I’d be keen to use Slack if this were made efficient. This would be especially good if it could be used to create a persistent forum of course alumni.
-- Dr James Hetherington Head of Research Software Development Research IT Services And Honorary Lecturer Department of Computer Science University College London Tel: 07946868834 Site: http://bit.ly/ucl-rsd Twitter: @uclrcsoftdev @jamespjh Skype: ucgajhe From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Ted Hart <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 18:19 To: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: [Discuss] Preferred communication tool used during teaching Hi all, I'm curious what people are using these days for communication during teaching. I know historically folks have used etherpad, but recently I've seen some workshops go to Slack. In light of this, I've decided to set-up a slack space for an upcoming workshop. So given the ubiquity of Slack in the zeitgeist (and likely also in the workplace) what are other peoples thoughts are using it during teaching as opposed to the traditional etherpad. I think if there were wider adoption, which I'm not necessarily advocating for, it seems that it could be folded into a more formal part of the workshop set-up process in two ways. 1). A procedure for setting up official SWC slack channels as opposed to the current ad-hoc method. Obviously these logs could be useful for text mining student questions / feedback etc (if we aren't already doing that with etherpads) 2). Given Slacks API for bots, it could be useful to maintain an official SWC bot to address common use cases (Although I'm drawing a blank on any specifics at the moment). Overall though I just wanted to take the temperature of the other instructors. I appreciate your thoughts. T
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