for us (a bit of a capstone project), and is thus subject to constraints if other lessons have gone over. Did you find much more time was added by switching between instructors? If so, I assume you found the extra time to be worth the added benefit to students? Cheers, Matt On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Ethan White <[email protected]> wrote: > At the Utah State workshop this week we tried out a different approach (at > least compared to what I've seen in the past) to teaching the collaboration > section of the git lesson. We had two instructors at the front of the room > and each instructor did their piece of the collaboration demonstration on > their own computer and then passed the projector cord back and forth with > the other instructor when it was time for them to do the other part of the > collaborative workflow. > > This seemed to work really well for helping students keep track of who was > supposed to be doing what when, as we didn't end up with the kinds of > confusion I've seen before where paired students get confused about which > parts of the exercises they are supposed to be doing. > > Ethan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. > software-carpentry.org > -- Matthew Gidden Ph.D. Candidate, Nuclear Engineering The University of Wisconsin -- Madison Ph. 225.892.3192
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