Nope, you're not slow at all - I have never got through an entire unit - not once, not even close, and that's ok. As long as students leave with more than they came with :)
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Scott Ritchie < [email protected]> wrote: > +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 > --- > -- Best Regards, Bill Mills Community Manager Mozilla Science Lab
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