+1 to everything so far. I thought I was just a slow instructor: I've yet to manage to cover the shell materials in less than 4.5 hours!
On 1 April 2015 at 11:38, Bill Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep - plus a million to that, breaking things out into little bite-sized > pieces like the proposal for the Git lesson is an awesome solution. > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Damien Irving < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> That's an even better solution >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Greg Wilson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think that if you want to put a challenge in the middle of a lesson, >>> your lesson is telling you that it wants you to split it in half. >>> "Spliiiiit meee.... split me heeeerrre...." >>> - G >>> >>> On 2015-03-31 4:39 PM, Damien Irving wrote: >>> >>>> I agree with Azalee. There needs to be some standard challenges >>>> included within the lessons because (a) that will help instructors who just >>>> want to pick up the notes and run with them, and (b) some of concepts in >>>> the lessons are taught via challenge as opposed to lecture / live coding. >>>> Those challenges have to appear at the correct place within the lesson or >>>> else the whole thing doesn't work. If we adopt the approach of putting all >>>> the lessons at the end then we are taking away challenges as a tool for >>>> teaching new concepts and restricting ourselves to only using challenges as >>>> a tool for practice and consolidation. >>>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- Scott Ritchie, Ph.D. Student | Medical Systems Biology | Pathology | http://www.inouyelab.org Community Coordinator & R Instructor | Research Platforms | http://melbourne.resbaz.edu.au/ President | Bioinformatics Graduate Student Association | [email protected] Melbourne committee member | COMBINE: national group for students and ECRs in bioinformatics and computational biology | http://combine.org.au/ The University of Melbourne ---
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