Dear April, Aleksandra, Thanks for your responses. Also from a conversation we had yesterday it seems like the practice of mixing and matching is much more prevalent than originally anticipated.
My feeling is that there are loads of fragmented but overlapping conversations happening in small groups in the community that might benefit from opening up and letting the community know that these conversations are happening, and also inviting them to join the conversations. We should be careful of exhausting our community with surveys. Looking forward to hearing more from people who are thinking about these things, specifically in the light of what the various Carpentries offer that differentiate them from each other and what the value is in keeping these communities separate - on paper at least? Thanks, Anelda On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 5:20 PM, April Wright <wright.apr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Anelda et al., > > I find branding really confusing. A few of us recently formed a committee > to look at canonical pathways to getting through the material. Right now, > we're focused on mixing and matching within lesson sets: > > - Are instructors dropping certain episodes from a lesson set? > - Are they replacing it with something else? > - Are they bringing in material from other lesson sets or > organizations, or completely non-SWC materials? > > There should be a survey going out sometime soon on this, and you can see > the notes from our recent meeting here > <http://pad.software-carpentry.org/swc-pathways>. Even without survey > results, I think it's entirely clear that there's mixing and matching > happening from the finest scale (the episode level), up through the whole > workshop. > > As a maintainer, I'm just happy when the lesson I maintain has been useful > to someone. But as an instructor, I haven't organized a workshop at my new > institution because I don't think there's a lesson set that will work for > my learners, and be on-brand. And that's kind of unsatisfying - I think it > would be great if we had more reach into institutions like mine (non-R1; > master's granting; primarily undergraduate). I still use a pretty > significant amount of Carpentries and Carpenters-adjacent material in my > courses and lab onboarding/continuing education, and I know others do as > well. But off-label usage is much harder to track for annual reports and > other demonstrations of the spread and impact of Carpentries materials. > --a > --------- > Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University > Biology Department > 403 Biology Building > 2400 N. Oak St > Hammond, LA. 70402 > 512.940.5761 <(512)%20940-5761> > https://paleantology.com/the-wright-lab/ > <http://wrightaprilm.github.io/pages/about_me.html> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Greg Wilson <gvwil...@third-bit.com> > wrote: > >> On 2018-03-27 5:09 AM, Anelda van der Walt wrote: >> >> Right now I'm putting together a workshop where I would like to teach >> >> - DC Data organisation in spreadsheets >> - DC Ecology R >> - SWC shell >> - Steve Bond's derived Github/git lesson - >> https://github.com/biologyguy/git-novice >> <https://github.com/biologyguy/git-novice> >> >> What should I call this? >> >> >> "Helpful" - or if you want to be long-winded, "the best possible fit to >> the learners' needs". >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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