Hi, Can you say a bit more about the way you dealt with the personal project? I don't see how it could scale very well, if students work on their own project, so I'm curious to understand more how you organized it, and how much support the instructor gave the students.
Thanks, N On 27 October 2015 at 11:54, Steven Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all… > > [Apologies if this shows up twice. I initially sent it from a non-subscribed > address] > > While it was not a SWC course, this summer Casey Dunn and I taught a 12-day > Practical Computing summer class at Friday Harbor Labs. It was a great group > of students — mostly somewhat beginner level — and we covered regular > expressions, shell, python, R + ggplot, git, graphics, and bit of > electronics. The centerpiece (which the students REALLY got into) was a > personal project that was applicable to their own interests and which they > solved with some combination of the tools we covered. Many of the students > went from zero experience to having a script that actually gave them insight > into the real-life research back home. > > That part that might be relevant to SWC is that we just sent out a > two-month-later follow-up survey to figure out what stuck and what didn’t. I > collated the responses, and thought I would share them: > > http://practicalcomputing.org/fhl-feedback-2015 > > (Disclaimer: This is far from a formal evaluation and assessment system!) > > I found the results really gratifying. Given two weeks of their full > attention makes a big difference in how effectively you can introduce and > reinforce the lessons, and overcome mental blocks (dictionaries, for some!). > There was also a lot of peer-teaching going on after the ~7 hours of planned > lectures and exercises. Students would work into the night on their projects > and teach/learn from their classmates. > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________________________ > Steven Haddock, PhD : [email protected] > Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute > 7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644 > 831-775-1793 (office) 831-775-2095 (lab) 831-775-1620 (fax) > > * Practical Computing textbook: http://practicalcomputing.org > * Scientific publications: http://www.mbari.org/~haddock/lit.html > * Report marine sightings: http://jellywatch.org > * Bioluminescence Web Page: http://biolum.eemb.ucsb.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
