I usually work from either printed notes or a tablet. For example, I deliver the shell lesson exactly as written so I teach that with a tablet open to the lessons and refer to that as I go. In the past when teaching Python I've printed my completed notebooks to refer to during lectures.
- Matt On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 03:51:04PM -0500, Andreas Mueller wrote: > > The live coding is exactly the same as in the SWC material, but it's > > not on the slides. So I'm not sure where he gets the material > > from. Is it learned by heart or does he have a printed out version > > next to him or somewhere else? > > I think folks go both ways. I've heard of folks using a separate > laptop or a split screen so they can see the lesson notes, using > note-cards with a condensed version of commands to hit, and just > reading over the lesson several times and then winging it. I think > the note-less approach makes it easy to keep a pulse on student > engagement, but a lot of time has gone into tuning the current > ordering of commands within lessons. Striking the right balance > without the prep-time to learn both the current ordering and > supporting reasoning (so you know when you should break from the usual > script) by heart will be an individual-instructor decision. > > Cheers, > Trevor > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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