On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Brian Teague wrote: > Hi titus - > > Thanks for the rec! That's a neat tool -- and I really like the thought > of making a "notes" page on the workshop GitHub site afterwards.
:) > I'm curious about three things - > - Do you find that the impulse to make things "pretty" slows down your > learners? not so far - mostly they just type! but in any case my learners very rarely enter anything other than answers to specific questions on the etherpad. > - One of the things about Etherpad that I have mixed feelings about is > attribution -- the fact that each person's contributions have a > different color lets you see at a glance who's contributing. Do you > think that not having that in a hackmd.io document is a good thing or a > bad thing? :) I dislike the confusing aspect of the colors. > - One of the things I always promise my learners is that the Etherpad > will be around essentially forever (ie, as long as SWC exists.) Do you > expect the same with a hackmd document? Or is that why you transfer to > a GitHub page afterwards? I think we could spin up a hackmd too - it's open source! But yes, I think having things in a group-editable etherpad is problematic for the long term... I've seen it deleted too many times. > (I'm putting together a new workshop site today, so these things are on > my mind. (-; ) hth! best, --titus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
