On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:38:16AM -0400, Gabriel A. Devenyi wrote: > I think the root cause of this may be the final assignment for > instructor training, it's probably easiest for people to just add > material. We may need to re-spin that assignment a bit so we don't > encourage bloat.
Maybe have them go through the lessons in search of either things that can be rephrased for concise clarity, or things that can be cut altogether. There's a lot of stuff in the lessons, so help with critical editing would be great. I'm not sure how the blog post's [1]: “Instructors should be required to teach our standard lesson on a topic at least a couple of times before replacing its content with material of their own.” squares with folks adding content just after completing instructor training. Personally, I'd encourage anybody to contribute stuff that they think is an improvement, and trust the maintainers to judge how the proposed change would play out. Although it seems like that guideline is aimed more at what you shoud teach, and less at what you should contribute. I'd avoid dumping stuff into discussion.md, but I think the current consensus is to leave discussion.md management up to the lesson maintainers and then judge how useful it is after we have more experience [2]. Cheers, Trevor [1]: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/02/improving-instruction.html [2]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/issues/199 -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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