Jon, Yes, I have had similar thoughts, and I even tried to get one or more components tied together.
The hardest problem, with respect to the standard SWC list, is that they are designed to be a smorgasbord, or dim sum, if you prefer, and so each needs to stand on its own. If you have the luxury to adapt the materials to more specific circumstances, I think you and your learners will benefit from a more consistent and coherent theme or task being present throughout the workshop. -- bennet On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Jon Pipitone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A few of us at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto > have been teaching a series of Software Carpentry-like workshops[1] > (actually some of them are exactly SWC workshops) over two weeks aimed > more specifically at researchers in our organization. Much of what we > teach is very introductory: what is programming, how to use the linux > shell, a very basic intro to R focusing on statistics, a MATLAB and SPSS > primer, using Photoshop, etc.. We do also get to a few more advanced > topics in some workshops: e.g. doing fMRI analysis in python, using a > compute cluster. > > We received feedback from learners and instructors that having more > cohesion between the lessons would be really helpful to tie things > together (currently we have a mixture of lessons with toy examples, more > elaborate worked examples, and some with only descriptions/powerpoint), > but it's disjointed: there isn't a theme or example dataset running > through the workshops. > > Has anyone tried creating lessons for several different topics around a > single example scenario? E.g. using Nelle's data from the Shell > lectures[2] to also teach R, Python, Git, etc.. How has it worked out? > Is there anything we should be wary of as we wander down this road? > > Thanks! > Jon. > > [1] e.g. https://camh-scwg.github.io/compucool > [2] http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/01-intro/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
